Lake of Menteith

The weather for our second Lake outing was nowhere near as bad as forecast.  There was a bit of rain in the afternoon, but we got off lightly, and benefitted from 100% ceiling all day.  The wind was south-easterly and altough never strong, it was annoyingly swirly when trying to keep tight to the head…

Cobbinshaw Reservoir, 11 April 2026

Having seen the forecast for snow and gales, we were all hoping we would get a call from Mel to tell us the outing had been cancelled. No such luck!  The drive out was in pouring rain that was threatening to turn to snow, as the temperature got down to 2.5 C. Everyone assembled in…