Just before the Bealach Beag '08 (early May) we were up home & it was warm enough for shorts & bare-chest (mine, I hasten to add…). Last year, it was horrendous on the day (similar to the freezing rain of yesterday), then t-shirt weather the next – approx. 5th May. Plus I'm hoping for a week up there in May meself, fairly confident it'll improve no end.
Put this wee attempt at 'mapping' together for routes I'm intending when up visiting the folks this year (in Opinan) – Home Circuits.. Tie in with any of yours Iain?

Hmm.. will have to consider that.. Will look out for a chance to discuss yer detailed plans sometime in April, during a spin perhaps.

2 weeks is enough time for a complete turn around

May always has a couple of weeks of nice weather. It's the law. There is a scientific reason for it too. Apparently the edge of summer moves north and there's a wee honeymoon period before it heats up the land and sea and causes the summer weather systems that bring well, summer wind and rain. Quite often the Moray Firth gets the warmest temps in Britain and sometimes most of Europe at that time. I've been in Aviemore one early May when there was a couple of feet of snow first thing in the morning. By the afternoon it was sweltering and there was hardly even a puddle in sight, on the roads at least. So, in summary, relax if you're camping low down it will most probably be nice. I've skied in June though 🙂

I'll be around on 17 / 18th. Sounds like c. the 20th May will be the ideal time for a week off, as I've volunteered to Marshall at the Aberfoyle round of the SXC C'ship on the 23rd. Must get that wall-planner put up…