Hi,
My wife and I were up Craig Meggie on Friday (12 Aug 2022) to head out on the speedwing. We met a hill waker who we started chatting to about the hill and thing you can do up it, flying, skiing, climbing, etc. We were yapping about the awesome ski runs we had had over the years at Craig Meggie, one of which was the same day you were up for a walk... I had mentioned how one year we had to put in a pitch point and abseil down as the whole gully had split with the weight of the snow and tore a 8-12m gap in the whole thing. After a minute he was like, wait a minute, but I'm sure I was reading a post in walk highland last night that had that photos in it, someone had spotted you in the gully.. The dates seemed to line up with the dates he mentioned. So I just looked up walk highland to see if I could find the photos... Yep it is us! Haha..
So we're still alive!
We had spotted the big gap before going up, but decided we could probably jump it, if not I had a rope with me so no worries. Once we got to the top and skied in down to the crack, it was a tad bigger than expected.. so we decided to go for the abseil over the jump.. It took a while to get down and over it as to get the kit down we diced it was easier to cut a set of steps from the bottom up to the top of the side of the crack (where I'm crossing in the first photo)... Still an excellent day out on the skies at Craig Meggie!
I found four photos of that day out.
Anyway have fun and enjoy the hills, might see me and the wife stuck somewhere else, haha..