New year’s day walk – Wetton

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1 Jan 2022 As no leader has emerged to coordinate this traditional sociable get-together youwill need to liase with your friends and plot a route to the Royal Oak at Wettonwhere other Oreads will doubtless converge from different directions for alunchtime drink or two before wandering off into the gathering gloom in the hopeof finding […]

Boxing Day Walk

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26th Dec. 2021 Sadly the Miners’ Arms Brassington is currently closed so a new venue is neededfor our traditional festive meet-up. As The Gate is so small, and at present theonly pub in the village, they are unlikely to be able to fit us all in so we proposeto meet up at the Miners’ Arms, […]

Festive Season at Tan yr Wyddfa

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24 Dec. 2021 to 3 Jan. 2022 As usual the hut is available for members and family to have a sociable timetogether and no doubt a shared meal will be arranged for New Year’s eve. Don’tforget to reserve your beds, using the online system if possible, otherwise bycontacting Michael Hayes.

Black Rocks evening meet

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15 Dec. 2021 It’s the Wednesday before the Wednesday before Christmas! Time for all ruftytufty Oreads to get out with headtorches and scramble about in the dark, darknight. After sufficient exposure to the elements we will retire to the Rising Sun,Middleton by Wirksworth where we will be made welcome but this year no mealhas been […]

Beddgelert to Nantmor High Level Route

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Some of our members have been out and about walking this week and have captured some truly beautiful pictures. All the pictures in this article are credited to Peter Kennington. If you are an Oread member and want to share your adventures contact me at websupport@oread.co.uk! This route is around 6 miles and starts opposite […]

WINTER WALL WEDNESDAYS (Sheffield, Awesome Walls)

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Introducing the underwhelmingly named series of events that you didn’t know you wanted! The evenings are dark and the weekends are wet. Many of us spend our time dangling around at indoor walls so we thought it was time that we organised some sessions at them to at least allow you to socialise a bit […]

The December newsletter is out!

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Nine pages of events coming up including the season’s indoor talks both live and on Zoom plus Wednesday winter evening indoor wall meets in Nottingham and Sheffield and an outdoor climbing night for the hardy souls. Several walks and social get-togethers over Christmas and New Year. Looking forward – two winter Scottish hut weekends are […]

Cwm Eigiau Meet, 12th – 14th November 2021

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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 […]

Fun in the sun February 2022

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Sport climbing, Benidorm A few of us have booked with Jet2 for a trip to Benidorm, hopefully climbing andwalking in some much needed sunshine. We are staying at the AparthotelTerralta from 6 or 7 February for between 11 and 14 days. We have booked halfboard but you can also self cater. All welcome to join […]

Evening lecture

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Tuesday 7 December 8.00pm Royal Oak Ockbrook Bob Pettigrew, no less, will talk to the club about the second ascent of the SolangWeißhorn, so named by none other than General Bruce (first ascensionist) afterits resemblance to the well known peak in Walliss, Switzerland. Bob will also talkmore generally about his journeys to India and the […]