Tuesday 21 March 8.00 pm Gill Radcliffe and Peter Amour will entertain us for the last of this winterseason’s Zoom talks. Gill will be talking about her five weeks in the Chamonixvalley and climbs with the Alpine Club and Oread members. “I didn’t climb to ahigh standard, unlike the illustrious Oread members of old but […]

10th and 11th March 2023 The Fylde club’s delightful hut is well situated for a variety of crags – in Langdaleitself are Gimmer, Raven, White Ghyll and Pavey Ark and there’s magnificentquarries close at hand too. Plus great mountain walking in all directions.This is a hut swap so we only pay our own members’ rates […]

Tuesday 7 March 2023, 8 pm, Royal Oak OckbrookThe last lecture of the season will feature Paul Gardiner, Oread and one of onlytwo surviving original members. This will be a bit of a look back! Assisted byPeter Amour.

Wed, 1st March 2023 The walk will take a twisting course to cross Dovedale, skirt the shoulder ofBunster Hill and then switch back to Ilam. A combination of tarmac and turf willthen guide us to Blore, followed by heading for Mappleton village followed by anelevated finish to Thorpe.If interested Pete can be contacted on his […]

Saturday 25th Feb Mick Fowler is giving a talk at the Imperial Rooms, Matlock at 6.45 pm. Theevening is a fundraising event, including a raffle, for a small charity 65 DegreesNorth https://www.65degreesnorth.co.uk/ that helps to rehabilitate injured veteransthrough adventurous challenges.Mick’s enthralling presentation, ‘No Easy Way’, covers his more recent thrillingadventures in the mountains and also […]

Thursaday, 23rd Feb. 2023 Please note this walk is a week later than usual. Meet at 10.45am for an 11.00am start in the car park at Calke Abbey, Ticknall, (National Trust members free)and walk through the lovely parkland of Calke in a circuit passing the old limeworkings and through the tunnel (Head torch) stopping at […]

Tuesday 21 February 8.00 pm The penultimate Zoom event this season will be based on a ramshackle set ofphotos from sunny climbing locations interspersed with a few via ferrate (aconfession, I used Google to check on the plural!). Many of us have heard ofmeccas such as the Costa Blanca and Kalymnos but never visited and […]

Sat. 18th February 2023 Having completed the southern half of the Gritstone Trail, we now resume theproject to commence the northern half.Meet at 10:00 am for a 10:15 departure at Trentabank Reservoi:r OS Explorer268 Wilmslow / Macclesfield / Congleton; GR 962712. Public loos, roadsideparking free.The route is as follows: Trentabank, Bottoms Reservoir (near Langley), TeggsNose, […]

Tuesday 7 February 2023, 8 pm, Royal Oak Ockbrook Paul Bingham will give us an introduction to how his birding interest developed from times in the hills and mountains, culminating in a look at trends and changes during his 20 years of Upland BreedingBird Surveys for the British Trust for Ornithology on Kinder Scout and […]

Wdnesday 1st February 2023 Walk: Cromford to Matlock   Time: Wednesday 1st February 10.00 a.m. start Walk Leader: Rachel Walker Meeting point: Cromford Market Place outside the Greyhound Free parking: Cromford Market Place or the Lime Yard to the left of the Community Centre (across the road from the Market Place) Public transport: Buses from […]