Meet Report: 16-19 February 2023 at the Braedownie Hut, Glen Clova. Scotland, what’s the weather doing? Search the forecasts and as usual the heart sinks. One forecast indicated winds reaching 70 mph and it was clear that there was now little or no snow. Travelling up on the Thursday the weather was fine, fish supper, […]

Meet Report: 10-12 March 2023. Based at the Orpheus Caving Club’s cottage near Monyash. A challenging weather forecast preceded the Peak District meet. Snow was forecast in Central England and as predicted, substantial snowfalls had occurred on the Thursday night, causing numerous road blockages and road closures across the high Derbyshire passes. Friday dawned with […]

Meet Report: 27-29 January 2023. Fifteen members and prospective members descended upon Tan yr Wyddfa on Friday evening. Mike Smith arrived early and nipped up Y Garn, scrambling onwards to Mynydd Drws y Coed before returning via Cwm Marchnad. Alan Clare tested his quite recent new hip for an hour or so around the local […]

Meet Report: 6-8 January 2023. We held our traditional start to the calendar year with our winter LHG meet during a very wet period  over the first weekend in January. Members assembled at LHG during Friday afternoon and evening with only John and Carol managing any activity during the day. They arrived at LHG on […]

Meet Report: 9-11 December 2022. Thursday saw the early arrival of four members amid wall to wall sunshine. Mike Godden went for a walk on Dalton Fell where the view across Morecambe Bay was stunning. The Hut Warden as ever got on with hut jobs. On Friday Mike G, Ian Crowther, and John Jenkin  joined […]

Meet Report: 11-13 November 2022. This Annual Dinner marked the end of the YRC’s 130th year. It was a blend of the traditional and the new. The AGM was back to being held before the Dinner, Kindred Clubs were again invited to send a representative and the event ended with the singing of Yorkshire, first […]

Meet Report: 28-30 October 2022. Based at the Gritstone Club’s hut The Smithy at the head of Thirlmere. Home on Sunday evening, after a few reviving cups of tea, a meal and a good soak in a hot bath your scribe considered this a good weekend’s walking.  There were times though on Saturday and Sunday […]

Meet Report: 7-9 October 2022 at Haggs Bank Bunkhouse, Nenthead. Pre-meet activities 7th October Helen and Michael timed their arrival at Forest-in Teesdale for the start of the dry weather and followed the southern side of the swollen Tees upstream to near Falcon Clints. After crossing Cronkley Fell they used the Pennine Way back to […]

Meet Report: 23-25 September 2022. Lochranza SYHA. Arran was last visited by the club in 2018 and so this meet was very much looked forward to having been postponed twice due to Covid in 2020 and 2021. Nine members and a guest enjoyed the facilities of the Lochranza SYHA at the northern end of the […]

Meet Report: 12-15 September. Based at the Izaak Walton Hotel, Ilam village. This was a select gathering of just four couples with Helen and Michael Smith joining us for Tuesday and Wednesday. Monday was wet and miserable making for difficult travelling conditions but then normal service was resumed and we enjoyed blues skies and warm […]