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 […]

Meet Report: 13-15 February 2026. Based at the Midland Association of Mountaineers’ hut Glan Dena in the Ogwen Valley. The forecast promised a short respite in this wild, windy and wet winter. A few people braved the rain and had short coastal walks on the way, whilst Peter Baker drove up to Cwm Eigiau with […]

Meet Report: 16-18 January 2026. By Friday evening eight members and three PMs had assembled at our Low Hall Garth cottage. For two PMs visiting LHG for the first time it was a leap of faith driving down the track in the dark and the others were becoming somewhat anxious as to their whereabouts.  Nevertheless, […]

Meet Report: 12-14 December 2025. Based at the Boarshurst Centre. Run by Saddleworth Outdoor Pursuits Association, this is an Independent hostel in Greenfield which we last visited in 2021.  Until 1974 it was in Yorkshire’s West Riding, but Greenfield was then redesignated as Greater Manchester.   Whatever one calls the area, there’s always been rock […]

Meet Report: 14-16 November 2025. This year’s Annual Dinner Weekend made it the tenth based on Lowstern and the Falcon Manor Hotel, and following the same format: Saturday afternoon Annual General Meeting, immediately followed by an illustrated lecture by a principal guest, then gathering at the hotel for a formal meal including a couple of […]

Meet Report: 24-26 October 2025. Challenged to place a bunkhouse in England and in “the middle of nowhere”, you wouldn’t go far wrong by putting it 5 miles down a single-track road at the end of College Valley where you will find Mounthooly Bunkhouse nestled beneath the Pennine Way as it descends from The Cheviot.  […]

Meet Report: 25-27 September 2025. Those arriving on Friday afternoon found Martyn already hard at work strimming the grass and weeds around the car park.  Simon was equally industrious replacing the wooden panels at the base of the entrance porch which had certainly seen better days. Peter and Carol B headed out for a walk […]

Meet Report: 23-25 September 2025. Nature smiled upon our enterprise with warm sunshine and mainly light winds all week. On Tuesday, Ian Hawkes stopped off at Ogwen and climbed Tryfan by the North Ridge scramble. Mark Rothwell climbed near Mold with a friend whilst Shaun Penny and Aoto Morikame stopped off at Penmaenbach Head near […]

Meet Report: 22-26 August 2025. On Friday the Chois and the Raines arrived first at Low Hall Garth to claim spots in the barn and the best bunks. After a quick lunch, the Raines set off on a bike ride and the Chois went to the Ruskin Museum to see the Bluebird. Dora and Arthur […]

Meet Report: 26 July – 9 August 2025. Ten members of the YRC travelled to the south of France for a two-week Alpine meet based at Ailefroide, in the Écrins National Parc. This is a stunning and rugged mountainous area, with the Parc itself located entirely within the borders of France. The village of Ailefroide […]