Mountaineers 2 Ramblers 0 ( Innses)

[Johnny Corbett]

Took a chance to climb these two Corbetts as we knew there would be a good chance of snow on their north sides, the sides we would be climbing them by. Reason we gambled was Jimmy and Mo have no winter gear and Mo is not comfortable walking with snow on the hills, so we set off to see how things would go. Alan had recently got himself a pair of spikes and was desperate to try them out and it wasn't long till he got them on. We left the track to climb Cruach Innse and so far so good. We then reached snow, which was soft just like Jimmy and Mo. Then we came to hard snow, like The Pathfinder and i. Mo quite rightly said she was going no further and Jimmy agreed to turn back. After a wee discussion it was decided myself and The Pathfinder would continue after we donned our spikes and crampons and would phone from the first summit reference continueing to no.2. As J&M returned we climbed steeply to the plateaux and once up were able to get the spikes and crampons off. We would not require them for the rest of the walk. After phoning Jimmy from the summit he told us to continue and they would await our return at the car. From Cruach Innse there is a path that leads down through the crags to the 593m point and again another path leading to Sgurr Innse. We had a little bit of scrambling on our way up and although there was snow it was soft enough not to require crampons. On our return we took a more direct route to the main path rather than head back to the 593 point and from here back to Jimmy and Mo.

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Pathfinder and Mo

Cruach Innse

The Pathfinder

Sgurr Innse

Cruach Innse summit

The Pathfinder and Grey Corries

On way down Cruach

The route down

Sgurr Innse

Sgurr Innse

We headed up to the left here

Climbing Sgurr Innes

Cruach Innse

Me at the summit

Stob Ban

On our way down

Stob Ban

We came down to the left

Sgurr Innse

[mountain thyme]

How many hills have you done JC?????
Id call that extremely bad planning.... Why take Jimmy and Mo up those 2 when you know they had no winter gear
Typical eastcoaster..changing the plans because you knew it was your turn to pay for the corran ferry

[Bod]

Well done you guys, those two hills look fun ... been eyeing them up myself for a long time

[SAVAGEALICE]

[gmr82]

Nice walk JC, not too sure about the 'tongue out' summit photo

[ballarat]

How many hills have you done JC?????
Id call that extremely bad planning.... Why take Jimmy and Mo up those 2 when you know they had no winter gear
Typical eastcoaster..changing the plans because you knew it was your turn to pay for the corran ferry

ramblers 2 mountaineers 0 comes to mind in the absence of the full preparation story

[Stuart Angus]

Brrrrrr, looks a bit chilly JC..................roll on the summer

[rockhopper]

Nice one, JC - good to have a pathfinder to help you along eh Can remember walking past these hills last year en route to the munros - just a bit too much to add them on but they did look like they'd make a good walk in their own right - cheers

[Johnny Corbett]

How many hills have you done JC?????
Id call that extremely bad planning.... Why take Jimmy and Mo up those 2 when you know they had no winter gear
Typical eastcoaster..changing the plans because you knew it was your turn to pay for the corran ferry

I never took them up these two, they turned back

How many hills have you done JC?????
Id call that extremely bad planning.... Why take Jimmy and Mo up those 2 when you know they had no winter gear
Typical eastcoaster..changing the plans because you knew it was your turn to pay for the corran ferry

ramblers 2 mountaineers 0 comes to mind in the absence of the full preparation story

Not sure how you come to this conclusion. Myself and Alan had the gear so we continued, Jimmy and Mo did not so they quite rightly turned back.

[lomondwalkers]

They look like a couple of good uns Johnny. Still plenty snow up that way too