Meet Report: 31 January – 2 February 2020. Twelve members of the European Union gathered at Helyg for a wet and windy meet. By the end of the evening they had all quit (pace M Smith). Luckily they were all made of stern stuff and it was only the EU they left, not the YRC. […]

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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 […]