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Marsden – Edale 8th January 2022 – update.

6th January 2022 Ian Helliwell Archived

Marsden – Edale 8th January 2022 – update. I am withdrawing as the coordinator for this year’s Marsden – Edale and will not be taking part, but the meet will go ahead in a restricted form coordinated by Gareth Llewellyn. In taking this decision, a I have considered a number of factors: The rapid spread of the Omicron version of covid is putting untenable pressure on the NHS and we all have a responsibility to do what we can to reduce the risks of transmission – there has been a 500% increase in infections in just the last week across the North West and High Peak Maintaining social distancing over a twenty-odd mile tough walk will be important to avoid breathing in particles from others and could be difficult when puffing and panting if close together up the steep bits, so care is needed… I do appreciate that, mostly, people are strung out across the moors! The crowded pub at the end is a perfect place for transmission (obviously individuals can opt to not go into the Ramblers). To put the icing on the cake, there are now no trains from Edale on Saturday due to engineering works! […]

Marsden-Edale 8th January 2022

31st December 2021 Ian Helliwell Member Posts

Marsden-Edale 8th January 2022 Due to the current uncertainty around additional restrictions to control the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, this information may change at short notice. Please keep an eye on the website for last minute changes. The annual post-Christmas romp on the moors! Meet as usual at Marsden at the end of Wessenden Rd (GR SE048107 OS South Pennines OL 21 map) for a 7:45 start – finish at/near The Ramblers in Edale. Note, a packed Ramblers is not an easy place to social distance so some form of outdoor check-in will be arranged for ticking off the finishers. Granville will be doing a reduced form of his world famous soup kitchen again at Woodhead (car park at the start of the old road to Glossop) and later at Upper North Grain on the Snake Pass. Granville writes: “Because of covid, and the fact that I really do not have proper washing up facilities for the soup bowls and spoons for the next people, I propose to do tea, coffee, chocolate and water for bottles. Along with a plentiful supply of cakes and biscuits. Can all participants please carry their own mugs for brews[…]

High Moss available August Bank Holiday Weekend

25th August 2021 Ian Helliwell Member Posts

Steve Beswick writes: High Moss has room for you! Or some of you anyway! An early return home of a current party plus a late cancellation of a party booked in for the weekend (due to a covid ping) means High Moss is available over the August Bank Holiday. That’s Friday 27th Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th of August. Get in Touch if you are interested.

Update on email notifications

31st July 2021 Ian Helliwell Notices

A quick update on the issues we were having with notification emails being reported as spam (as described in the email from John Farrow yesterday). Detailed analysis showed this was stemming from the btinternet service. All other email services – gmail, outlook, yahoo etc – were fine with our notification emails going out direct to subscribed users. However, BT has a specialised “artificial intelligence” spam detector which decided that it could not completely verify the validity of them so was either flagging them up to users as suspicious, or in 11 out of 52 mailboxes, was blocking them completely and reporting to our hosting provider that we were sending spam. The solution to the BT problem has been to now route the emails through a commercial email service and to provide certification and tracability that proves-positive they come from where they say the come from, and we are who we say we are! Phew! A lot of trouble for 11 out 482 subscribed users, but we are now squeeky clean. Tim Taylor and I will follow up with the btinternet users just to make sure they are all getting through now. Just a reminder, if you don’t want the notifications[…]

Reminiscences of Doug Scott

12th March 2021 Ian Helliwell Featured Meets

David Nightingale has shared his personal reminiscences of Doug scott in this excellent article: DOUG SCOTT – some personal reminiscences by David Nightingale Note: you will need to be logged-in to the site to see this content.

Testing again

10th August 2020 Ian Helliwell Archived

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Another test

9th August 2020 Ian Helliwell Archived

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Test post

9th August 2020 Ian Helliwell Archived

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We need your photos!

10th May 2020 Ian Helliwell Member Posts

Calling all Members: As Bill Deakin mentioned on the video call this week, we need your photos! Take a look at the shiny new gallery on the website – this currently features “a year in pictures” of 2018 and 2019 and serves as an impressive “shop window” for the Club. We want to continue to build on these and update the gallery on a regular basis. So, dig out those pictures. Please email photos (and tell us who, where and when) to photos@rucksackclub.org

Memories of the 1985 Karrimor race

10th May 2020 Ian Helliwell Member Posts, Members Tales

For a blast from the past, Ged Cudahy recommends watching the video of the 1985 Karrimor International Mountain Marathon. It features the likes of John Richardson, Mike Cudahy and the infamous Joss Naylor. Here is a link to the video on YouTube (click here) and, ouch, that does look painful John!