Holiday on Ice? – Tony Howard. March 2008 ‘Good lead Youth.’ ‘What?’ ‘Good lead Youth’ came the words from below.  I thought I’d check that I’d heard correctly.  I don’t hear that much nowadays.  It was the penultimate pitch of the last route of our holiday, and the best pitch of the week ……. so far!  Simon joined me […]

Tuesday, 5th March 2024 at 8 p.m. in The Royal Oak, Ockbrook DE72 3SE Admission: £3 (Oreads); £5 (non-members) Nigel and Janet will give an illustrated account of a four week trek, last autumn in the Langtang area of Nepal

Saturday 23 March See the newsletter for details

22-24 March This is a joint meet with the Eagle Ski Club based at the Aite CruinnichidhHostel, Roy Bridge. Please be in touch if you would like to know more andare interested in joining us. Neil Thompson

Taking advantage of our reciprocal rights with the FRCC we will return toKarn House, the superb Fell and Rock Hut in Aviemore where we have 12bed spaces booked.The weekend’s activities will be guided by the weather and hopefully we willonce again get some fantastic Scottish winter climbing and mountaineeringdone. 15-16 March

13 March We will be at Nottingham Climbing Centre, where you can do bothbouldering and lead climbing, from 7.00pm. All welcome. Emma Hayes

6 March A walk that begins at Calver, parking by the school. Ref: 248 734, S32 3AXis the postcode for the school. 9.45 a.m. for a 10.00 set off. From here wetake the Derwent Valley Way crossing New Bridge and then doubling backfor the footpath that takes us Knouchley Farm. Moving onwards to StoneyMiddleton, through […]

1-3 March Back in our regular spot but with a stand in meet leader this year we have22 beds booked at the ABMSAC George Starkey Hut in Patterdale for thenights of Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd March and as usual we should haveoptions to extend should anyone want.As this is a long established Oread meet […]

Tuesday 27 February The ‘Iceberg Trail’ on the remote east coast of Greenland, was abackpacking trek, requiring food drop offs and boat rides between thevarious sections and crampons for crossing snowfields and ascendingmountains. It was a great adventure, in a true wilderness, withbreathtaking scenery.The Laugavegur trek of Iceland stood out for its magical and diverselandscape, […]

22 February Short We will start at 11.00 am at Ashover Village Hall, On street parking or thereare usually plenty of spaces at the Village Hall, Most of the route is not onthe White Peak map, you need Explorer 269, Chesterfield and Alfreton. Myplan is cunningly to avoid all the steepest ups and downs in […]