Four happy campers set off on the ferry from Tayvallich to Jura on a scorching hot Friday all set for an attack of the 3 Paps of Jura.
The campsite sits directly in front of the hotel (re-hydration was the order of the weekend) and luckily the Jura hotel bar was our saviour on a number of occasions over the weekend.
Off we headed early on Saturday (the hottest day in Scotland for 2 years) and cycled to the start point of the Paps challenge. Midges were luckily mostly absent but replaced by hoards of skin slicing clegs drawing blood with each hungry bite!
Superb views were soon being enjoyed with luckily a decent Hebridean breeze high up. The group managed all 3 hills (two Grahams and a Corbett) with plenty of scree/boulder scrambling and “up and dooning” to be had. The elder statesman of the group ended up with a touch of heat exhaustion but the other 3 kept him going with bribes of buying the 1st round at the hotel and they made it back (just) to the campsite for a welcome shower and crawl to the Hotel for some well earned beer and food.
A great weekend was had with the weather starting to change as we arrived back in Tayvallich on the Sunday evening. Photo of the weekend (see below) goes to Lauren who after hearing munching outside her tent managed to take the deer photo below at about 4am.
