Category: Member Posts

A cancellation means that the hut is available this weekend. Let me know how many places you want to book!

As we now have a gap in the meets calendar at the end of April, it seems a waste of the longer daylight hours and potentially fine spring weather not to put on a meet! So I’m proposing a reboot of the classic Etherow Watershed hike on Saturday 26 April 2025. A regular feature on the RC meets programme, the EW hasn’t been done by the club (I think) since those last few innocent weeks pre-COVID19 in Feb 2020. So it’s well due a revival! (And this hike was my first encounter with the Rucksack Club, way back in 2013, where the photo is from, although I didn’t end up joining the club until last year.) For those not yet in the know, the Etherow Watershed is a walk of about 35 miles (56km) with around 4000 ft (1250m) elevation around the edge of the drainage basin of the River Etherow. It starts and finishes at Hobson Moor Quarry, Mottram, then goes via Laddow, Black Hill, Holme Moss, Woodhead, Bleaklow, Coombes Edge, and returning to Hobson Moor about 12 hours after departing. With it being a circular route there are plenty of opportunities to take a shortcut back to the[…]

Thanks to all members who submitted photos for the final 4 months of 2024. They can now be viewed by clicking on the link below. Once in the Gallery if you click on a photo, it enlarges and you can scroll through the rest in the larger format easily.  I am certain there are many more photos sitting on members phones and home computers…please have a search and send in so they can be added to the Gallery. Please email to: photos@rucksackclub.org and ensure you label with month taken, title of the photo and who took it! Finally, it would be great if members just send in photos as they are taken [including the information requested]. In that way, the Gallery can be kept bang up to date! The gallery can be found via the “Get Out There!” menu or by clicking this link: https://rucksackclub.org/gallery-overview/

Karen Hostford is now looking after the bookings at High Moss. Karen can be reached on highmoss@rucksackclub.org Members can also contact Karen using the telephone number in the handbook. Thank you to everyone. Steve B

Really sorry but we have to rearrange the MTB meet. New date June 6/8th. High Moss. Please let us know before 4th June if you are joining us and any dietary preferences. M&J

This is how it’s looking at Beudy for the next couple of months. Ian Wilson’s annual Mines Meet is taking place this weekend (7-9 Feb). If your inclination is to stay above ground, Dan Calverley will be in residence next weekend (14-16 Feb) with another Club Meet – look out for news on the airwaves or contact Dan direct. Lancaster University Mountaineering Club have booked the whole hut for the following weekend (21-23 Feb). The month ends with Ellie Tristam and her family at Beudy (28 Feb- 3 Mar) but there is still plenty of room. Lots of availability in March – the only booking is a mid-week Veterans in Sefton group session (5-7). In April, our old friends Peak Climbing Club have booked the main dorm (11 spaces) for the weekend of 4-6. Margaret Hart and her guest will also be there. The following weekend (11-13) sees the return of OBEC for a whole hut booking (OBEC have been coming to Beudy for well over 50 years). At present, the hut is empty over the Easter break. Phil Deakin (no relation), another regular, has booked the whole hut for the weekend of 25-27. As ever, just let me know[…]

The annual working meet at Beudy, scheduled for the weekend of 31 May/1June, will now take place on the weekend of 14/15 June. This is due to a clash of dates.

The Rucksack Club Completions List aims to record the success of Club members in a variety of mountain activities – currently Alpine mountaineering, hill walking and hill running. I was bequeathed the list by the late Gordon Adshead, who made valiant efforts to record the significant achievements of members, particularly in documenting completions of hill lists such as the Munros. I have taken his list and added a few new categories, mostly hill running, as well as separating the completion records for each list into separate spreadsheet pages. Unfortunately the lists are far from complete, partly because they were begun quite recently in the history of the Club, partly because they have concentrated on just a proportion of Club activities and partly because not all events, even in recent years, were recorded. I therefore appeal to anyone who knows of significant achievements that are not included to let me know, so that I can add them. Clearly it would take a large amount of research to extend the records into the early years of the Club; that is an open opportunity. But for more recent years please just tell me what you’ve done! You might ask: why do this? Whilst[…]

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