Station Times
20th August 2012 - Issue 9
It was OARSOME!!!
Weather The West Highlands
Showery, especially west. Blustery western summits.
50 years of Lochearnhead Edition
Yesterday we went white water rafting and canyoning. In the rafting we went down 6 different rapids and learnt how to help people when they fall out of the raft. When we came along side another raft we all jumped on and tried to pull as many people off as possible.
How Windy? South or southwesterly 15 increasing to 20mph, but on western hills strengthening to 25 to in evening perhaps 30mph.
How Wet? Showers, mainly western mountains, where near and west of Loch Linnhe once or twice over a couple of hours, rain may be almost constant. Small risk thunder.
Cloud on the hills? Cloud base highest northern Lochaber, where base 700 rising to 1050m, with breaks to higher summits. Elsewhere, cloud base at times below 450m, and only rare breaks above 750m well inland.
I think canyoning was more fun though, we climbed across rocks and went through rapids. We even managed to climb a small waterfall. We got to jump of rocks into deep water and swim to the shore. I think today was really fun and I would like to do all the activities again someday! Thomas Ronayne
Top Ropes! When we arrived it wasn’t raining, the perfect conditions for climbing.
Sunshine - Air clarity? Patchwork of bright sunshine, northern Lochaber. Little sun elsewhere. Visibility excellent, but extensively foggy on western and southern hills. How Cold? o 10 C (at 900m) o 18 C (at Station)
We started by traversing in a small area. After that we started to climb two different courses, an easy and a harder on, and then we had to abseil down. After lunch, we tried two harder courses, one of which had very few hand and foot grips. Finally we finished by abseiling but to our bad luck it started to rain, overall it was a good say sitting with excitement. Group E
Mug shot of the day. The cooks had spent the day at the Lochearn-head Village fete, but they had still provided dinner! The DC was a little dizzy after his trip in the minibus!
When mugsy said could he have a go on the tombola this wasn't exactly what he meant!