Coruisk Memorial Hut

15/10/2025

15/10/2025

Otter in the loch by the hut

15/10/2025

Just back from a fine visit to the hut

10/05/2025

There are still copies of the JMCS Anthology available. It’s a fascinating history of the club with an insight to 100 years of ordinary folks’ adventures and comradery in the mountains of Scotland and abroad. Who knew for example that there was once a climber’s hut below Creag Meagaidh, built by the Glasgow JMCS?
https://scottishmountaineeringpress.com/product/junior-mountaineering-club-of-scotland/

31/07/2023

We had the pleasure of meeting Charlie Byers on our recent trip to the hut. Who completed Rob Rob Woodall’s brilliant Cuillin Round.
This is a 24-hour 'rock and run' challenge taking in 59 Cuillin tops on the Isle of Skye. It involves running and scrambling across a distance of some 34 miles while ascending over 23000 ft' to take in a dozen Munros plus a dozen more Munro tops (including Knight's Peak).
Chris is the Fourth completer and the first to go solo/unsupported, which could be the longest unsupported run in the Cuillin to date. He even had to deal with a fair amount of wind and rain during the hours of darkness during the run.
We had the pleasure of supplying him with a much-needed bacon role and a dram on his return to the hut in a time of 22:27:52.
Well done Chris is was a pleasure to meet you.
For those who are interested here is a link for information on the Rob Rob Woodall’s Cuillin Round.
https://gofar997.wixsite.com/gofar/cuillin-round #:~:text=The%20Cuillin%20Round%20Scotland&text=In%201998%20Paddy%20Buckley%20and,top%20of%20Sgurr%20a%27%20Bhasteir.

22/06/2023

Robbie getting the most out of using our hut

04/05/2023

Your hosts at the Coruisk Memorial Hut, the Glasgow JMCS, along with the other Sections of the JMCS will be celebrating their 100th birthday in August 2025. A major milestone that requires similarly major celebrations and commemorations. As well as the usual dinners and speeches it was felt that something more lasting would be appropriate. So, along with the other Sections of the Club (Edinburgh, Lochaber, London and Perth) we have decided to publish an Anthology of JMCS stories covering the formation of the Club up to the present day. This project is well under way and progressing well. We hope to have the book available by the end of 2024.

During some of the early research, we managed to contact the daughters of 2 of the founders of the Club. They have very generously shared some precious family heirlooms in the form of two fascinating diaries and 5 photo albums dating from the formation of the Club. These give an intriguing glimpse into the characters that were around in the early days of the Club and what they were doing in the 1920s. Next time you head up to Skye, think of them doing the same but travelling from Glasgow to Glenbrittle on bicycles, or heading up to Arrochar after work on a Saturday afternoon for a day's climbing on the Cobbler on Sunday before cycling back to Glasgow for work on Monday morning. Real hardcore! One of the grandchildren, Peter Jones (), is an artist specialising in portraits of buildings. When we first met, some plans were hatched to get Coruisk painted (not the usual whitewash for a nice change!).

After some false starts we have at last managed to get 2 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren into Coruisk over the Easter weekend. They had a fabulous time there, were blessed with fair weather with no midges and while there, Peter produced a unique painting of our hut. The main motivation for doing this was to use the image in the Anthology however we are now wondering if there might be an opportunity to use this image as a means of raising some much needed funds for the project. Peter has agreed that we can produce a limited edition print run of the painting. He has very generously offered to donate 50% of the profits to the Club to help fund the Anthology. We expect the price will be in the region of £65 plus p&p for a unique, high quality, unframed giclee print which will be individually signed by the artist. An image of the painting is attached. This is a rare and strictly limited opportunity to get a unique painting of our much treasured hut at Coruisk. The painting is 40cm x 30cm.

As followers of the Coruisk Memorial Hut page, many of whom will have enjoyed the peace, tranquillity and rugged beauty of Coruisk, we would like to offer you the opportunity to purchase a copy of this painting and in a small way help to get the JMCS Anthology onto the bookshelves. If you are interested in purchasing a copy please contact us using the encrypted WhatsApp link in this post with your name and email address. We will contact you with more information in due course.

29/05/2022

Painted in 1909, The Valley of the Shadow, Loch Coruisk by Robert Burns beautifully captures the sublime beauty and atmosphere of Loch Coruisk. The original painting can be seen in the City Art Center in Edinburgh.