We picked a day of bad weather for the first work day of the year, but still managed to do quite a bit . By lunchtime it was obvious that if we did not leave then, some of us would not get home that day. The snow gates on the A9 were being closed as we left. Another work day will be needed when we have a better chance of good weather.

Thanks to those who turned out: James Bell, Peter Burbridge, Iain Conacher, Paul Crosbie, Hugh Inglis and son, John Macdonald, John Potter and Stephen Thomson; also to Jeremy Gaywood, Adam MacPherson and Paul Sandie, all of whom volunteered and set off from home but were beaten back by blizzards on the way.

Photo's below show some of the volunteers at work. In order not to put anyone off their cornflakes for life, there is no photo of WARC chairman up to his elbows in unmentionable material in the toilet, which some morons had vandalised over the winter.