Creag Meagaidh 24th Jan

With reports of Creag Meagaidh being busy during Saturday, we set our alarms for an un-welcome 04:30 start this morning! As it turned out, me and Liam were the first people on the hill.

Light snow and no wind -3 at 900M.

Having visited the foot of Smith's Gully V,5 **** on two previous occasions, I was determined we'd get up it today! The first pitch looked in good nic, but it turned out to be very cruddy.

Pitches 2 + 3 weren't any better, and we had a real fight with some of the cruddy, un-protectable sections.

The 4th pitch (crux) turned out to be the easiest of them all.

Got to be the best Scottish Gully I have ever done.

Brilliant Day.