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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 […]

2012 – My Climbing Year Simon Pape. March 2013          All the books suggest that setting objectives is a good thing to do to guide one’s climbing (or any other) activity. I’d done it once or twice before, and it does seem to help. It’s also recommended that if you tell others about your objectives you […]

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 […]

Moonlight Symphony – An Ascent of Centre Post Direct, Steve Christian.  Feb 2011 So there we were Phil, Stu and I, three and half pitches off the summit of Creag Meagaidh, 300 metres up Centre Post Direct, at 4pm on the 6th of January. Darkness is falling as I set off on a grade V icefall, […]

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 […]

Sat. 21st. Oct. 2023 Meet at Lyme Park NT car park at 10:15 for a 10:30 departure. BringPicnic.OS Map OL1 GR 963 823 (aka W3W topic.homelands.reboot)This is a circular walk partly on the Gritstone Trail and linking with ourprevious stage. It’s the last one in the series. It goes something like this:Lyme Park car park […]

14th to 29th Oct. 2023 A few members from the Oread are heading to Siurana in Spain 14-29thOctober for some sport climbing. Small apartments can be found inCornudella. There is also a campsite just outside Siurana village. Me andLuke are staying in apartment Chenin Blanc-Priorat. If you want to join in,find yourself a climbing partner […]

6th to 7th Oct. 2023 The Fylde club’s delightful hut is well situated for a variety of crags – inLangdale itself are Gimmer, Raven, White Ghyll and Pavey Ark and there’smagnificent quarries close at hand too. Plus great mountain walking in alldirections.This is a hut swap so we only pay our own members’ rates £5.00 […]

4th Oct. 2023 Meet at Curbar Gap car park (SK262747) with an aim to depart at 10:15.This walk takes in Curbar and Froggatt edges, Grindleford, Padley Gorge,Longshaw Estate and White edge.The route is approximately 11 miles long with around 1,200 ft of ascentPlease let me know if you are attending. Charlie Taylor