A minor anniversary has just passed. Nothing too grand, but it might be worth noticing that we have just passed the milestone of having 20 years-worth of Trip Reports on the Club website.
Our first website was made about 1999, but only hosted a few pictures. The next version, under Simon Weston’s leadership, began to feature Trip Reports from 2004. The first York MC Trip Report records a day trip to the Lake District when 6 or 7 of us went up Red Pike http://www.yorkmc.org.uk/archive/reports/red_pike/ The report itself is not dated, but my log book tells me it was 15th August 2004.
Other reports that year include Mountainbiking in Galloway / a night in Priest’s Hole cave / Bagpipes on the Fannaichs / and an alcohol-fuelled (and very interesting) weekend in Killin and the Aonach Eagach of Stob Ghabhar.
Twenty years on, our website must hold somewhere in the low hundreds of Trip Reports. The archive spans from Kyrgyzstan to Cape Wrath. It is not indexed; and not directly search-able (step forward please, any digitally-able archivist !!). However if you google (eg) “York Mountaineering Forcan Ridge” it is possible to locate reports on a particular subject.
The readers of Trip Reports are not only local folk. We once had an email from a follower in Belgium, and a report on Tower Ridge produced a couple of enquiries for advice. Trip Reports are of course retained indefinitely on the website, and they can be viewed by anyone. So in contrast to a transient and private whatsapp picture, the Reports are something of a ‘shop window”. And there’s a lot of stuff in the shop nowadays. !!
ANDREW
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