Wst Highland Way national trail, Scotland

Dan –

Thanks for the great photos! This month in Alpinist magazine there's a feature article on winter climbing on Ben Nevis so your photos ring right home in my mind fresh from last night's thorough read of the article. Is the little white shelter in one of the photos the C.I.C. hut by chance?

I especially like the photo of you sitting next to the campfire with your shelter pitched off to the side. I've always been partial to campsite photos.

Thanks,
Sam

Cheers, I think the hut your talking about is a below a mountain called buachille etive mor, about25 miles south of ben nevis, its in the back ground of the wild camp pic, the cic hut is actually around 200m up from the river crossing, i crossed to join the carn mor dearg arete ridge walk which joins ben nevis, but the hut is the link to the north face crags.
There is a hut on the summit its the last of the meteorological observatory built in 1870 and is now a mountain rescue emergency shelter, its just behind the summit trig point,

This is the cic hut, we passed down stream! iv circled the hut because its tiny on the pic!

Wow, the CIC hut is definitely in a good location for summit attempts. Wow!

That's a beauty with the reflection of the mountain in the water…looks like you guys had a blast. I'm jealous.