From 1945 to the opening of Beudy Mawr in 1948 the Club found temporary refuge in a small tin hut[…]
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Category: Classic Journal Articles
Classic RCJ Articles: Skye’s Cuillin Ridge in Summer
After Joe Fisher’s slideshow of his winter traverse of the Cuillin Ridge (still available in the Virtual Meets Gallery) I[…]
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Classic RCJ Articles…Tal y Braich, the second Club hut…and a breakthrough on Cloggy
Five years after the Club’s lease of Cwm Eigiau ended in 1921 a sub-committee was formed to find a replacement[…]
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Classic RCJ Articles…two more articles on the first Club hut [Cwm Eigiau] from 1918
In an earlier post in this series Andy Tomlinson gave us Tim Wyldbore’s amusing account of Cwm Eigiau’s transformation from[…]
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Classic RCJ Article: Recuperamo On the Walker Spur by Nick Wallis [2006]
In his On the Hill With, Nick Wallis made reference to his ascent of the Walker Spur. Along with fellow[…]
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Classic RCJ Article: Sailing to the Faeroes by Boece Cardus and John Payne [2004]
In his ‘On the hill with…’ Geoff Bell recalls that his President’s Meet on the Faeroes in 2004 was a[…]
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Classic RCJ article: The Scottish Four-thousands by Philip Brockbank and Frank Williamson [1955]
Philip Brockbank joined the Club in 1931, after his student days in the infant MUMC. It was said that few[…]
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A Short History of the Rucksack Club 1902-1939; Philip Brockbank and Eric Byrom
This Short History is a variation on the theme of Classic RCJ articles. It is an invaluable source of historical[…]
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Classic RCJ Article: Eustace Thomas, Manchester Mountaineer by Steve Dean [2002]
Eustace Thomas was a member who had a significant impact on many aspects of mountaineering and the Rucksack Club,[…]
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Eustace Thomas and The Welsh 3,000s and more
Joe Fisher spotted an article on the Welsh 3s https://www.ukhillwalking.com/articles/destinations/how_to_do_the_welsh_3000s_challenge-12857 and posted the following question on FaceBook: From reading this[…]
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