8 Jan 2025 Start time :- 10-00am for a 10-00am departure. Distance :- 11 miles.From where :- Road-side, Butts Lane, Little Longstone, near Monsal Head.Grid Reference SK 186 716. Or nearby car park with toilets at Monsal Head (pay& display).Advise car sharing to reduce the environmental and car spaces demand.What better as an antidote for […]

Tuesday 7 January 8.00pm Royal Oak Ockbrook Carrie Beadle, mountaineer and skier and daughter of Robin will speak aboutclimbing, ski mountaineering and maybe a little plasma physics.

1/1/2025 Wow! The second quarter of this century starts on Sunday, 1st January. I hope tosee members from across all the Oread spectrum whether young, mature,climbers, walkers, runners, cyclists, or by car come together to celebrate the startof another new year.The day will be more about socialising than breaking any records. With that inmind I […]

The hut is reserved for members and their guests over the festive period. Bookyourselves in, come and go as you please. I will not be there at Christmas but willarrive a day or two later in time for a New Year celebration featuring a joint meal -including Joan’s wonderful soup! probably a fiendish jigsaw, silly […]

As usual make your way to the Miners’ Arms on foot, bicycle or any other meansthat takes your fancy, for a sociable meet up. The pub opens at 12.00 noon.Probably as well to book if you want a meal. 01629 541977.

Sunday 15 Dec. 2024 (Please note change of date!)This being a one way walk I shall present myself with a vehicle at the car parkadjacent to Wetton Mill Tea Room at 10.00 am, in the hope that others will leavea vehicle there and travel back to Milldale with me (the walk will then commenceat 10 […]

12 Dec. 2024 We will meet in Kniveton at the junction of Ostrich Lane (leaves the main road bythe school) and Longrose Lane where there is some parking. Otherwise park onthe main road and walk the short distance to the meeting point. SK209 508. Wewill start at 11.00 am and follow the lane to pick […]

The 75th Anniversary Journal, edited by Nigel Briggs, is now complete and has been uploaded to the website. View it here: 75th Journal. Note: view the full post by clicking the title for the links to work. The journal also has 6 appendices, longer articles which have been abridged in the main publication. These can […]

Sat. 23rd Nov. 2024 Arrive 6.45pm for 7:15pm at The Maynard, Main Road, Grindleford S32 2HEWe look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at this celebration of theOREAD and reaching its 75th milestone. Overnight accommodation: Tony Raphael has booked a twin room at the Maynardand would be happy to share it with […]

Wed. 11th Dec 2024 This annual madness involves climbing at Black Rocks in the dark early evening– or Harborough for the not quite so mad – and Wirksworth wall for the boringlysane – followed by a get together in a local pub – more details next month.