Author: Janet Briggs
Swanage – by Royal Appointment June 2015 One was wondering what to do for the Bank Holiday weekend. One had spent all week fondling with one’s Velocettes, ensuring they were in imperfect working order and guaranteed to breakdown before reaching Windsor. One was also keen to get away from one’s palace before the arrival of one’s latest […]
Alpine Meet: Val Ferret – August 2012, Pete Lancaster It was twelve years since the club last visited Val Ferret for its summer alpine meet so a return trip to this beautiful valley was due. I was determined not to hassle Sally about booking and might have succeeded had the online booking form performed…however, after only […]
Walk & Climb the Edges Meet – 22 September Gil Male. Let’s start at the beginning. Simon Pape, Chris Wilson, Roger and Tom Larkam, Mike, Helen and Tom Hayes and Gil Male (meet leader) were surprisingly on the starting blocks at High Neb at 8.45. Correct me if I’m wrong but this must be a […]
Tan yr Wyddfa Working Party, July 2016 by Snod Helliwell Even before the working party officially started Nodge was in there, slashing, strimming and burning so the garden was pristine by the time most of us arrived on the Tuesday evening. He’d spared our lovely spotted orchid, flowering for the second year at the top […]
70th Anniversary Meet Report Spenser Gray The 70th Anniversary of the club had been bandied about as something which needed celebrating for some time within the committee when it occurred to me that perhaps we should experience some of the routes which would have been climbed by our predecessors on the day of the first […]
Reiff Rogue Meet – Jubilee Bank Holiday week 2012 Dave Mawer. “Roll up roll up, for the ultimate alpha male contest! For one night only, the Middleton Ox versus the Southwell Silver back…….” This will be one of the many memories I will treasure from the Reiff Rogue meet 2012. Most of you will agree […]
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After a 40 minute walk through wet and windy conditions, in the gathering gloom of nightfall our select group of Janet and Nigel Briggs, Michael Moss, Rachel Walker, Pippa Leach and her niece Claire, reached the sanctuary of Cwm Eigiau Cottage. We soon had solar powered lights on, the fire lit and food underway. Saturday […]