Long range forecast looks good this winter, if you trust such things. There's even a 25% chance of a white Christmas for northern Britain according to some!
In Scotland there's lots to look forward to beyond the Ben and the Cairngorms.
Two festivals coming up and a tooling competition including the World Premiere of
Claire and Dave MacLeod's film, Echo Wall, documenting Dave's ascent of the route that is
“harder than Rhapsody or anything else I've been on”.
Read more at
http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/older.html?month=09&year=2008#n45325 
