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more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!


by mrssanta » Wed May 16, 2012 3:15 pm

Munros included on this walk: Inaccessible Pinnacle, Sgùrr Mhic Chòinnich

Date walked: 09/05/2012

Time taken: 12 hours

Distance: 9 km

Ascent: 1137m

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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby mrssanta » Wed May 16, 2012 8:32 pm

And thanks to everybody for your comments. I'd never have been able to do this without help.
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby monty » Wed May 16, 2012 9:12 pm

Done the Inn Pin today. Superb. Your reports are good so I will only do a summary with photos for the whole week later. Thanks :D
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby skuk007 » Wed May 16, 2012 9:26 pm

Great photos, good to see you got right to the very top :clap: :clap:
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby fipriestley » Wed May 16, 2012 10:52 pm

Loving your Skye reports - very helpful! :thumbup: Well done :clap: :clap:
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby Bod » Thu May 17, 2012 12:34 am

Well done mrssanta, superb stuff and as you say fully exhilerating :) :) :) :) :)
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby mrssanta » Sat May 19, 2012 3:07 pm

Bod wrote:Well done mrssanta, superb stuff and as you say fully exhilerating :) :) :) :) :)

Thanks Bod. It was reading your report from last year that got me thinking about doing the Cuillin soon :lol:
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby clivew » Sun May 20, 2012 8:52 pm

Nice one Mrs Santa, what is it with Skye this month, that's yourself, Kev and Monty to name but a few who have Inn Pinned successfully, I'm hoping to do the same next month just booked a guide (Jonah) and having seen your pics I can't wait.
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby pollyh33 » Sun May 20, 2012 11:11 pm

Fandabidozie Mrs S!

Truly the best report I've read on the In Pinn ever.

I have my hot date with this one in Sept and for some strange reason I'm not getting my knickers in a twist about it. :? :?
I think I'm with Rudolph on this one- the fact that you're roped up gives you security that you don't have on other tricky ascents :clap: :clap: :clap:

PS Top notch photos too!!!

Did you camp at Glen Brittle?
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby Collaciotach » Mon May 21, 2012 7:18 am

Well done Santa grand stuff :D
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby mrssanta » Thu May 24, 2012 7:45 pm

pollyh33 wrote:Truly the best report I've read on the In Pinn ever.

PS Top notch photos too!!!

Did you camp at Glen Brittle?

Thank you so much. You are too kind Polly. :D the day made the photos to be honest, would have been hard to take a bad one.

we camped at Glen Brittle for 4 nights, sun to wed, on the Monday night we got the first midges of the season but the rest of the week there was a nice cool breeeze. Great showers at Glenbrittle, nearly knock your head off, and fair massages the aching muscles. Also the washing up facilities are sex-segregated, which meant that good old Rudolph had to do it by himself (fair dos, I did the cooking). On thursday we moved house to Sligachan campsite. That was nice as we could eat in the bar at the hotel, good to sit in a proper chair and keep warm for a couple of hours. showers there were good too, nice and hot.
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby pgrizz » Sat May 26, 2012 7:11 pm

Well done. My brother (he is from your neck of the woods) has done it several times but I have to achieve the feat. Maybe next time before I get too old.
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby JonAksel » Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:50 pm

Very impressive trip. I haven't been to the Isle of Skye yet.
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby bobble_hat_kenny » Sun Sep 30, 2012 1:58 pm

mrssanta wrote: When we reached our bags we had a bit of a surprise! one of the zipped mesh pockets on the waist strap of my rucksack was opened, and my chocolate peanuts and trail mix were completely gone. my lipsalve was neatly placed on the ground. two other rucksacks had also been raided. It was the work of clever ravens who have learnt to open zips. mine are especially beak friendly with little circular tabs to help with gloved hands. Good reason to put your grub in a plastic box rather than a polybag.

Aye, crows are clever wee blighters - we used to have one that raided our milk bottles DESPITE being in a plastic box, scarily enough - s/he had obviously cracked that one too.
Inspirational report, though :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: - don't know if I'll ever feel brave enough to attempt this one, but your report does maybe make it look just about possible... Respect to Rudolph & yourself :clap: !
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby mrssanta » Sun Sep 30, 2012 6:44 pm

Go for it Kenny, go with a guide and all the route finding fear is taken away, you can just enjoy the scrambling and the views. Rudolph is a right fearty and he is even considering going back!
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Re: more Cuillin sun and the In Pinn, oh yes indeed!

Postby ChrisW » Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:30 pm

Stunning stuff MrsS, well done on bagging one of the most challenging of Munros :clap: The ravens opening zips and knicking your stuff was new to me and I have to say I chuckled a little....I'll be keeping more of an eye on mine from now on :shock:
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