BeeKeeper wrote:The unhelpful answer would be to suggest not to go camping this early in the year on the west coast of Scotland
You could potentially say that about any time of year on the west coast of Scotland, thobut...
There are times when the weather is going to be relentlessly awful and kill an outdoor holiday, it's part of the territory. Some people thrive on adversity but some of us prefer to say to hell with it, make our peace with the weather gods and retreat until another day. You can tell yourself you've paid ££s to come up there and you'll damn well soldier on, or you can tell yourself it'll cost you even more ££s if you stay and why make it cost more as well as make you wet and cold?
It'll be down to why you went and what you're hoping to get out of it. If it's the exhilaration of the open road camping among nature's bounty, and you're not feeling exhilarated and you're resenting nature for being cold and wet right now, then you're not going to get what you went there for. At which point my wife and I would be thinking about our options and coming up with Plan B. But there's plenty of folk who'll get a buzz from battling on, and they should battle on.
Decide which works best for you: you don't have to carry through your original plan, nobody is vetting your route except you. Do whatever will maximise your enjoyment (or at least minimise your discomfort!).