Hello Alan, hello Robin,

Just to say thank you to both of you, for the accommodation in Fort Williams, the ride to the head of the trail, and of course for CIC Hut.

Our trip was OK, with very good weather at the beginning and awful conditions at the end with rain up to the top of Ben Nevis.

Everybody was happy and enjoyed the hut. When we left the hut there was nobody inside. We took down rubbish that precedent groups had hidden behind some stuff in the entrance. When we arrived on the Sunday at noon, we left our packs inside the hut and went climbing except on client. He reported us that someone from a precedent group was very mad at us because we were not supposed to get inside the hut before 16 PM. I apologize if we did wrong.

Once again I loved Ben Nevis and would be happy to come back again next year.

With my clients, we could climb the following routes :

Sunday : up to the hut, Indicator Wall.
Monday : Green Gully, down No 4, The White Line, down No 2, Comb Gully Buttress
Tuesday : Observatory Ridge, down Tower Gully, Satanic Verses
Wednesday : The Cascade Expert Choice, down No 4, Creag Coire na Ciste Central Gully, down No 2, Comb Gully
Thursday : Very bad weather, heavy rains and strong wind
Friday : same weather, not so easy to cross the river to come down !

Remi Laborde and Christian Ravier climbed with their groups Garyloo, Point Five, Smith’s Route, Tower Ridge, two routes on Little Brenva, Green gully.

I particularly loved Observatory Ridge, such a nice route, very complete, always different, with great ambiance. Satanic Verses was poor on ice on top, we had a difficult passage for the arms and spirit on the upper part !

I send you some pictures if you wish for the blog.

Many pictures of the Pyrenees and the conditions in the mountains on my blog

Thanks, wish you to have a good time on the mountains.

Remi


Monday 18th. Climbers going down

Tuesday 19th. Climbers on Point Five, from Observatory Ridge

Monday 18th. Guillaume Le Pape, Green Gully

Sunday 17th. Laurent Richard, Indicator Wall


Wednesday 20th. Guillaume Le Pape. Comb Gully

Monday 18th. On top of Green Gully

Tuesday 19th. Happy Laurent Richard, Observatory Ridge right end


Alain Raymond and Guillaume Le Pape, Observatory Ridge right end

Tuesday 19th. Laurent Richard, Observatory Ridge right end

Wednesday 20th. Laurent Richard and Guillaume Le Pape. The Cascade, Expert Choice


Tuesday 19th. Guillaume Le Pape. Satanic Verses

Tuesday 19th. Remi Thivel. Satanic Verses

Wednesday 20th. Guillaume Le Pape. Creag Coire na Ciste. Central Gully

Thursday 21st. Wet and windy !

Thursday 21st. Big river from the hut