Members and guests: David Bone, David Whittingham, Roger Mapleson (G), Craig Marsden (G), Andrew Sykes (G), Keith Todd (G).

Could this be the shortest meet report ever? We didn't go. Perhaps I had better expand on that a little. All members of the C.I.C. hut team attended the Roybridge meet and enjoyed a fine Saturday. Sunday started wet, we met in Nevisport before the walk-in.

The weather forecast was ominous, winds gale to storm force and freezing level about 1000 metres, with the avalanche warning four (i.e. the slope will avalanche if you Look at it too hard). There was much discussion as to the options available to us. Either walk in to the hut and wait, hoping for an improvement; or agree that discretion is the better part of valour and call it off. Not wanting to waste the journey or any possibility of climbing we decided, rather reluctantly, to walk in and wait. However in the pouring rain at the golf club lay-by common- sense prevailed. We got back in the cars and went home.

Subsequent monitoring of the weather and avalanche reports has confirmed the soundness of this decision. For example, the avalanche report for Thursday 20th was continuing storm force winds with all North to East facing slopes fundamentally unstable. Better luck next year ?