Please note that bookings are now open for this meet. A fantastic venue for climbing, but also with good walking locally More details are available if you click on the dates on the calendar of events. Please make sure you book before the end of August, so that we can be sure of numbers before we have to pay the BMC.
Saturday 12th January – Great Whernside Walk via Providence Pot
What a sociable walk led by Paul Shoesmith. A total of twelve of us (friends old and new) enjoyed a brisk walk up Great Whernside from Kettlewell via Providence Pot.
A good day out with occasional views and top quality gossip. We were able to feel it was a serious walk during the hour or so along the summit ridge with 40mph drizzle. A group huddle at a shelter in a pile of stones for lunch felt really cold and windy until we went out of the shelter and found what cold and windy actually feels like.
After crossing the road above Park Rash we contoured round to Top Mere then a quick 2 mile descent to the café in Kettlewell.
BUCKEN PIKE – Sunday 18 Nov
Hi All. A couple of us are off to Buckden for a walk up Buckden Gill to Buckden Pike on Sunday 18 Nov. We aim to leave Buckden at 10.30am and to be finished before dark.
Join us if you would like to. Let me know if you are coming so that we can look out for you. Ring me, if sharing transport would suit you. (0797 485 3146).
Best wishes to all.
Dick
Lakes – Sat 17 Feb – A day (or 2) on Snow and Ice?
Paul and I are intending to go to the Lakes on Sat with a view to a day of Winter Climbing. We are aiming to get there by 9am. We are wondering about somewhere like Bowfell Links to avoid the big cornices on unstable east faces but may change if it seems that things are becoming more stable. Anyone interested? Contact me or post here. If conditions are good we may stay on to the Sunday.
Dick
Smithy Hut Meet; January 26th-28th 2018 Meet Report
A sociable and enjoyable hut meet.
Some had arrived in time for a walk on the Friday and by mid evening eleven of us had assembled in the hut.
Saturday had its share of rain and was especially wet on the ground. We all set out (at different times) to Keswick by bus having avoided the mass demonstration against the proposed Zip Wire. A select few walked from Keswick via Ashness bridge and Watendlath to come back to the hut over High Tove (only as boggy as expected) by soon after 3pm. The other walk left Keswick after retail possibilities and pies were exhausted. We walked back to the hut via Friars Crag, Castlerigg Stone Circle and some of the finest mud experienced for some time. This was exhaustingly slow and provided the time window for the people on the other walk to slave away and peel and chop many kilograms of carrots, swede and potatoes. A valiant effort.
The Burns Super went to plan. The Selkirk Grace; Cock a Leakie Soup; Piping in the Haggis to be addressed by Pete; Plates as full of tatties, neaps and haggis as could be consumed; a monumental Marmalade and Whiskey bread and butter pudding by Barbara; toasts to the haggis, chef, pipers, The Immortal Memory of Burns, the Lassies and as many other toasts as could be fitted between the poetry.
Sunday was not an encouraging day but the option of more plates of haggis and then pudding persuaded most to go for a lakeside walk out with a hillside return.
Those members not able to attend should try hard to attend next year. The Whiskey and marmalade pudding made the bogs, mud and poetry all worthwhile. It is better not to let ones thoughts dwell on the fact that Dick liked wearing a rug pretending to be a kilt. Not a pretty sight.
Please add any suitable photos you may have. That probably rules out the rug/kilt in case children look at the website.
