by Mal Grey » Mon May 18, 2015 11:52 am
Impressed you did these two in those conditions, and glad the rock missed!
We had a cloudy but calm day for these, and managed to traverse both, starting from Thormaid and descending Thuim, with a pretty exposed descent! A superb outing, which doesn't seem to get quite the attention of the other more famous Cuillin rounds, but contains some of the sharpest sections of ridge.
As for rockfall, when I first did the In Pinn, there was a chap ahead of me who for some reason was off the side of the east ridge, several metres off route, hanging from a steeper bit when the big rock he was on decided to depart. Luckily he just got out of the way and it missed his rope too. It didn't help the nerves for us, or particularly for the already nervous lady in front of us. The gabbro may be one of the best rocks for climbing on, but the Cuillin is full of lots of loose rock too.
