A dip into the Club Journals, 1914:
A First Visit to Glen Brittle

Welcome to this month’s dip into the journals, the 1914 edition and the last of the n4 decades. 
The club has been established for a dozen years and members have ranged far and wide in 1913:

* the Dauphinée and Écrins;
* the Pryénées;
* the Southern Tyrol, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire;
* the Engadine;
* Hardanger;
* the Oberland (twice).

Nearer home J Rooke Corbett encouraged members to enjoy Christmas in the hills. 
There’s a report on climbs on Stanage High Neb written as a new crag for Manchester Climbers, along with thoughts on how to write a climbing guide that is easy to follow, applied to Laddow, long a club favourite.
Plus a walk along the Northern Pennines ‘the route (54 miles) may be covered by strong walkers in two days by sleeping out’, with some ideas on extending it South – a proto Pennine Way.

However, my pick is an article on a two week trip to Skye – with plenty of walking and scrambling, much attention to travel times and train fares, and a meeting with Harold Raeburn, an air of an encounter with Obi-Wan Kenobi about this.  Use this link to read the article.

And the complete 1914 journal via this link.

This month there’s a Christmas bonus, an article from the 1904 club report.  As well a list of members and meet reports (including Laddow of course), there are Notes on North Wales, read it via this link.

That’s all for now, Andy will be back next month in the twenty-first century, 2015.

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