Meet Report: 1-4 February 2018. Due to a family bereavement one of the joint leaders had to stand down and the prospect of Richard Taylor’s cooking and some last minute illness meant that only those with strong constitutions (internal and external) ventured on this meet. Others missed a treat. This was a “no wind” meet […]

Meet Report: 5-7 January 2018. Michael Smith, in need of some exercise post Christmas traversed Lingmoor Fell from the cottage and then joined a select group at the cottage on the Friday evening to sample the excellent soup provided by Robert Crowther. The aroma of this was sufficient to entice Messrs Denny and Trasler back […]

Meet Report: 8-10 December 2017. There was no need for crampons or ice axes but snow all the same, which on a Christmas meet adds to the atmosphere, but made travelling more of a challenge. Twenty three intrepid members and prospective members, and one dog, made it to this year’s Christmas meet through poor road […]

Trip report: 17 August – 6 September 2017. This article is an overview of what we did. For details of the logistics and planning please refer to the full article in the overseas meets section of the archive. You can also watch a video created specially for this meet which will open on the YRC facebook page. We […]

Meet Report: 25-28 August 2017. After arriving on Thursday John helped Alan by cutting the grass so the campers had nice short grass to camp on. Friday dawned fair but cloudy so John, Ros and Alan walked up to Ingleborough via Gaping Ghyll where they called in on the CPC winch meet. They descended Ingleborough […]

Meet Report: 7-9 July 2017. The Ullswater Way with Knobs On Following Storm Desmond’s extensive and destructive flooding throughout Ullswater during December 2015, the local communities developed a low level 20-mile circular walk, The Ullswater Way as part of a regeneration scheme. A higher level version of this Way was chosen for the Club’s 2017 […]

Meet Report: 16-18 June 2017. Friday evening saw most people arriving at the Pondside bunkhouse, after an exciting drive, persevering to find their way from the Hathersage-Hope road turnoff, twisting and turning through Thorpe Farm and down and up to Nether Hurst hamlet, the road would not take any prisoners of low slung vehicles! One […]

Meet Report: 2-5 February 2017. The journey northwards met darkening skies, rain and mist. Moments of optimism were dashed at the Glenshee Ski Centre where only brown grass and heather was visible in the swirling mist. The Centre looked moribund. The small party of seven arrived at the Linn of Dee staying at the Cairngorm […]