A Dip into the Club Journals – 1973 – Eddie Birch; Fitzroy
The 1973 Journal is full of great articles making the choice of just one difficult. There were several based on[…]
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Category: Classic Journal Articles
A Dip into the Club Journals – 1983 – Mike Cudahy, The Pennine Way in Three Days and Five Years
Just in time for this month’s Dip Into The Club Journals – it’s 1983 and Mike Cudahy’s account of his[…]
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A dip into the Club Journals: from 1993 Just a Bit Difficult by Peter Harding
Between 1945 and 1950 Peter Harding was one of the leading climbers in the UK, who was also credited with[…]
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A Dip into the Club Journals: from 2003, East Greenland by Jim Hall
The second in our monthly visits to the archives. This time twenty years ago, so from the 2003/4 journal here’s[…]
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A Dip into the Club Journals: from 2013, Alaska by Will Harris
We are relaunching the “Dip into the Club Journals” (previously known as “Classic Journal Articles”) in a more systematic way.[…]
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Classic RCJ Articles: the Club’s third hut…Haute Hut Cuisine and The Climber’s Grand Tour
From 1945 to the opening of Beudy Mawr in 1948 the Club found temporary refuge in a small tin hut[…]
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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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