(Posted on behalf of Eddie Martin) After several years as a member of the York CHA & HF Rambling Club, I joined the York Mountaineering Club in 1949 after my army service which lasted from October 1946 to February 1949. My early memories of outings with the club are of… Continue reading
On Sunday morning, 9th November, there were nine of us (plus 2 canines) who set off from Honister to join a busy footpath to the top of Great Gable. Dave, Donna and Ellie, Linda, Cath, Dolly, Steve, Matthew and me. We did not ask anyone’s permission to walk. We chose… Continue reading
Whilst on my last trip with Ben to Arran we discovered we had a mutual small number of annual leave allowance to use and mooted a autumn weekend somewhere. A few months later neither of has a better offer and booked off a Monday and Tuesday late September with a… Continue reading
“Slack low pressure” Things suddenly looked up after a dreary forecast for 11-12 October. From Drumochter summit, Dolly, Steve, Keith and I were soon enough on the top of Sgairneach Mor, first Lunch; and an hour later Second Lunch on Beinn Udlamain to… Continue reading
(By Tom Evans) For me it was a route on the ‘to have done’ list, yet to convince myself I was prepared to put it on the ‘to do’ list especially with only 1 Gogarth experience under my harness. Anyway on the Thursday I was relaxing down the pub the… Continue reading
The journey took several days; possibly weeks. At last, in the hidden recess high in the mountains, the pilgrim crouched and spent hours or days chipping an image into the hardest rock. Two hundred generations afterwards, I crouch in the same position with my camera. Across the unfathomable gulf of… Continue reading
Gerti Sillaber plied us with schnapps at her Pension. “Welcome to Tirol” she said. We have two days of sunny weather to come, but that looks like being our entire summer !! ” In the event, Loch, Dolly and I did rather better than that:- we had to shuffle the… Continue reading
With 3 weeks in Grindelwald, we had high hopes for this year’s trip to the Alps. The Eiger (via the Mittellegi ridge) was high on the list, as was the Mönch traverse, the Jungfrau via the Inner Rottal ridge, and the Finsteraarhorn. However, the weather had other ideas… I once… Continue reading
Here are just 5 pictures from a trip made by Paul Walkington, Michael and myself across An Teallach on a glorious day at the end of May. The “standard route” – clockwise from Dundonnell is not a huge distance round (about 15km) but it is a 1300 metre day. The… Continue reading
