Category: Featured Meets

The Meetstaff Editor writes: Our fabulous Dunnerdale hut, High Moss, features strongly in the Club’s programme for this July (see photo by Mark Baron): We begin the month (4-6th) with a family-friendly climbing weekend at High Moss Then we have a day walk (12th) traversing the Derbyshire moors, visiting cabins along the way (20 miles with 1000m+ of ascent)  It’s back to High Moss over the weekend of 18th-20th for a family meet. And we end the month (25th-27th) at… High Moss! But this time it’s for an Arts Meet, reviving and broadening a past fixture in the calendar from painting to whatever artistic endeavour inspires our members – perhaps writing, music, acting, crafts, baking, knitting….

Neil Goldsmith, the journal editor, writes: As prime holiday time approaches remember the Journal needs you to contribute. Reports of your trips and exploits written whilst they are fresh in the mind are required. Photos should be the highest resolution possible please. If you want to make the front or back cover, portrait format is best. Remember, the Journal is part of the record of the Club’s activies and provides a valuable reference for future generations. Contributions by December please. Neil  

The Meetstaff Editor writes: Stimulated by the superb weather in May, most of us need little encouragement to get out there, but our June programme provides that extra incentive: We begin (6-8 June) with a meet at our superb Lake District Hut, High Moss, focused on mountain biking. We have two meets over the weekend 13-15 June: the annual working meet at Beudy Mawr, our hut in central Eryri, and a road cycling meet (other activities also encouraged) at High Moss. The working meets are generally convivial occasions, with opportunities to get out onto the hills as well as to spruce up the hut for another year. The High Moss meet will surely be friendly and convivial too, in the true spirit of the Club.  The weekend of 20-12 June is a real highlight in the calendar: our Gogarth Meet. This renown annual occasion has drawn dozens of members and aspirants from far and wide in years past to enjoy the climbing, walking, beach yoga and beach BBQ.  Finally some of our fittest members are in training for an attempt on the Welsh 3000s – all the peaks in Wales over 3000ft – in a continuous round. This will take[…]

Carole Smithies writes: Ann, Tony’s wife has sent the following message: “We will be giving Tony a send-off on Tuesday June 10th at 1.30pm. First quietly at the South Chapel Grenoside Crematorium, Sheffield. S35 8RZ, then perhaps more vigorously at the Old Horns, High Bradfield, S6 6LG Everyone will be welcome at either or both of these gatherings. No formal or sombre dress required. There will be the opportunity for a charitable donation instead of flowers.” Please let me know if you intend to go, so I can let Ann know. Tony Keddie, who joined the Club in 1998, died on Monday 12th May.

This year’s Gogarth Meet is taking place on 21 & 22 June ‘Everest Summitted!’ was the headline from the 2024 Gogarth Meet, as 80 members, family, friends and guests came together to climb the cumulative 8,848m height – raising funds for Climbers Against Cancer https://climbersagainstcancer.org/ in the process. Success was duly celebrated with the traditional BBQ on Porth Dafarch beach. We’re teaming up with CAC again this year for another Summit Push, although as always the actual climbing is entirely optional! Beyond that it’s the same old formula that has served us well for the last twenty years. Come equipped with a rack & rope; a bike; kayak or pair of binoculars; or just a tube of factor 50 and a bucket and spade – whatever you need to ‘Get Out There!’ and work up a thirst / appetite. Bring your friends and family – the more themerrier! In a new twist this year we’ll have some extra guests joining us from the BMC Summer Climbing Meet to add even more buzz on the beach! In terms of logistics, plans will be familiar to anyone who’s been along before:Camping is pre‐booked at Valley of The Rocks Google Maps – you don’t[…]

Carole Smithies writes: I can now now confirm that Don’s funeral will take place at 10am on the 29th of May at Lawnswood Cemetery and Crematorium, Otley Road, Leeds LS16 6AH. We will then gather for refreshments at Weetwood Hall Hotel, Otley Road, Leeds LS16 6PS. If you intend to come, please let me know no later than 21st May, so I can let Don’s family know. There will be a collection at the funeral for the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team. However, if you wish, you can make a donation direct through their website at: llmrt.org Don Smithies, who had been ill for some time, passed away early on the morning of 10th May. Don was a Club member for 69 years, he joined in November 1955.  He will I’m sure, be remembered by his contemporaries as, a “Compleater  of Lists”.

In addition to Carole’s note, the family have supplied a link to a much loved web page – https://derekmcwilliam.muchloved.com/ This provides opportunities to: * to make a donation to Derek’s charity, the John Muir Trust; * to add a reminiscence to the document; * to add a favourite photo of Derek in action. Carole Smithies writes: Derek McWilliam I can now confirm that Derek’s funeral will take place at St Thomas’s Church, Buxton Road, High Lane, Stockport SK6 8DX on the 9th May at 13.30.  There will be refreshments afterwards at the Red Lion in High Lane, across the road from the church. Please let me know if you will be at the funeral, so we can let the family know.  Contact details as in the handbook. Derek McWilliam died on 3rd April at the age of 91.  Derek who joined the Club in 1991, resigned in 2019 because of ill health.  I am sure many members, particularly our Wednesday Walkers will remember Derek.  His partner Ann has specifically asked that no letters of condolence or cards are sent.