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Re: Lunches

Lawrie H
Breakfast 4 chocolate digestives


Ah, chocolate digestives, I knew there was something I hadn't packed! I will have to buy some along the way

Re: Lunches

Jean
Better luck with the Munros this year, Jeremy - but pack your axe & crampons. Eastern half of the Mamores was plasterd last weekend, fresh on top of hard, (tho' gorgeous sunshine) and the 4000-footers even more so, and there's more forecast for this weekend and next week.

Will send you some pics by e-mail if you wish!


Noooo ... if it's snow on the tops up there, I stay low and go by way of Kinlochleven. I'm not carrying crampons and ice axe all the way across ... I'm trying to shed weight, not gain it. Plus, I don't actually have any ice-axe training.

I'll be carrying emergency snow grips - but not with the intention of deliberately going into places where I'll need to use them!!

Re: Lunches

I did have my emergency microspikes in my pack last weekend, Jeremy - but they balled up pretty fast, and would have been useless on those steep snow slopes without an axe. I kicked steps with my boots up the first one (aided by someone who had gone before).....then thought how daft, found a different way down, and changed my plans. Trouble is, you don't really see the snow from the glen below: the smaller hills in front block the view.

You'd actually be fine at the west end - Mullach nan Coirean and Stob Ban - but for example the Devil's Ridge (which I had planned but avoided) was apparently icy and snow increases eastward.

Re: Lunches

Freddy Mallaig cadre
Hi Byan
I may have misrepresented my cunning plan. I do take a slab of pemmican with me for those morning breaks.
David - Jarlsberg and Macadmia's nommmm- There'll be on my shop list tomorrow.
Jeremy- tricky- if our paths cross you must try my home brewed Pemmican - not a hint of glactose or gluten - pure jet fuel-where do you start from?


I couldn't imagine you going all morning without eating something

Pemmican! I had to look it up, interesting substance!