tony.cee wrote:A friend and I had a similar issue the other day while attempting to climb beinn bhrotain, having walk in from linn of day on a very calm day, by the time we reached Carn cloich mhuilin the conditions were awful, we both looked at the map and agreed where we were, or so we thought we were, took out the gps and in fact we were quite abit away from where we thought we were. Him being ex foreign legion and having good nav skills and mine being enough to get me by, we were caught out, the Moral of the story being that in awful conditions and in a near white out, judgment becomes blurry at best. We decided to go no further and made our way back the way we came. Disappointing driving out and walking in, but the hill will be there tomorrow, and the next day. Great report btw.
Cheers - yeah Sam and I have turned back at least twice due to conditions when very near to the summit - I remember on Sgiath Chuil we were only about 50m from the craggy summit but we just simply couldn't see and it could have been suicidal!
Got to know when to say nah- it'll still be here tomorrow I'll come back!
