Meet Report: 7-9 January 2022. On the Friday evening a small but nevertheless high quality section of the YRC gathered at Low Hall Garth, welcomed by baked potatoes and a fire which had been burning since early afternoon. The forecast for Saturday morning was rain and it did not disappoint. Fortified by Robert’s full English, […]
Contents: President’s Message, YRC Quiznight, AGM Minutes, Membership Update, Meets 2022 and 2023, Lowstern and Storm Arwen, Cave Rescue Videos, Adventure+ Video Streaming, Next Committee Meeting.
Meet Report: 10-12 December 2021. The Christmas meet returned to the Boarshurst Outdoor Education Centre in Greenfield, located just on the fringe of Saddleworth Moor. The centre is well appointed and sleeps 32 people in two dormitories. On the Friday evening members arrived and were welcomed by soup and a roll prepared by Becca Humphreys, […]
Meet Report: 19-21 November 2021 at the Falcon Manor Hotel, Settle Last year’s Annual Dinner was cancelled because of Covid-19 restrictions. The Falcon Manor rolled over the booking to 2021 but a year on the Committee noted the daily new case rate of 20 to 30 thousand and thought it prudent to restrict numbers to […]
Contents: President’s Message, Annual Dinner, Annual General Meeting, Membership Update, Meets 2022, 2021 Journal, Website Update, Kindred Club Huts, Next Committee Meeting.
Meet Report: 8-10 October 2021. We were all assembled in the Carlswark Cottage by 10.00pm on Friday and anticipating good weather, were looking forward to the next couple of days. It was great to see the meet fully booked as well. Saturday The day dawned cloudy and a little foggy but we all set off […]
Meet Report: 20-24 September 2021. Held at The New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Great Langdale. The much delayed Social Meet originally planned for May 2020 eventually took place in splendid weather conditions at the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in Great Langdale. Participants: Paul and Anne Dover, Richard and Ann Dover, John and Ros Brown, Peter and […]
Meet Report: 10-12 September 2021. Times change and with them this meet. Your scribe recalls sodden weekends, steaming aged tweeds worn by seasoned climbers, and the most senior members hunched round the fireplace being characteristic of Joint Meets. Well-known attendees I recall are Ivan Waller, AB Hargreaves, Cliff Downham, George Spenceley and his guest Harry […]
Meet Report: 20-22 August 2021. It was a damp but warm August day in Clapham, when the majority of the 25 attendees of this meet arrived at our beloved Lowstern. Alan Linford led the charge, arriving the previous day. Helen Smith, who arrived earlier on Friday, did a short walk from the hut to Austwick […]