Meet Report: 30 March-6 April 2022. Eight members went on a week’s hut-to-hut ski tour round Norway’s Langsua National Park, west of Lillehammer, encountering fewer than ten people but several hundred reindeer. For members returning from the rather wet and grey Costa Blanca meet with only a few days to reorganise kit for this ski […]

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: 17-20 February 2022. Prior to a meet the forecast is eagerly awaited. MWIS indicated that on the Thursday, the day on which most would be travelling, the wind on the hills would be typically 80 to 100 mph (and gusts up to 120 mph) but easing, slowly, to 50 to 70 with either […]

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: 7-9 January 2022. On the Friday evening a small but nevertheless high quality section of the YRC gathered at Low Hall Garth, welcomed by baked potatoes and a fire which had been burning since early afternoon. The forecast for Saturday morning was rain and it did not disappoint. Fortified by Robert’s full English, […]

Meet Report: 10-12 December 2021. The Christmas meet returned to the Boarshurst Outdoor Education Centre in Greenfield, located just on the fringe of Saddleworth Moor. The centre is well appointed and sleeps 32 people in two dormitories. On the Friday evening members arrived and were welcomed by soup and a roll prepared by Becca Humphreys, […]

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 […]