Meet Report: 13-15 August. Held at the Agnes Spencer Memorial Hut, Grisedale. The Agnes Spencer hut is situated just off the A592 at Grisedale Bridge. Most members found it without difficulty, some had more trouble. This was attributed to the hut sign blending in with the stone of the cottage. There were 10 people at […]

Meet Report: 19-21 July 2024. The meet gathered on Friday evening at the Climbers Club’s May Cottage in Maiden Wells, some 3 km from Pembroke Town. Helen Brewitt and Tim Josephy climbed at Saddle Head during the afternoon. Despite the better forecast the weather was dank and drizzly but they managed a couple of climbs […]

Meet Report: 21-23 June 2024. The weekend following the Summer Solstice saw eight members head to Mid Wales for the Club’s annual long walk. The meet got off to an inauspicious start for one club member. After leaving a sunny 26°C London, five and a half hours of blindly following Google maps and a 14 […]

Meet Report: 11-13 June 2024. Cool but dry weather graced the meet and encouraged a variety of activities. Solvig was first to the hut and went straight off to Blea Tarn and Side Pike doing battle with the dense bracken. The other three early arrivers headed straight up to Runestone Quarry (see YRCJ 2003 p89-91) where […]

Meet Report: 25 May – 1 June 2024. Held at the Naismith Hut, Elphin. Saturday 25th MayWith three late cancellations, the smaller party began to assemble for another most enjoyable meet at the SMC’s comfortable and well-appointed cottage in Elphin, in the rugged and beautiful Assynt region of NW Scotland. On the way, Peter and […]

Meet Report: May 2024. This was the fourth in a series of YRC meets in the Bolivian Andes.   Whereas the previous ones in the Apolobamba 1988, central Cordilleras Real & Cocapata 1999, and Quimsa Cruz 2010 were exploratory, the first two making first ascents, this fourth one visited more-easily accessed, higher peaks closer to La […]

Meet Report: 10-12 May 2024. Held at Beeches Farm campsite in the Wye Valley. This meet was surely a first for the Yorkshire Ramblers’ Club. It was a small affair but out of the four attending, three were from the distaff side. It all went very well apart from the one input from the fourth […]

Meet Report: 26-28 April 2024. The meet was held at the Conistone village hostel, formerly the old Methodist church. Several members were already in the area having attended the Committee meeting on Thursday at Lowstern. So, on Friday, Mick drove up to Carlingill Bridge in the Howgills and walked the pleasant circuit around the Carlin […]

Meet Report: 6-20 April 2024. Following a well-attended club meet in Tafraout in 2009, an excellent trek across the Jebel Sarhro in 2016 and a meet in 2020 cut short in its prime by Covid-19 after the first week in Tafraout, we returned to the Anti-Atlas area of Morocco having planned a fortnight’s trip in […]

Meet Report: 22-24 March 2024. Held at FRCC’s Brackenclose Hut. The author of this report exhorted (harangued?) the meet attendees to elevate their offering about their activities to a level of purple prose not previously experienced by our readers. Several questioned the meaning of purple prose. Here is an example from Simon Jenkins, extolling Sheffield […]