Meet Report: 25-27 April at the Hebden Hey Scout Centre, nestled in the wooded valley above Hebden Bridge in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. This offered basic hostel accommodation with bunk rooms and a kitchen off a main communal room that could well double up as an activity space for scouts on inclement days. Everyone arrived at […]
11-13th July 2025 at the BMC’s Rockhall Cottage situated just below the gritstone edge of the Roaches. All of the Peak District is readily accessible, along with a number of long distance routes such as the Churnet Way and the Gritstone Way that can be linked to provide interesting circuits. The Peak is well supplied […]
20-22nd June 2025 at Lowstern. For this year’s Long Walk we have planned a crossing of our backyard, the wild and remote moorlands south-west of our Yorkshire hut. It is not an area of spectacular hills but you will traverse country you probably haven’t visited before. The route sticks to the high ground as much […]
Saturday 19th July 2025, starting at 10am at the Crooked Billet pub in Saxton, just South of Tadcaster. The walk will take in the historic site of the Towton Battlefields, where on the 29th March 1461 the largest and bloodiest battle on British soil took place the between the Yorkists and the House of Lancaster. It […]
June 6-8th 2025 at Low Hall Garth, Little Langdale. This is your opportunity to put something back into the Club and help maintain our huts in top condition. Ged and Alister will have a list of jobs to do and materials will be provided. Accommodation and food for the weekend is free so do come […]
Meet Report: 5-12 April 2025 based in Calpe. Most of the meet arrived at various times on the Saturday although the Richards and Tennants had separately been in Costa Blanca for a few days, indulging in various excursions including an ascent of Puig Campagna. The Smiths arrived a day later. Everyone managed to locate the […]
10-17th May 2025 at the Croft Bunkhouse in Portnalong on the West coast of Skye, 8 miles from Sligachan. The bunkhouse is within easy reach of the Cuillin and all the other attractions of the island. This will be our first visit to Skye for some years so we hope to attract a lot of […]
Meet Report: 21-23 March 2025 at the Rucksack Club’s High Moss hut in Seathwaite. After a week of glorious spring sunshine ten members made their way to the Duddon Valley travelling through grey skies and the possibility of 60% to 70% chance of rain over the next few days. The first arrivals at High Moss […]
Meet Report: 27 February – 2 March 2025 Held at the Ochils Mountaineering Club’s Inverardran Cottage. This was Tom Spencer’s first meet as leader. He performed his duties admirably with the help of Jonathan Bird to cook the haggis. In spite of several trolley loads of food in ASDA the usual three courses were dispensed […]
Meet Report: 7-9 February 2025. Our party of eight gathered on Friday evening at Ty Powdwr, home of the Karabiner Mountaineeering Club. Ty Powdwr sits across Llyn Padarn from Llanberis and is accessed from the village of Dinorwig via a rough track through farm buildings. The sturdy nature of the structure can be explained by […]