Don’t forget to book your place at the Annual Dinner in Harrogate! Booking is easier all round if you use the form, see the back pages of the latest Meetstaff. I will send you a Word version of the form if requested – just E-mail me on meetstaff@rucksackclub.org to ask.
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The Rucksack Club Completions List aims to record the success of Club members in a variety of mountain activities – currently Alpine mountaineering, hill walking and hill running. I was bequeathed the list by the late Gordon Adshead, who made valiant efforts to record the significant achievements of members, particularly in documenting completions of hill lists such as the Munros. I have taken his list and added a few new categories, mostly hill running, as well as separating the completion records for each list into separate spreadsheet pages. Unfortunately the lists are far from complete, partly because they were begun quite recently in the history of the Club, partly because they have concentrated on just a proportion of Club activities and partly because not all events, even in recent years, were recorded. I therefore appeal to anyone who knows of significant achievements that are not included to let me know, so that I can add them. Clearly it would take a large amount of research to extend the records into the early years of the Club; that is an open opportunity. But for more recent years please just tell me what you’ve done! You might ask: why do this? Whilst[…]
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My apologies, the date for Kath Brierley’s Todmorden Walk Meet is now Saturday 23rd November, not 2nd November as listed in the Handbook and October edition of Meetstaff. I failed to spot the change of date, which was in Kath’s E-mail to me! Andrew Beckett
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Keith and I thought we’d found an excellent base for the meet at the Llanthony campsite adjacent to Llanthony Priory. Unfortunately, we’ve now discovered that the weekend of our meet coincides with the annual Llanthony Festival, which is held in the campsite field. So we thought we’d save Llanthony for another year and change the venue for this August to Cwmdu, north-west of Crickhowell and on the western side of the Black Mountains. There is a campsite here that appears to have good facilities (www.campingbreconbeacons.com ) that is within walking distance of the local inn. Cwmdu provides a good base for the western side of the Black Mountains, making it easy to include the highest point of Waun Fach. For those wanting to stretch their legs a bit, there is a 28km circuit with 1400m of ascent direct from the campsite, traversing Mynydd Llangorse, Mynydd Troed, Waun Fach and Pen Allt-mawr. There are several ways to cut this short or alternatively there is a most attractive round of the hills surrounding Llangorse Lake: Allt yr Easgair, Mynydd Llangorse and Mynydd Troed (21km/ 830m). The Bannau Brycheiniog (I’d better get used to that!) are close at hand also, so there should[…]
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