Author: Mick Borroff
Meet Report: 25 May – 1 June 2024 at the Naismith Hut, Elphin. Saturday 25th MayWith three late cancellations, the smaller party began to assemble for another most enjoyable meet at the SMC’s comfortable and well-appointed cottage in Elphin, in the rugged and beautiful Assynt region of NW Scotland. On the way, Peter and Jennifer […]
Meet Report: 6-20 April 2024. Following a well-attended club meet in Tafraout in 2009, an excellent trek across the Jebel Sarhro in 2016 and a meet in 2020 cut short in its prime by Covid-19 after the first week in Tafraout, we returned to the Anti-Atlas area of Morocco having planned a fortnight’s trip in […]
Meet Report: 19 August – 1 September 2023. This meet was born out of a chance encounter with Austrian author and photographer Dr Dieter Höss and his wife Ina during the 2018 YRC Kangchenjunga Base Camps trek, where our routes coincided for a few days. Mick kept in touch with Dieter after the trek and […]
Contents: President’s Message, Membership Update, Lowstern and Low Hall Garth, 2023 AGM, Annual Dinner and Hotel Bookings, 2024 Meets List, Sponsored Abseil for NSAR Completed , Frank Platt, Winter Skills Offer, Next Committee Meeting.
Meet Report: 6-8 June 2023 at the FRCC’s Birkness Coach House Cottage. Given the considerable number of retired members in the Club, Rod Smith suggested the idea of a running a midweek meet to the Meets Committee who thought the idea had merit: quieter fells, fewer congested roads, easy parking and the possibility to book […]
Meet Report: 14-21 April 2023. The extensive area of rugged granite in north-western Portugal which encompasses the Peneda-Gerês National Park (PNGP) bordering Spain is unspoilt, relatively little known and offers superb hill walking. The leader visited the area in 2005 and 2018 and this interesting and popular meet was planned as a result. Excellent value […]
Contents: President’s Message, Membership Update, Lowstern, Bolivia Meet 2024, Sponsored Abseil for NSAR, Next YRC Journal, Ghar Parau Cards, Next Committee Meeting.