Meet Report: 10-12 September 2021. Times change and with them this meet. Your scribe recalls sodden weekends, steaming aged tweeds worn by seasoned climbers, and the most senior members hunched round the fireplace being characteristic of Joint Meets. Well-known attendees I recall are Ivan Waller, AB Hargreaves, Cliff Downham, George Spenceley and his guest Harry […]

Meet Report: 20-22 August 2021. It was a damp but warm August day in Clapham, when the majority of the 25 attendees of this meet arrived at our beloved Lowstern. Alan Linford led the charge, arriving the previous day. Helen Smith, who arrived earlier on Friday, did a short walk from the hut to Austwick […]

Meet Report: 6-8 August 2021. This was our first fully accommodated meet in 18 months, so we were quite excited to get back to normal club activities. Even though the weather forecast was terrible, 11 brave souls, including Imogen and Ged Campion, who arrived 24hrs later, met up at the Torrent Walk Campsite where we […]

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: 11-13 June 2021. By sunset ten members, a guest and six PMs had pitched tents at the beautifully situated but busy campsite on the shore of Llyn Gwynant. It was somewhat dreary but we were all encouraged by the very promising forecast for the rest of the weekend. Saturday dawned rather overcast and […]

Meet Report: 21-23 May 2021. After a long and challenging winter of uncertainty, Covid restrictions and minimal club activity the first meet was .always going to be a joyous occasion – sadly nobody told the weather! Following on from the best practice set out in 2020, it was another camping meet, this time at Stablefell […]

Meet Report: 5 December 2020. “He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.” Elbert Green Hubbard 1915. Is there anything you can’t do by Zoom? So far this year, the club has held committee meetings, the AGM/EGM and a series of quizzes by this ubiquitous program. The time had […]

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: 11-13 August 2020. Challenging times call for thinking outside of the box solutions and by early evening 10 members, a PM and guest had arrived at the Usha Gap campsite in Muker. This must be the first YRC UK mainland camping meet for some considerable time. Covid-19 had played havoc with the meet […]

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 […]