Mountains, sea kayaking and lobster creeling

Busy days at the Adventure School

With a good weather window for a mountain day we decided to wake early on Sunday and head straight to the foot of the mountain after breakfast. The Blues were dropped off first and split into two squads to tackle the first summit of Arkle, with the Reds arriving shortly afterwards.

The open approach slopes to the first summit mean that you can take pretty much any line up the mountain to reach a moon scape like plateau and the cairn that marks the first summit. From there a narrow crescent shaped ridge descends into a col and climbs back out to reach the second (and higher) summit.

The first teams across made the second summit between 12:30 and 1pm with the other teams not far behind. As the forecast suggested we had a clear day with stunning views across the west coast. Its a day that is designed to be challenging and it was a superb effort by all to reach both summits and be back down in good time.

Today was a mix of sea kayaking on Loch A Chadh Fi, shelter building above the shoreline, and boating in our two workboats (Argo and Victoria) to lift lobster creels and stop at Ardmore to see the 1966 Atlantic rowing boat, and Rebecca’s Cape Horn sea kayak. This evening we took the Reds sea fishing in beautiful evening light. Not a huge haul but a few good sized mackerel to supplement island rations later in the week.