The Rucksack Club

MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES COSTA BLANCA

MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES COSTA BLANCA Join us 22nd-29th Feb 2025 at https://www.campinglaguar.com/ for great ridges to scramble along, some Via Ferratas to clamber up, canyons to explore, a range of sport & trad climbing, and opportunities for trail running and cycling (see the Cicerone guide). There are currently 3 more bungalows available to book there, each sleeping 4 people in a double & a bunk room. There’s also space for tents & vans; it’s a great campsite with friendly owners and a bar in the village. Book by email (they speak good English) and mention the Rucksack Club – Ivan and Mari will offer you a discounted rate of €420 for a bungalow for the week. Do contact us for more info – we had a great week there last year. Paul Taylor and Rachel Johnston

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Tuesday Tea

For Tuesday’s lockdown virtual slideshow we are encouraging you to cook and eat daal bat. Eat it before during or afterwards or for the full Nepalese experience, have it for breakfast too.

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The Rucksack Club

“The Wander-Line” 13/7/19

– A New Romantic Line… “We choose… (to swim to Fairfield) …We choose to go (…to Fairfield) in this decade and do other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…!” ???????????? ????????‍???? ????????????‼️ “The Wander-Line” – amble, cruise, drift, float, hike, meander, ramble, roam, saunter, straggle, stray, stroll, traipse, trek, aberrate, circumambulate, deviate, divagate, diverge, gad-about, gallivant, globe-trot, jaunt, maunder, peregrinate, range, rove, circumlocute, circumnutate, follow one’s nose, take to the road, walk the tracks, go direct, run, ramble, stray, veer, deviate, divagate, diverge, err, swerve, get off the track, get sidetracked, go astray, go off on a tangent, talk nonsense.????

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Widdop

Wednesday 6th September – Evening Climbing Meet A high, remote, moorland crag. At 350m altitude, somewhat blustery, midge-ridden and rather grey, our visit to Widdop can add edge to our adage “Get out there…” The new YMC guide to Yorkshire Gritstone (Volume 2) couldn’t praise Widdop more highly. We managed a select few routes (Krypton Route with the additional excellent top-out moves of the Flake, no mild for a Mild VS lead and the varied Curving Crack) before heading along to boulder adventures. Inevitably perhaps the wee-beasties won the war but not before some of us claimed satisfaction on such classics as Pickpocket’s Crack (Andy Stewart pictured), Fagin’s Ridge and Red Edge among others.

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