I’ve spent quite a lot of the last two weeks supervising Duke of Edinburgh Award (DofE) qualifying expeditions for the City of Edinburgh Council Outdoor Education.
![Evening light on Stuc a'Chroin](http://www.climbnow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_20150806_204919-250x188.jpg)
The expeditions included traverses through the Pentlands and the Trossachs. The weather was generally very kind, but a couple of the Silver Groups did particularly well to keep good spirits through a day and night of fairly incessant rain in the Trossachs.
![Wild camping above Callander.](http://www.climbnow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_20150806_1857431-250x333.jpg)