Meet Report: 2-4 September 2022. By Friday evening most of the meet had arrived at Lowstern. A populous tented village had sprung up outside and the kitchen was busy with people cooking their evening meals. During the afternoon several parties were out. Mick Borroff climbed Ingleborough from Newby Cote, descending via Gaping Gill and a […]

Meet Report: 15-17 July 2022. Twelve members came to the Star Bunkhouse in Bwlch, South Wales to walk part of the Beacons Way. The weather was really good although it did get hotter during the weekend. Michael and Helen arrived at Bwlch early on Friday and decided to make life easier for themselves on Saturday […]

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. The following is a selection of individual accounts: Arthur Salmon: On Saturday Barbara and Arthur joined up with Carol and […]

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 at the Grange Farm Barn 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 […]

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 […]

Meet Report: 19-21 November 2021 Held 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 […]

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: 23-25 July 2021. By Friday evening 18 members, PMs and guests had arrived at George and Vivienne Burfitt’s beautiful home at Hartlington Mill. Set in 5½ acres of wooded valley, the campsite was in a circular clearing just above the millpond and accessed by a footbridge across Barben Beck (fast flowing despite the […]