Skye is well known for a number things like the Trotternish Ridge, the Old Man of Storr, it’s fine Talisker whisky and perhaps most famously the Cuillin hills, Britain’s only Alpine type peak. Anyone who enjoys being in the mountains, this has to be up there on your tick list to visit and explore the ridge, there is nothing else like it in the UK and it’s a true mountaineers ridge. Although it’s only about 7 miles long, it has 11 Munros and was first traversed in 1 go in 1911 and was completed in under 24 hours! Considering the complexity of the route finding and the constant technical skills required to negotiate the terrain, it was a remarkable feat. It currently stands at 2 hours and 59 minutes…..

The aim of this week is quite simple, to explore as much of the ridge as we can (and the weather allows!). The broad plan will be to treat the week as a classic mountaineering week, searching out perhaps as many of the Munros as your legs will cope with or there is always the option to approach the ridge via some of the easy climbing routes onto the ridge. 

As with all these trips the weather is the determining factor and may allow us to follow a broad plan or force us to to change. It’s always an adventure, but the key factors are that we stay safe, enjoy the week and hopefully cover as much rock as we can. I prefer to keep the plan very open to allow us to make decisions compatible to the conditions on the ground.