Meet Report: 15-22 June 2022. Hut to hut touring in the Massif du Canigou. At last, this meet, originally scheduled for 2020 and organised by Kjetil Tveranger, actually got underway but not without hiccoughs. Our original flight from Stansted to Perpignan was cancelled and everyone had to rebook which involved rescheduling the whole trip. Also […]
Meet Report: 20-28 May 2022. Scottish Spring Bank Meet at Kincraig in the Southern Cairngorms. This was an active meet in a relatively quiet and attractive part of the Cairngorms which provided a variety of activities in a week of showery and windy weather with sunny spells. Six of those signed up for this meet […]
Meet Report: 6-8 May 2022. The Fylde MC’s Stair Cottage is just outside the peaceful hamlet of Stair in one of the few quiet corners of the Lake District. It proved ideal for our purposes. Attending: Barbara Salmon, Arthur Salmon, Conrad Tetley, Beverley Eastwood, Mick Borroff, Tim Josephy, Helen Brewitt, Helen Smith, Michael Smith, Christine […]
Contents: President’s Message, 130³ Project Success and Celebration, Membership Update, LHG Track Repaired, Wolverhampton MC Hut, Next Committee Meeting.
Meet Report: 30 March-6 April 2022. Eight members went on a week’s hut-to-hut ski tour round Norway’s Langsua National Park, west of Lillehammer, encountering fewer than ten people but several hundred reindeer. For members returning from the rather wet and grey Costa Blanca meet with only a few days to reorganise kit for this ski […]
Meet Report: 19-26 March 2022. Grey skies and a cold wind greeted arrivals at Alicante airport for the delayed and much anticipated week of sunshine and warm rock. We had been forewarned by local member David Hall and Rod and Yayoi Smith, who had arrived a day or two earlier, but what made it worse […]
Meet Report: 4-6 March 2022. The Covid situation had relaxed sufficiently for this meet to take place without restrictions. But a very dark new cloud has appeared on the horizon, the Putin invasion of Ukraine. It was therefore a welcome moment for your scribe as he arrived in Buckden to see blue sky appear at […]
Contents: President’s Message, YRC Quiznight, Membership Update, 130³ Project Update, YRC Merchandise, Glover Review, Next Committee Meeting.
Meet Report: 17-20 February 2022. Prior to a meet the forecast is eagerly awaited. MWIS indicated that on the Thursday, the day on which most would be travelling, the wind on the hills would be typically 80 to 100 mph (and gusts up to 120 mph) but easing, slowly, to 50 to 70 with either […]
Meet Report: 28-30 January 2022. Ten members and prospective members assembled at Beudy Mawr on Friday evening. After three weeks of dry, calm and often sunny weather, the various forecasts accessed by the IT literate encompassed rain all day to sunshine all day but they all warned of very strong winds. By midnight Harvey, in […]