Long Day Meet To Grey Corries (Change Of Venue)

Day Meets

The Grampian Club arranges monthly Day Meets 10 months of the year, usually on the second or third weekend. On each day meet there are different options for walks provided.

They are of varying grades, from easier low level walks to challenging mountain traverses. In the summer months the walks are often longer and there are often opportunities to do several Munros in a day.

If Grampian Club Members have a route they would like to do on the day they can contact the day meet organiser to arrange this (note that the minimum number in a group is preferably 2 in the summertime and 3 in the winter time).

We travel by coach from Dundee, picking up in Perth when heading west. Members are expected to choose walks that are within their own physical capabilities and the Day Meets Team organise attendees into parties of broadly similar ability.

There is a fee for the Day Meets coach (£17.50) which needs to be paid in advance at the time of booking, preferably via the online booking website, Entry Central, or by cheque.

NOTE: This is an extra-long day to allow members the chance of a Grey Corries traverse to Glen Nevis. Please note that this route is a serious commitment, taking around 10 hours and involving total ascent of 1745 metres. The coach will leave Dundee (Compass House, Riverside Drive) at 06:30 and pick up at Perth (Broxden park & ride) at 07:00. It will travel to Corriechoille, Spean Bridge (ETA 09.15), to drop off groups for Grey Corries traverse. Parties can also be dropped off at the Ski Centre and Torlundy for the Aonachs and Ben Nevis traverses (ETA 09.45). The coach will then go to Polldubh car park in Glen Nevis, where it will be based for the day, (ETA 10.00).

It is also possible to do a Grey Corries circuit (shorter than traverse), the Corbetts pair Sgurr Innse and Cruach Innse or the lone Munro Stob Ban from Corriechoille but those routes would require an extra two-mile walk out to Spean Bridge to pick up coach on return. 

Route options include – (OS Sheet 41)

1. The big traverse: Corriechoille, Stob Choire Claurigh, Stob Coire an Laoigh, Sgurr Choinnich Mor,
   Glen Nevis, Polldubh (23km/1745m).
2. Low-level traverse: Corriechoille, Lairig Leacach bothy, Glen Nevis, Polldubh (25km/450m).
3. As Walk 2 but including Stob Ban (Grey Corries) (25km/1025m).
4. Ski Centre, Aonach Mor, Aonach Beag, Glen Nevis, Polldubh (17km/1580m)
5. Carn Mor Dearg and Ben Nevis from Torlundy to Glen Nevis (16.5km/1640m)
6. Polldubh circuit of Stob Ban (Mamores) and Mullach nan Coirean (11km/1200m). Can also include
   Sgurr a`Mhaim (13km/1550m).
7. Ring of Steall from Polldubh (15km/1800m).
8. East Highland Way from Spean Bridge, Torlundy, Halfway Lochan, Ben Nevis Tourist Route, Glen Nevis
   (24km/850m).
9. There are also shorter low-level walks in Glen Nevis and Mamores