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Gain-an-Hour 2016 Gallery

Our weekend of the year based in Contin, near Dingwall. The theme was Tartan & Tweed, the hospitality was excellent and even the weather cooperated.

Here are some pictures from the 2016 Weekend of the year. If anyone who was there has others, please let me see them.

We were based at Coul House Hotel in Contin, and I think I can safely say that all of us would recommend this venue based on the beauty of the house and its location, and in no small part on the excellence of service and great hospitality we received. The quality of the food was also fabulous.

On the Friday we had a drive north, passing over Struie Hill and the Cromarty and Dornoch Firths. We lunched at The Pier restaurant at Lairg and continued beyond Altnaharra before turning east through Strath Naver via Kinbrace to Helmsdale. Open and treeless for much of the way, the single track roads had good visibility for driving and to the spectacular views. We returned past a sunlit Cromarty Firth down the A9.

The Saturday drive led via Loch Carron towards Kyle of Lochalsh, and a meeting with old friends at the Kintail Lodge Hotel on Loch Duich for lunch. Return was past the Five Sisters towards Invermoriston, but turning East through Glen Garry to Invergarry before following Loch Oich to Fort Augustus and on up Loch Ness to Drumnadrochit. Here we cut off west again to Cannich and up Strath Glass to get to Muir of Ord and so back to base.

Dinner on Saturday night allowed members to express their interpretations of this year's theme- "Tartan & Tweed". Derek & Kay (Tartan Pyjama Party) and Ray (Sid Snot) wrer picked as "best in show" by the independent ajudicator.

I really enjoyed the event - my only problem is the impossibility of topping it next year!

Gain-an-Hour 2016 gallery contains 13 images and is part of the PCGB Scotland North region activities from November 2016

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