Category: Member Posts

Gareth Llewellyn’s Meet at Beudy is not taking place now, so the hut is available on the weekend of 22/23 January. Please let me know if you wish to book. Bill

Unfortunately the Introduction to Caving meet planned for this weekend has had to be cancelled due to Covid. If anybody can step in and organise a meet for this weekend (Jan 15th or 16th) please contact the Outdoor Organiser ASAP.      

I’m going to pull together some of the pictures you sent in last year to create a ‘Best of 2021’ gallery, which will highlight the many activities Members have been involved in, despite the restrictions imposed by the Covid pandemic. I’d like to include some from last month (at present, I just have a couple of pictures) I’m quite happy to include some other pictures – maybe ones you have posted elsewhere or just left them in your phone. I’d like to go to press mid January, so let me have any contributions as soon as you can. Thanks Bill

Happy New Year! Apart from Gareth Llewellyn’s Meet on 22/23 January and a booking from the YRC the following weekend, Beudy is available anytime in the coming three months. Let me or Steve Gregory know if you want to make a booking. Bill

The weather this Wednesday looks good, so join me for a walk of just over 12mls starting from Danebridge at 10.00 prompt so that we can be back at the Wincle Beer Company Bar before last orders at 4pm…the seating is outside [bring something warm to pick up when back!].  Full route: Danebridge, Hangingstone, Roaches, Meerbrook, Gun Hill and Turners Pool; 12.25ml Coordinator: Andy Tomlinson   Start: Roadside, Danebridge SJ965652 Maps: – 1:25,000: White Peak W – 1:50,000: 118 Macclesfield & Stoke-on-Trent & 119 Buxton, Matlock & Dove Dale Andy Tomlinson [2nd January 2022]

Marsden-Edale 8th January 2022 Due to the current uncertainty around additional restrictions to control the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, this information may change at short notice. Please keep an eye on the website for last minute changes.   The annual post-Christmas romp on the moors!  Meet as usual at Marsden at the end of Wessenden Rd (GR SE048107 OS South Pennines OL 21 map) for a 7:45 start – finish at/near The Ramblers in Edale.  Note, a packed Ramblers is not an easy place to social distance so some form of outdoor check-in will be arranged for ticking off the finishers.   Granville will be doing a reduced form of his world famous soup kitchen again at Woodhead (car park at the start of the old road to Glossop) and later at Upper North Grain on the Snake Pass. Granville writes: “Because of covid, and the fact that I really do not have proper washing up facilities for the soup bowls and spoons for the next people, I propose to do tea, coffee, chocolate and water for bottles. Along with a plentiful supply of cakes and biscuits. Can all participants please carry their own mugs for brews[…]

Great News! We’ve beaten off stiff competition from Netflix and Amazon Prime to bring you the EXCLUSIVE first screening of Season 3 of the Virtual Rucksack Club Slideshows. “Season 3” will start in January and will be beamed live into your living rooms on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month – Here’s the draft running order as it stands at the moment: January 11 – A Moroccan Double Bill featuring A Bill & Dom’s Excellent Adventure in Taghia and a chance to Rock the Kasbah in the Anti Atlas January 25 – A trip up the North Face of the Matterhorn (a.k.a. Le Grand Toblerone) with Dave Sykes and Stan Halstead February 8 – Desert Climbing in SW USA featuring the iconic Moonlight Buttress along the way with Jane Gallwey and Sam Simpson February 22 – The Life and Times of The Anabasis Mountaineering Club – A 60 year adventure with a Happy Ending with Dave Atkinson and guest stars March 8 – An Alpine Apprenticeship – A journey from MUMC Fresher to the Summit of The Matterhorn with Molly Worth March 22 – Mystery Guest – (ie I haven’t pinned anyone down yet, but there’s plenty of[…]

Hi All, I am cancelling the Club Hogmanay meet at Craigallan due to the uncertainties of Covid/omicron/restrictions in Scotland.  Here’s hoping for better in 2022.”   Thanks Ellie

A rather nice blanket and a new towel ( still has the label on ) left at High Moss. Let me know if they belong to you and I will try to return them. Steve Beswick