First evening meet climbing at Brassington

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Wednesday 29th March 2023 The clocks have changed, summer is on the way and we’ll meet up for a lateafternoon to early evening bouldering, scrambling or rambling at Harborough before retreating asdarkness falls to the Miners’ Arms, Brassington.

Oread AGM 2023

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Sat. 25th March, 2023 at 7:30pm The Annual General Meeting of the Club will take place at 7:30 pm on Saturday25th March 2023. The meeting will be held at The Duke William, Church St.Matlock. https://www.thedukewilliammatlock.com/ tel. 01629 583111. Thepub has a large car park and serves food from 12 noon to 8.00 pm We have […]

Thursday shport walk – Bonsall

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Thur. 23rd March 2023 This will be a second attempt on the Bonsall walk which, in November, wasinundated with such heavy rain that a swift retreat was made to the cafe! We willstart at 11.00am from the Fountain Cafe, Bonsall. (Open from 8.30 am for earlyarrivals!) Roadside parking by the cafe or in the park […]

Scottish west coast stacks, pinacles and classics

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Sat. 27th May – Sun. 4th June 2023 I’m aiming at classic climbs, there are climbs of all grades, great walking and canoeing too. The plan is set by the tides for the Old Man of Stoer (North of Lochinver) which are better in the second week.  So we will start on Skye at the Glen […]

Oread AGM

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Saturday 25 March 7:30 pm The Annual General Meeting of the Club will take place at 7:30 pm on Saturday25th March 2023. The meeting will be held at The Duke William, Matlock. Thiswill be the first ‘in person’ AGM since March 2019.In the meeting we will approve the minutes of the 2022 AGM, consider theaccounts […]

Zoom talk – Gill Radcliffe and Peter Amour

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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 […]

Little Langdale – Fylde hut

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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 […]

Winter lecture – Paul Gardiner

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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.

Wednesday walk – circuit from Thorpe

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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 […]

Lecture – Mick Fowler

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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 […]