6 Dec. 2023 Meet at the layby outside Flash bar stores café on the A53 Leek-BuxtonRoad (SK032678). Parking here is limited, so please car share wherepossible. I aim to depart at 10:00. This walk takes in Axe edge, Cheeks hill,Dane bower colliery engine house, Whetstone ridge and Three Shires head.The route is approximately 10 miles […]

Tues. 7th Dec. 2023 8 p.m. Royal Oak Ockbrook Jon Shields will talk to “Hopping Mad; adventures of a paraclimber.” Jon isa GB athlete and will talk about his climbing both before and after hisaccident.

18th – 19th Nov. 2023 Good training for winter climbing or simply a sport in its own right, eitherway dry-tooling is getting more and more popular with a number of specificvenues being developed up and down the country. Whether it’s early seasontraining for those steep winter routes; improving your ‘mixed’ skills andtechniques; or just having […]

Post Prandial Walk sunday 19th Nov. 2023, 10AM for a 10:15 start. Park beside the cricket pitch in Calver village near the Derwentwater Arms.Our route will be around 10 miles and proceed up through Curbar villageonto the end of Baslow Edge. We will then head across to pick up the veryend of White Edge at […]

Thur. 16th Nov. 2023 Meet to leave at 11:00 am at SK 3391 6924 opposite the Bull’s Head Pub,Cotton Mill Hill, HOLYMOORSIDE. There is normally street parkingavailable on both sides of the road.From the Bull’s Head we go east, briefly touching Walton Back Lane, then6turning NW across fields to Chander Hill. We then join a […]

Tues 7th Nov. 7 p.m. Royal Oak Ockbrook Cath Flitcroft is currentlyCampaigns Manager of the BritishMountaineering Council. She waspreviously their Access andConservation Officer. Herresponsibilities includesustainability and climate changework and she works with the allparty parliamentary group onmountaineering. She trained as anenvironmental archaeologist and“spent many years in the Scottishwilderness” in that field. She hasalso worked with […]

1sr Nov. 2020 Please assemble at the car park adjacent to Derbyshire Bridge at say 10.00for 10 15 ( about 1 mile downhill from Cat and Fiddle, SK018715). We shallinitially traverse the heather moorland East of the river Goyt beforecrossing a pedestrian bridge (do not wear headgear looking even remotelylike a pheasant). Thereafter we shall […]

Sat. 18th Nov. 2023 The Fox and Goose has served us well over the last couple of years, so thiswill once again be the venue for the annual dinner. The Fox and Goose Inn, Pudding Pie Hill, Wigley. S42 7JJ. www.thefoxandgooseinn.com A very pleasant country pub with good food and beer on the B6050 Baslow […]

8 p.m. Tues. 3rd Oct. 2023, Royal Oak Ockbrook The first lecture of the season will feature Paul Gardiner, Oread and one ofonly two surviving original members. This talk, (which sadly had to bepostponed in March due to illness) will look back at the very start of theOread, (before it was Oread ) There will […]

Fri. 27th to Sun. 29th Oct. 2023 The weekend Curry Meet will be at Tan yr Wyddfa this year. Most of youwill be familiar with our Welsh hut and with the curry meet format, but forthe few who are not, the hut is based in Rhyd Ddu just south of Snowdon.This gives easy access to […]