Author: Mick Borroff
Meet Report: 16-18 March 2026. Glaisdale offers a different perspective of the North York Moors compared to recent meets which have been held further west in Carlton-in-Cleveland. Five members and three prospective members assembled at the well-appointed Bank House Farm bunkhouse in lovely Glaisdale, having negotiated the narrow lanes and farm track, and all arriving just […]
Most years the Club organises a week-long meet in the Spring to somewhere nice and warm as an antidote to our increasingly damp winters. Spain and Morocco are top choices. These popular trips attract climbers, scramblers and mountain walkers and recent venues include the Serra de Tramuntana in Mallorca (2026), the Costa Blanca mountains (2025, […]
Here is the December Newsletter. Contents President’s Message By way of introduction, especially for those who don’t know me, I’ve been around the YRC for quite some time. My journey with the Club began at the annual dinner in 1976 at the Cairn Hotel in Harrogate, where the illustrious Peter Boardman was the guest speaker. […]
Meet Report: 25 May – 1 June 2024. Held at the Naismith Hut, Elphin. Saturday 25th MayWith three late cancellations, the smaller party began to assemble for another most enjoyable meet at the SMC’s comfortable and well-appointed cottage in Elphin, in the rugged and beautiful Assynt region of NW Scotland. On the way, Peter and […]
Meet Report: 6-20 April 2024. Following a well-attended club meet in Tafraout in 2009, an excellent trek across the Jebel Sarhro in 2016 and a meet in 2020 cut short in its prime by Covid-19 after the first week in Tafraout, we returned to the Anti-Atlas area of Morocco having planned a fortnight’s trip in […]
Meet Report: 19 August – 1 September 2023. This meet was born out of a chance encounter with Austrian author and photographer Dr Dieter Höss and his wife Ina during the 2018 YRC Kangchenjunga Base Camps trek, where our routes coincided for a few days. Mick kept in touch with Dieter after the trek and […]
Contents: President’s Message, Membership Update, Lowstern and Low Hall Garth, 2023 AGM, Annual Dinner and Hotel Bookings, 2024 Meets List, Sponsored Abseil for NSAR Completed , Frank Platt, Winter Skills Offer, Next Committee Meeting.