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 […]

Meet Report: 7-19 March 2020. Following well-attended club meets in Tafraout in 2009 and an excellent trek across the Jebel Sarhro in 2016, we returned to the Anti-Atlas area of Morocco having planned a fortnight’s meet in two halves. A dozen members flew into Agadir and hired cars to travel to the market town of […]

Meet Report: 6-8 December 2019. It is that time of the year when there is excitement in the air and everything feels special and this meet was no exception. To spend time with friends from scattered places around Britain for laughs and chat is something that the YRC is good at. We also made some […]

Meet Report: 16-17 November 2019. Following a long period of exceptionally heavy rain and in the run up to an election, 64 members and guests assembled for the 2019 Annual Dinner. By common consent political and Brexit-related topics were largely avoided. Despite indifferent weather the event was the usual social success with plenty of exercise […]

Meet Report: 10-13 October 2019. Is it connected with memories of Yorkshire’s maritime adventurers such as Cook and Scoresby or recalling crossings to mainland Europe en route to the Alps that make those few minutes on the Corran ferry set meets on Ardgour and Ardnamurchan apart from the usual run of meets? On Thursday, the three cars […]

Meet Report: 20-22 September 2019. The joint weekend meet began with 20 people sitting down for a welcoming meal at Lowstern. Both clubs were enjoying being sociable around a roaring fire: a good time was had by all! Michael Smith told us of his afternoon of ornithology at Attermire Scar. Colin Smith, Steve Auty, Bruce […]

Meet Report: 23-25 August 2019. This annual meet went well and gave all the novices chances to improve their climbing and caving. For James it was his first experience of caving. On Friday, Michael walked over Ingleborough and Simon Fell to check the water levels in the Alum pot area. They were rather too high […]

Meet Report: 20-25 June 2019. Seven couples returned to the Derwentwater Hotel in Portinscale, used two years previously for the Club’s annual Social meet on half board terms for four nights; three for Peter and Ann, Tim and Elaine. We were pleased that Joan Armstrong’s family had persuaded her to attend following the death of […]

Meet Report: 14-16 June 2019. Eight members assembled on Friday evening at the Climbers’ Club hut Ynys Ettws, ideally and idyllically situated for climbing on the many and varied crags in the Llanberis Pass. Sadly light rain had already made its presence felt and the forecast was for rain all night. Saturday morning revealed the […]