Category: Member Posts

The Winter Mountaineering meet at Craigallan on 24/25th February is currently full. I will put an update on here if I get any cancellations. Jim Paxman

The Meet Co-ordinator has provided the following update [21 January]: A circular walk of approximately 17km taking in Ward’s Stone. Meet 9.30am in Littledale [Forrest of Bowland], roadside parking near Cragg farm (SD545617). Terrain: field paths, moorland tracks and rough moorland traverse. The walk takes in high Bowland tops and visits the highest point in the Forest of Bowland. Anyone interested contact meet co-ordinator as in Meetstaff. Note this is a change of start from that advertised in December’s Meetstaff.  

Bookings over the next couple of months are:- 20/21 January – whole hut – Club Meet (Gareth Llewellyn) 27/28 January – 10 spaces booked by Skyline MC 3/4 February – 11 spaces booked by Red Rope MC 10/11 February – 11 spaces booked by Phil Deakin (no relation!) 17/18 February – 4 spaces booked by Loughton MC 10/11 March – whole hut – Dan Hostford 21/22 April – whole hut – Club Meet – Bill Deakin/Steve Gregory) Please let me or Steve know if you intend using the hut. Thanks

Occasionally members ask if they can change the Meetstaff format they receive. I have received the following from our Membership Secretary [Carole Smithies] that clarifies how to implement such a change: “If a member wants to get a hard copy paper version of MS, or to cease to get hard copy of MS, then he/she needs to let me know and I’ll update the database, which includes an MS print or not tick box which enables me to send the posting list to the printers.” Andy Tomlinson Website Secretary

This post has been submitted on behalf of Peter Edgerton. Due to lack of interest from others a potential opportunity has arisen to stay at Glen Feshie bunkhouse between Sun 18th and Fri 23rd of February, departure on the Friday. The bunkhouse accommodates up to 16 people and costs £1000 for the week. If interested ii ether the full or part of the 6 days please contact Peter and he will coordinate the booking. Costs to be shared equally between the number of people staying. Peter’s contact email details: rowanho@dircon.co.uk

John Driskell IDM Col poster revised Jan11 Click on the link to find details of the next Indoor Meet on 6th February at Heaton Moor Sports Club. Please note that there will be a gear auction run by Gerry Gee: if you have any decent used gear that you no longer require, please bring it along.

Hiya SunRockers! We’ve got about 20 signed up and I’ve now booked the accommodation, so here’s an update: Dates: Saturday 3rd to Saturday 10th March Accommodation: We’ll be staying at Xalet de Prades: www.xaletdeprades.com This is somewhat like the place we stayed in Finestrat in 2017, in as much as it is a collection of posh wooden houses. We’ve currently got 2 of the large ones plus options on a couple of extras for flexible additions depending on numbers. We’ve also get dedicated use of a communal room for eating / meeting / socialising plus a bit of spa time included, and there’s a restaurant on site if we fancy a break from cooking (or indeed fancy sacking cooking all together!) Price approx. £130 for the week. In terms of location, this is pretty central: Vilanova de Prades 14mins; Cornudella 19mins; Arboli 33mins; La Mussara 23mins; Mont-Ral 33mins Flights: Ryanair are currently showing £60 return Manchester to Barcelona on those dates – search skyscanner.net for more options Climbing: The Sierra de Prades aka ‘Costa Dorada’ or ‘Tarragona’ includes iconic crags like Siurana, Margalef, Montral, Arboli and La Mussara amongst the offerings, see http://www.climb-europe.com/RockClimbingSpain/Sierra-de-Prades.html . With over 5,000 routes in the[…]

The weather was kind to the participants with a generally dry day (plus a couple of short snow flurries) and an almost following wind. 23 people completed the single Marsden-Edale, plus around a dozen doublers and (amazingly) 2 people completing a double-double (see separate post). A further 20+ people did various partial routes and various other members were spotted in the pub. Granville’s Glorious Soup Kitchen was greatly appreciated at Longdendale and again on the Snake – many, many thanks Granville! All in all, a great day out and another roaring success. Here are some more pics from Rae Pritchard

Hi All, the Whitely Nab at Charlestown is now an Italian restaurant so we will go to the Royal at Hayfield after the walk instead. Anyone is welcome to join us, walking or not. Around 3pm, roughly.

Congratulations to Helen and Mike on completing the “double/ double”!! Keith (The President) writes: “A fresh looking Helen Pritchard and Mike Zeidan having just completed a quadruple Marsden/ Edale starting at 6am Friday and finishing about 3 pm on the Saturday afternoon at the Ramblers Rest. Incredible effort following in the footsteps of Geoff Bell and John Crummett who I believe did a double/ double in 1994. Congratulations to you both!” (apologies, this post first erroneously said Miles – bad typing on our President’s behalf)