Category: Member Posts

An update to say thank you for members who have sent in photos after Dom’s and my requests. I have added all I have received to date onto the Gallery…it is starting to look good and if anyone has any others to send me up until the end of this month [August], please do. Remember they must be high resolution with MONTH taken, TiITLE and NAME of PHOTOGRAPHER and please send to photos@rucksackclub.org Thanks, Andy

Because of the severe fires above Dovestone Reservoir our walks on Wednesday 29th July had to be changed. We have decided to walk from Friden SK172607. Walks are on the Rucksack Club Meets Calendar, if you want to check the route. Gerry G and Gerry O

Anyone want to join me from 17th October till 30th Oct. for some sport climbing on Greece’s most convenient island climbing venue.Flights from Manchester to Kos are going for around £400 and accommodation is around £550 for a 2-bed apartment. John Warby.

Due to the devastating fires and associated footpath closures, the evening climbing on 22nd July is being moved to Running Hill Pits https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/running_hill_pits-152/

I have now uploaded the photos I have received for April-June this year and they can be accessed via https://rucksackclub.org/gallery-overview/ Once again, I am grateful to members who have sent me photographs, as well as our Meetstaff Editor who has forwarded all the photographs he received. If any members have other photographs taken over April-June that they would like adding, please email them to photos@rucksackclub.org and please ensure the name of the person who took the photo is included along with the month taken and, importantly, a title!  Andy

Beudy is now available for the weekend of 25th/26th July. Let me know if you want to book any spaces.

It’s busy over the next few weeks. Veterans in Sefton have an exclusive booking from this Wednesday (15th) to Friday (17th) and then our old friends OBEC (who have been coming to Beudy for over 50 years) have booked the hut for the weekend (18th/19th). The following week, the hut is full from Monday (20th) to Wednesday (22nd) with a group from Climbers Against Cancer, and that weekend (25th/26th) the Wayfarers have booked 12 spaces. That leaves 5 bunk spaces available. The hut is empty during the week commencing 27th and then we have Helen Elmore’s Club Meet on the weekend of 1st/2nd August. Details are in Meetstaff – contact Helen direct to book. For the rest of August, Strathaven MC have made an exclusive booking for the weekend of the 8th/9th, Peak CC have booked 11 spaces the following weekend (15th/16th) and the Black and Tans MC have booked the hut exclusively for the weekend of the 22nd/23rd for their anniversary weekend to celebrate their continued existence. At the moment, the hut is empty on the following Bank Holiday weekend (29th – 31st). As ever, let me know if you want to go to Beudy when it is available.

I’d like to remind Members who (for whatever reason) turn up to Beudy without a hut key, that the key kept in the combination keybox MUST be put back in the box when they are not in the hut. I had the silly situation last night when a new Member (who had applied for a key but not yet received it) turned up just before midnight to find no-one in the hut and the key missing from the box. Turns out that another Member without his own key, staying not in the hut but in a van outside, had taken the key for some reason and not put it back.

Sadly, I have had to cancel this meet through lack of interest. I have held on as long as possible without paying any deposit but could wait no longer. Sorry about this – I will think of something else for the future which will hopefully get more interest. Peter Edgerton