Westies - the Campies by Moonlight ...or not

Some folks will know I finally got round to Joining the “Westies” last year. With the dark nights, most of the midweek club runs are road or local trail runs. Once a month as close to full moon time as we can … it is back to the hills.

This months run was up in the Campsies. It might not of gone exactly to plan ... but it was good fun. Below is Chris Upson’s very accurate version of events ...

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Approx. version of events...

There were 9 of us to start with, but Luke, Steffen and Robert all
dropped out before Cort-ma Law. That left me, Graham Kelly, CatM, ValB, ValH and ClareF. It was pretty misty and murky on C-mL but we took a bearing and headed off towards Lecket.

The emerald green bog was the worst I've ever seen and people were
constantly disappearing up to their waists, but we ploughed on regardless. However the visibility got worse and degenerated to around 10 metres, so bit by bit we lost all sense of direction, or where we were, or why we were there. So we abandoned the idea of Lecket and decided instead to try to get back to the road, and headed west dropping into the gully and eventually contouring round to where we should have come off Lecket.

When we got back to Clachan of Campsie, Steffen had been waiting for
around an hour, but thankfully Robert was still there, so they were sitting in his car with the heating on.

All in all a great night!!
C