Heart of the Highlands - May

Guide - May
Customers - Allen, Claudia, Dolly, Edward, James, Janice, Robert C, Robert P
Conditions - Mostly fine with one downpour day and a whiteout on Ben Macdui

Ben Nevis Weekend May II

Guide - Jon (Ben Nevis), Gary (Glen Nevis)
Customers - Candace, Marisa, Matthew, Suzanne
Conditions - Hot and muggy on the way up Ben Nevis, cold on the summit, baking on the way down followed by a better walking day in Glen Nevis

Custom Skye Trip May

Guide - John O
Customers - Lyn, Carl, Jeanne, Norbert
Conditions - Overcast but dry(ish)

Big Highland Tour May

Guide - Geordie
Customers - Alison, Anthony, Billie, Susan
Conditions - Colder than usual for May

Ben Vrackie by Train Day Tour

Guide - Jon
Customers - Eli, Kelly
Conditions - Everything including constant hail on the way down before a quick half of Moulin Light at the Moulin Inn followed by a dash downhill to Pitlochry station with 10 minutes to spare

Ben Nevis Weekend May

Guide - Gary
Customers - Christel, Jurgen, Susan
Conditions - Gloriously sunny both days, with a good covering of snow still on Ben Nevis. The skinny dipping in Glen Nevis on the Sunday was slightly extreme!

Terry's Skye Munros

Guides - Martin followed by Andy
Customer - Terry
Conditions - Everything from morning ice melting away in early Summer sun followed by rain and wind for 10 out of the 11 Cuillin Munros

Alison's Last Skye Munros

Guide - Ian
Customer - Alison
Conditions - Great day Monday followed by challenging weather for Cuillin scrambling

Skye Discovery May

Guide - Peter
Customers - David, Ellen, Frank, Kristine, Mary, Rachael, Trish
Conditions - Usual Skye mixture!

Blaven - Monroe on a Munro

Guides - Jon & Isabelle
Cutomers - David, Ellen
Conditions - Great sunny bank holiday Monday walking up the steep and spectacular "other Skye Munro"

Ben Nevis Day Tour

Guide - Jon
Customers - Jo, Jess, Rob, Sam
Hard to believe (but not really) that just a week after the blizzard, white-out kilt-wearing Tartan Army fundraiser I would go back up there in glorious sunshine, with awesome views of the surrounding hills, most still capped with snow. Ace!

Tartan Army Kilt Walk

Tartan Army Kilt Walk
Jon walked with Andrew Ness, Andrew Cook, Chris Duffy, Paul & Simon Johnston plus Ramone and a load of Scottish football fans (The Tartan Army)

20 miles on the West Highland Way starting at the top of Glencoe, up and over the Devil's Staircase in the dark to Kinlochleven followed by the long walk over to Glen Nevis before an ascent of Ben Nevis, still with full-on winter conditions on the summit

An ace (and challenging) trip in aid of the TACC Children's Charity

http://www.justgiving.com/tartanarmyness

Lowther Hill Half-Day Tour

Guide - Jon
Customers - Emily, Katja
Conditions - Cloudy

This was the first ever half-day tour to Lowther Hill, Scotland' Highest Pub Walk. You would expect the highest village in the country to be somewhere in the Highlands, Tomintoul perhaps, but in fact Scotland's highest villages are Wanlockhead and Ledhills in the north-east corner of Dumfries & Galloway, 50 miles south west of Edinburgh. It is great walking up a 700meter mountain with wide ranging views, however on this day Emily, Katja and I had only thick hill fog for company. And a load of white mountain hares.

Skye Discovery April

Guide - John O
Customers - Jane, Mark
Conditions - Usual unpredictable mixture

Ben Nevis Weekend Easter

Guide - Gary
Customers - Akbar, Bruce, Keith, Lucy, Peter with Louise & Jo along for Ben Nevis
Conditions - Mixed wintry for Ben Nevis Saturday, gloriously sunny for Glen Nevis Sunday

GARY'S BLOG

Skiing the Pentlands

Not a Walkabout trip - but we were just having fun on the hills you can see from the office

New Year to Spean Bridge and Invergarry

Guides - Jon, Ian
Customers - Elvan, Nina, Sally, Ranald
Conditions - Winter Wonderland!
Day 1 - Devil's Staircase in Glencoe and a Hogmany celidh in the evening
Day 2 - Creag Meagaidh
Day 3 - Buchaille Etive Beag/walk in the woods
Day 4 - Glen Nevis


Winter Skills Course with Ian at Buachaille Etive Beag

Guide - Ian
Customers -Claire, Lulu, Mike, Martin, Steve, TipTop, Tamsin, Ville
Conditions - Wintry
This was a beginner's Winter Skils day covering ice axe arrest and walking with crampons - however they also ended up igloo building and looking at avalanche danger

Winter Skills Course with Gary at Nevis Range

Guide - Gary
Customers - Andy, Al, Duncan, Jen, Lindsay, Simon, Sophie, Tony, Victoria
Conditions - Great winter's day, slightly overcast with a wind that strengthened in the afternoon
Gary's blog

Blacks and Millets on Ben Lomond

Guide - Geordie
Customers - Chris, Dan, Joe, Nick (Directors and Area Managers of Blacks Leisure Ltd)
Conditions - Wintry