Long time no post, and then a quick posting....this may be more typical, at least unless the more inhabited regions further south. a quick update to fast forward to Kyleakin on Skye. As per Gill's posting lots of hard goibng with icy snow, soft melting snow and some high winds, but on balance very lucky with the weather so far. Have now done all the summits north of the Inverness to Gairloch road, and not had any wet grim days (apart from overnight a few times, which is doubly satisfying when it stopped. first night in the Fannichs after Gill last departed was very grim with heavy snow falling...however mindless optimisim was rewarded the following day!). Spent five days camping, first in the fannichs and then taking a loop north and east to do the peaks previously missed out due to heavy going. After that a stay at the Dundonnel hotel (again very stormy night - extra distance outweighed by staying dry!) and then down through the great wilderness of letterewe and fisherfield to emerge at Kinlochewe and pick up the bike left there a week and a half ago. A few days delat was probably useful too. An Teallach could have been (too) scary a few days previously as well but was ok as the snow was melting and so good and soft to kick into.

Just finished a long day cycling to Skye to meet Chris tomorrow for Blaven, then Bob Sunday to Tuesday for the main ridge traverse, then if any bits missed out due to bad weather might be able to rope in Chris again to catch up. Hopefully have good conditions for this as a) its most technical part and b) there were a lot more hills on the way over than I thought there would be (more pushing the bike). Anyway, after that back to Torridon for some hopefully less snowy epic days with Gill again...