Castle Ridge

Matt Lander about to run up Castle Ridge with his Classic Adventure Outward Bound group

On Wednesday I was working for Outward Bound. Matt has a Classic Adventure Course group and he wanted to challenge them with the North Face of the Ben - so we headed off to Castle Ridge. Matt split the group between himself, Dave Buckett and myself. The weather forecast looked like we could be lucky and possibly avoid all the rain, thunder and lightening.

Dave Buckett

We did manage to enjoy the entire climb on perfect dry rock - wearing t-shirts and suncream - a fantastic climb.

Matt bringing his group up Castle Ridge

We had about 4 drops of rain on the way up, and the heavens nearly opened on us on the way down, but we were lucky with only a light shower. We did however see the thunder storms all about us. There was one particular storm over Loch Lochy which covered Lena and her group up a munro in the storm.

Storm clouds brewing - bringing thunder and lightening. One unfortunate group was at the top of a munro inside the storm - leading to a well managed safe outcome