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The Club Photo Night is on 5th December at Heaton Moor Sports Club at 7.30pm. Come and see photos of Norway (Ian Helliwell), Nepal (Alison Tapley), and the East Tirol around the Defereggen valley (myself), followed by Gerry Gee leading the Gear Auction of unwanted kit, and John Beatty’s photos. Gareth will be in charge of the raffle, so please be generous with donations to the raffle prizes. Proceeds in aid of the Christie Childrens Cancer Fund. Christmassy nibbles. Bar open as usual. £4 for members. Did I mention that there’s a raffle too?

I am planning an “Alpine” Meet next summer in the Western French Pyrenees. This would be between the 4th and 12th of August, in the vicinity of Lescun, south of Oloron-Sainte-Marie. The exact details have yet to be defined but the idea would be to give a glimpse of the limestone area of the Aspe valley. This is a fine place for climbing, walking, cycling and probably kayaking. Climbing The excellent Aiguilles d’Ansabère provide some very nice multi-pitch climbing on sculpted limestone. The most famous route is the Spigolo on the petite Aiguille, supposedly reminiscent of the Dollies (or the other way around) The other big spot in the valley for long multi-pitch is Pène d’Udapet, once again on good limestone There are quite a few more routes on the Chemin de la Mâture (some nice slabs there) More climbing crags around: http://grimpeursbearnais.blogspot.de http://escalade64.fr Mountaineering Lescun Cirque is a bit poor in terms of long quality mountaineering routes, but there’s still some stuff out there like the Larangus Arete on Grand Billare However going over to the next Ossau valley stands Pic du Midi d’Ossau with all sorts of routes of every difficulty. Some topos here: http://www.remi-thivel.com/toposmontagnepyreneesnord.html and here https://www.camptocamp.org/waypoints/176533/fr/pic-du-midi-d-ossau[…]

I have fixed the duplicate post problem so hopefully you won’t be bombarded with emails now. Thanks for your patience. Ian

Apologies for the duplicate posts and emails. I am trying to get to the bottom of it. Thanks for your patience – Ian

any other takers for Giants this Thursday need to know asap so i can get helmets sorted. cheers Wilf

Quick blast round the local tops and then posted this straight from my phone.

I have just been advised by Welsh Water that the water supply to Beudy may be disrupted this weekend. WW have had reports from other users about loss of pressure and WW are doing some works to try and rectify the problem. Please note that it is only a possibility and by the time you read this the problem may well have been sorted. However, and just in case, watch out for loss of pressure (particularly using the showers) and you may get some brownish water coming through if WW have had to turn the supply off. When there has been an issue in the past, I’ve filled the kettles up from the stream!

Hi All Now, when you add a post using the “Rich Post” function (if you are logged in, it is under the “Members” menu), the photos you add will be large by default. Here are a couple of examples: and another: Also, all recent “Member posts” have been updated with the large photos (see “Some photos of the Annual Dinner” post for example): https://test.rucksackclub.org/category/member-posts/ Any problems, let me know. Keep on posting…