Meet Report: 8-10 October 2021. We were all assembled in the Carlswark Cottage by 10.00pm on Friday and anticipating good weather, were looking forward to the next couple of days. It was great to see the meet fully booked as well. Saturday The day dawned cloudy and a little foggy but we all set off […]

Meet Report: 20-24 September 2021. Held at The New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Great Langdale. The much delayed Social Meet originally planned for May 2020 eventually took place in splendid weather conditions at the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in Great Langdale. Participants: Paul and Anne Dover, Richard and Ann Dover, John and Ros Brown, Peter and […]

Meet Report: 23-25 July 2021. By Friday evening 18 members, PMs and guests had arrived at George and Vivienne Burfitt’s beautiful home at Hartlington Mill. Set in 5½ acres of wooded valley, the campsite was in a circular clearing just above the millpond and accessed by a footbridge across Barben Beck (fast flowing despite the […]

Meet Report: 8-10 September 2020. Members began arriving at the Low Greenside Farm campsite from late morning on Tuesday. Those who arrived early enough walked in small parties or alone up Smardale past the 15th century packhorse bridge and into the nature reserve. At least one, lacking spectacles and unable to read the closure notices, […]

Meet Report: 17-26 July 2020. Collectively 50 of us walked and ran 1165 miles (1874km), cycled 413 miles (665km) and there were 122 visits to trig points. As with the Covid 19 statistics, the figures are known to be far higher. Kayaking in Sweden and caving in Yorkshire were also on the agenda. Congratulations to […]

Meet Report: 7-19 March 2020. Following well-attended club meets in Tafraout in 2009 and an excellent trek across the Jebel Sarhro in 2016, we returned to the Anti-Atlas area of Morocco having planned a fortnight’s meet in two halves. A dozen members flew into Agadir and hired cars to travel to the market town of […]

Meet Report: 6-8 December 2019. It is that time of the year when there is excitement in the air and everything feels special and this meet was no exception. To spend time with friends from scattered places around Britain for laughs and chat is something that the YRC is good at. We also made some […]

Meet Report: 16-17 November 2019. Following a long period of exceptionally heavy rain and in the run up to an election, 64 members and guests assembled for the 2019 Annual Dinner. By common consent political and Brexit-related topics were largely avoided. Despite indifferent weather the event was the usual social success with plenty of exercise […]

Meet Report: 10-13 October 2019. Is it connected with memories of Yorkshire’s maritime adventurers such as Cook and Scoresby or recalling crossings to mainland Europe en route to the Alps that make those few minutes on the Corran ferry set meets on Ardgour and Ardnamurchan apart from the usual run of meets? On Thursday, the three cars […]

Meet Report: 20-22 September 2019. The joint weekend meet began with 20 people sitting down for a welcoming meal at Lowstern. Both clubs were enjoying being sociable around a roaring fire: a good time was had by all! Michael Smith told us of his afternoon of ornithology at Attermire Scar. Colin Smith, Steve Auty, Bruce […]