The Club trip to Wasdale took place over the weekend of Friday the 23rd to Sunday the 25th of May. As a bonus of membership in another club Oli B very kindly exercised his reciprocal rights to use the Brackenclose Hut, which belongs to the FRCC, at the north end… Continue reading
Roughly one hundred square miles of moor and mountain, in great part without any tracks or man-made features, sprawl to the south of the road to Ullapool. Here are 10 “Munro” mountain summits, arranged in groups of one, two, three, and four. Angela’s wish to climb the “three” and the… Continue reading
Glen Shiel (holding the road from Inverness to Skye) has perhaps the best collection of narrow ridge walks of any single glen, taken as a whole. I have known the Five Sisters in technical and serious form under hard neve. The Forcan Ridge is amongst the great classic scrambles, (II… Continue reading
The annual York Mountaineering Club Winter Weekend for 2023 took place from Thursday the 9th to Sunday the 12th of March and was based at the Aviemore Hostel. There were 19 club members in the hostel plus Steve G with Bev in their campervan and a good friend Keith who… Continue reading
The first weekend trip for 2023 was based at the Agnes Spencer Memorial Hut in Patterdale which belongs to Cleveland Mountaineering Club. 11 members of York Mountaineering Club arrived on Friday the 3rd Feb, ten sleeping in the hut and Rosemary B testing her campervan in the nearby campsite. The… Continue reading
So on a website about a MOUNTAINEERING club, why even mention a point merely 487 metres ? Well, there come days to the hills, when cloud and wind pushes onto western slopes, making it difficult to stand up at 700m, the summits shrouded in mist and rain. Against such a… Continue reading
The Langdale trip at the end of the autumn season for 2022 was organised by Nathan and 9 club members made it to the Loft, Lancashire Mountaineering Club’s hut near Blea Tarn at the west end of Great Langdale. The weather forecast for the weekend had been unsettled, even autumnal,… Continue reading
An Englishman, Dutchman, Spaniard and a South Korean met at York Station… As the York Tap was still closed at 8am, we decided to meet at Platform 7 and travel to Horton-in-Ribblesbay in the Dales, ascent Pen-y-ghent and Plover Hill, and make our way back to Horton and York via… Continue reading
The end of summer club trip was booked at fairly short notice and an enthusiastic response from so many club members ensured that all twenty available beds were very quickly accounted for. The bunkhouse had been used before and was at Gillside Farm Campsite, Glenridding to the east side of… Continue reading
In locations from Crete to Cape Wrath, and Slovenia to Corsica, my friend Steve W and I have managed a September walk these many years. Having previously met GR5 on its way north from Nice, we took a cue from the Chamonix to Geneva section. The intermediate valley of Samoens/Morillon… Continue reading
