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: 3-6 August 2019. The team assembled at Bideford. Mike and Helen had decided that a night in the flesh pots of the town would be suitable compensation for a well located B and B. It was not. Others had driven overnight to avoid the traffic and their first experience in the town was […]

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 […]

Meet Report: 11-19 May 2019. Saturday 11th May The party assembled for another meet at the SMC’s very comfortable and well-appointed converted cottage in Elphin, in the Assynt region of NW Scotland. On the way, Mick got up very early to get to Dalwhinnie, and climbed Geal-Charn and Carn Dearg from Loch Pattack, enjoying 3 […]

Meet Report: 26-28 April 2019. Probably due to being just one week after the Easter weekend, the Spring LHG meet was attended by a select band of members and one prospective member. Friday afternoon saw Team Humphreys clock up a tour de Tilberthwaite, via the newly repaired track previously frequented by the 4×4 crowd, the […]

Meet Report: 3-10 April 2019. Three members arrived a week early for this meet and put in some practice a little further north in Oppdal at the invitation of Knut Tønsberg, principal guest at the 2017 Dinner. Kjetil Tveranger even managed a five-pitch ice climb with Knut. The weather was not ideal after a winter […]

Meet Report: 22-24 March 2019. This meet was based at the Watson Scout Centre in Carlton-in-Cleveland, a small village on the North West fringes of the North Yorkshire Moors. Even before the start of the meet members were already racking up their excursions: Iain and Mick taking in Kildale, primroses, Captain Cook’s monument and the […]

Meet Report: 2-9 March 2019. Anyone flying into Malaga airport in Southern Spain in the spring, can scarcely avoid noticing the snow-capped bulk of the Sierra Nevada looming over Granada, topped by Mulhacén, mainland Spain’s highest peak at 3479m. With hill-walking in the Alpujarras (the Sierra Nevada’s southern slopes) and the Cumbre Verde hills to […]

Meet Report: 8-11 February 2019. ‘Déjà vu‘ is Gaelic for ‘here is the Scottish weather’. The journey northward was straight forward and the forecast suggested a weather front would pass over north east Scotland during late Friday and early Saturday. I imagined we could work round that. The SMC Raeburn Hut is a small but […]