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Meet Report: 9-12 January 2020. The usual Low Hall Garth January Meet recruited well with a handful of prospective members also signed up. Robert Crowther had done his calculations and already bought the non-perishable foods when he heard that there was no water supply to the cottage. Our Secretary and others tried alternative venues without […]

Meet Report: 31 August – 14 September 2019. The Dolomites in northern Italy are undoubtedly one of the most beautiful mountain groups in the world and the seventy-odd via ferrata climbing routes mostly put up during the First World War conflict are an added attraction. The first two weeks of September were selected for the […]

Meet Report: 3-6 August 2019. The team assembled at Bideford. Mike and Helen had decided that a night in the flesh pots of the town would be suitable compensation for a well located B and B. It was not. Others had driven overnight to avoid the traffic and their first experience in the town was […]

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: 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: 12 October – 6 November 2018. After a most enjoyable YRC trek across the roof of Nepal in Dolpo in the autumn of 2016, it was a tough choice of where to go next.  Humla and Zanskar came to mind. However, several authors including Peter Boardman and Kev Reynolds claimed that the Kanchenjunga […]

Meet Report: 4-7 October 2018. The weather looked set fair for a good few days on this lovely island. Seven of us arrived on the Thursday, Mick Borroff, John Brown and Peter Elliott all travelling together, Mike and Helen Smith arrived on the 4 o’clock ferry, the same time as Tim Josephy. Alan Kay was […]