Kayaking Scotland Meet 18-19 Sept is planned to go ahead. This will be based on Loch Long, with an overnight stay using / by the Mark Cottage bothy and camping before / after on the East side of Loch Long. Activities in the vicinity include exploring Loch Long and Goil by water, various Corbets and crags. For more more details contact the organisers as per hand book.
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A little treat awaits at http://www.anabasismountaineering.org.uk/ where you will be able to view and download pdfs of ‘The Anabasis in Fifty Objects’ series. For those who find this kind of thing no better than superficial artifice, you will also find downloadable pdfs of 25 years of Anabasis Newletters and Journals – a window into a vanishing cluture perhaps, but nevertheless a joyous romp through the way we were……it has little treasures like these (of Eliminate ‘A’ on Dow): ‘We definitely roped up because I remember taking my wellies off’ and ‘Not often you get peace and quiet in the Hut these days: too many hard climbers reading guide books out loud’ and of a pot-holing trip ‘The portly members of the party did experience some difficulty, but were speeded on their way when a knotted rope was applied vigorously to their rear ends.’ The Rucksack Club might consider an Objects adventure – perhaps someone has one of Fred Pigott’s pebbles………..
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Because Chatsworth has become overgrown and green, this evening’s climbing venue has been moved to Birchen’s, followed by the Robin Hood.
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Stop press: We have had a cancellation. Beudy is now available next weekend (21/22 August). To see all other available dates, go to the Beudy Bookings Calendar on the website.
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Following the success of the 2021 Rucksack Club Calendar (we raised over £3,000 for Urban Uprising – check out https://www.thebmc.co.uk/rucksack-club-and-urban-uprising-team-up-for-2021-calendar as well as generating great publicity for The Club) we’ve decided to go again for 2022. This year we are raising funds for Climbers Against Cancer (CAC) https://www.climbersagainstcancer.org/ Through the worldwide climbing community, CAC aims to increase awareness and raise funds for research in the continued fight against a disease that affects so many. Climbers Against Cancer is a non-profit organisation, with all proceeds donated directly to cancer research facilities throughout the world. More than 50 Rucksack Club members contributed photos last year (either in front of or behind the lens) which is a brilliant advert for the vitality of The Club – Many thanks to everyone who took part (and of course to those who bought one!) We need your photos again this year. Ideally these will feature a Club Member or Associate Member in a relevant outdoor activity (last year we covered climbing, mountaineering, hill-walking, fell-running, MTB, bouldering, ice-climbing, ski-touring, caving and even unicycling! What more ways to ‘Get Out There!’ can we come up with?) Extra points for shots of people in a CAC T-shirt! I’m hoping[…]
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Time for your July pictures if you want them to appear in the Gallery. As ever, send them as an email attachment (singly, or preferably as a zip file) and please rename them for me. Thanking you.
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I climbed my first Munro, Ben Nevis in the Seventies when I was a teenager. My father dragged my brother and I up the tourist path on a hot, sunny summer’s day and I hated it! A few years later I had warmed to the hills and enrolled on a BMC scrambling course on Skye staying at the Glen Brittle Memorial Hut. Of course, it rained all week but we had a fantastic instructor who among other things took me up Sgurr na h-Uamha (the true start/end of the ridge) after we had done Sgurr nan Gillean. The other guys on the course having retreated to the warmth and dry of the Sligachan Hotel. I was hooked! Over the next couple of decades, Easter trips with my work colleagues from PA Technology and family holidays saw me amass 49 Munros. It was clear that I was never going to bag all 282 Munros but I had settled for visiting all parts of the Highlands and doing a sample of these hills. With Matthew and Louise on their first Munro, Stob Ban (Mamores) In 2016, with the kids having finished at school in Wells, I decided to relocate from Somerset to[…]
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The forecast is too grim this afternoon with predicted thunderstorms. I’ll be going to a local wall. You’ll be welcome to join me. The venue still TBD.
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A cancellation and an early return home means High Moss is free up to the 4th of August. It’s great for a two family booking. The kids are off school ! Fancy it ??????
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As the forecast now seems more settled the plan is to climb at Rob’s Rocks on Sunday, I will be at the crag from 11am.
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