(Well what else did you expect from a mountaineering club?) We're not a competetive club like most of the other clubs in the Sports Union, so we rarely have achievements about which we can boast. However there is one achievement which takes skill, fitness and dedication [cue for a song: if you want to be the best, if you want to beat the rest, dedication's what you need] - climbing all of Scotland's Munros. A Munro is a mountain over 3000 feet (914m), and at the last count there were 284 of them. Several members have managed them all but the most notable must be Steven Copping, who is already half-way through doing them all twice!
In memory of Graham Leaver, the club renovated an outhouse at the back of Prince
Charles' lodge at Glas Allt Shiel and turned it into an open bothy. One of the
most luxurious you will find, having double glazing on the upstairs windows!
Stuart McKeggie, one of our members studying civil engineering, designed a bridge
over a river in Torridon for his project. During the vacation, the club, sponsored
by Scottish Heritage or the National Trust for Scotland (?), actually built the bridge.
Instead of the usual climbing trip at Easter a couple of years ago we decided it was time we did something a little more useful. Having been to Camasunary before (and parked our tents in front of a visiting film crew!) we had noticed the enormous amount of flotsam and jetsam lying on the shore of the bay (well, you can't miss it really!).
In glorious weather we resisted the urge to climb Blaven, instead trudging several miles over the hills carrying sacks of rubbish. A few hundred sackfulls later we had filled a skip and decided enough was enough.