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. Attending: Barbara Salmon, Arthur Salmon, Conrad Tetley, Beverley Eastwood, Mick Borroff, Tim Josephy, Helen Brewitt, Helen Smith, Michael Smith, Christine […]

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 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 see blue sky appear at […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Meet Report: 8-10 September 2020. Members began arriving at the Low Greenside Farm campsite from late morning on Tuesday. Those who arrived early enough walked in small parties or alone up Smardale past the 15th century packhorse bridge and into the nature reserve. At least one, lacking spectacles and unable to read the closure notices, […]

Meet Report: 17-26 July 2020. Collectively 50 of us walked and ran 1165 miles (1874km), cycled 413 miles (665km) and there were 122 visits to trig points. As with the covid 19 statistics, the figures are known to be far higher. Kayaking in Sweden and caving in Yorkshire were also on the agenda. Congratulations to […]