Meet report 22-24 March 2024 at Brackenclose. Brackenclose looking up towards Pikes Crag and Scafell The author of this report exhorted (harangued?) the meet attendees to elevate their offering about their activities to a level of purple prose not previously experienced by our readers. Several questioned the meaning of purple prose. Here is an example […]

Meet report 1-3rd March 2024 at Tan y Garth, Capel Curig. Standing a little east of Capel Curig, by the start of the path up Moel Siabod, the comfortable Gwydyr Mountain Club’s Tan-y-Garth hut made a good base for days out on that mountain, the Glyders and the Carneddau.  The hut’s sleeping area and kitchen […]

Meet Report: 10-13 February 2024 at Inbhirfhaolain, Glen Etive. For YRC members who like their glens saturated with water rather than midges, a February trip to Glen Etive is highly recommended. The Club’s first recorded trip there seems to have been made by Wm Cecil Slingsby in April 1896, and the Club has been making […]

Meet Report: 12-14 January 2024. With good winter climbing conditions in Scotland there was some hope of snow in the Lakes for this traditional first meet of the year in Little Langdale. This was not to be, though walking conditions were good and there was surprising activity on the meet.  The saturated ground of recent […]

Meet Report: 8-10 December 2023. Above Kettlewell, at 467m high on the slopes of Great Whernside, Hag Dyke has a special place in the hearts of long-standing members, having seen a string of meets in living memory. It was the finish point of the seven peaks long walk in June 1978 when the start was […]

Meet Report: 17-19 November 2023 at the Falcon Manor Hotel, Settle. To begin at the beginning, four years ago six members arrived at their last cabin on a week’s ski tour in Norway. With the strong, cold wind behind them it had been good day: over a pass, down a series of lakes, crossing a […]

Meet Report: 27-29 October 2023 at Low Row Bunkhouse. Friday 27th Paul & Tamsin ascended Wild Boar Fell from Mallerstang, starting with a rainbow and patches of blue sky but arriving at the summit in thick mist. Michael and Helen walked from Reeth, along Fremington Edge and back via Marrick hamlet and Priory. Steve and […]

Meet Report: 6-8 October 2023, joint with the Gritstone Club. By Friday night fifteen members, one PM and two Grits had assembled at the cavernous, recently renovated, spotlessly clean and well-equipped Watson Scout Centre in Carlton-in-Cleveland. Despite the size of the centre the sitting room was cosy with the gathering on Friday evening resembling a […]

Meet Report: 15-17 September 2023 at the Wayfarers’ Robertson Lamb Hut. Early birds arrived on Thursday, and Mike Gregg had a long walk on Friday, despite the changeable weather. Dave Carpenter did a tour of Whymore Fell and Cathedral Cavern in the rain. Other less hardy souls arrived from Friday lunch time, hung around 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 […]