Meet Report: 14-16 June 2019. Eight members assembled on Friday evening at the Climbers’ Club hut Ynys Ettws, ideally and idyllically situated for climbing on the many and varied crags in the Llanberis Pass. Sadly light rain had already made its presence felt and the forecast was for rain all night. Saturday morning revealed the […]
Meet Report: 11-19 May 2019. Saturday 11th May The party assembled for another meet at the SMC’s very comfortable and well-appointed converted cottage in Elphin, in the Assynt region of NW Scotland. On the way, Mick got up very early to get to Dalwhinnie, and climbed Geal-Charn and Carn Dearg from Loch Pattack, enjoying 3 […]
Meet Report: 26-28 April 2019. Probably due to being just one week after the Easter weekend, the Spring LHG meet was attended by a select band of members and one prospective member. Friday afternoon saw Team Humphreys clock up a tour de Tilberthwaite, via the newly repaired track previously frequented by the 4×4 crowd, the […]
Meet Report: 3-10 April 2019. Three members arrived a week early for this meet and put in some practice a little further north in Oppdal at the invitation of Knut Tønsberg, principal guest at the 2017 Dinner. Kjetil Tveranger even managed a five-pitch ice climb with Knut. The weather was not ideal after a winter […]
Meet Report: 22-24 March 2019. This meet was based at the Watson Scout Centre in Carlton-in-Cleveland, a small village on the North West fringes of the North Yorkshire Moors. Even before the start of the meet members were already racking up their excursions: Iain and Mick taking in Kildale, primroses, Captain Cook’s monument and the […]
Meet Report: 2-9 March 2019. Anyone flying into Malaga airport in Southern Spain in the spring, can scarcely avoid noticing the snow-capped bulk of the Sierra Nevada looming over Granada, topped by Mulhacén, mainland Spain’s highest peak at 3479m. With hill-walking in the Alpujarras (the Sierra Nevada’s southern slopes) and the Cumbre Verde hills to […]
Meet Report: 8-11 February 2019. ‘Déjà vu‘ is Gaelic for ‘here is the Scottish weather’. The journey northward was straight forward and the forecast suggested a weather front would pass over north east Scotland during late Friday and early Saturday. I imagined we could work round that. The SMC Raeburn Hut is a small but […]
Meet Report: 18-20 January 2019. After being spoilt by the weather on last year’s visit to Snowdonia, there was both a mixed forecast and consequently mixed expectations for the weekend. We were staying at the Tan-y-Wyddfa hut in Rhyd-Ddu, owned by our kindred club The Oread Mountaineering Club. The hut is well positioned with easy […]
Meet Report: 1-3 January 2019. “Out with the old and in with the new” is a saying which feels apposite for this meet. Obviously, we are done with the 2018 meets and starting with 2019’s. Annually we hope for good winter conditions in the Lakes and usually we are disappointed and get a cold soaking. […]
Meet Report: 12-14 December 2018. The 2018 Christmas meet returned to Cote Ghyll Mill YHA just outside Osmotherley, on the edge of the North York Moors. This is a spacious and comfortable venue, and 29 members and guests enjoyed their stay. Most of the attendees arrived on Friday evening, with a few turning up on […]