Before we got to Scotland, we really wanted to climb a mountain or two in Glencoe.  We also really wanted to do Ben Nevis, but had heard that it was still very snowy and wintry up there, and we didn’t have crampons or an ice axe or anything, so didn’t want to risk doing a big mountain unprepared.  Like I’ve said before, lots of tourists do stupid things and die on these mountains, even with the help of Scotland’s mountain rescue.  We decided to cross Ben Nevis off our list and move it to the ‘when we come back/move to Scotland’ list.