The 75th Anniversary Journal, edited by Nigel Briggs, is now complete and has been uploaded to the website. View it here: 75th Journal. Note: view the full post by clicking the title for the links to work. The journal also has 6 appendices, longer articles which have been abridged in the main publication. These can […]

40 E points!!!  – SEPTEMBER 2009 – ROGER GIBBS. Climbers always want the details. Whether it’s the exact order of the random selection of routes one has picked to try to complete in a day or the intricacies of the crux pitch of some alpine horror show. “I’m thinking of trying to tick forty E […]

Reflections of Kalymnos – December 2010 – Richard Hopkinson. Its late November it’s 4 in the afternoon, its dark the curtains are drawn, its cold it’s wet, it’s depressing! My mind drifts back to early October, it seems light years away. Kalymnos – sun kissed rock, climbing in shorts and T shirts, meals outside in […]

Wednesday Walk  Millers Dale – 12 May 2021 – Stuart Firth When I was a lad my ambition in life was to become a bread-butterer in a Subway sandwich shop. Imagine therefore how appropriate it was that I became what was known as a thick sandwich apprentice at Rolls-Royce and Associates, the design authority for HM […]

Northumberland Meet 19 – 21 May 2012 – Dave Helliwell This meet was held at the same venue as in 2010 –  the Demesne Farm Bunkhouse in Bellingham – and delightful it was. In this poor summer the forecast was changeable and this may have kept numbers down a bit. However eight Oreads and a Local […]

Snakes and Ladders – Spenser Gray and Chris Hartshorne The March meet to Tan yr Wyddfa has not been blessed with the good weather Snod claimed he had ordered, looking out of the window I huddle down further into the chair, the rain feebly beating against the window. “We could go to the Beacon and […]

 70th Anniversary Meet Report Spenser Gray The 70th Anniversary of the club had been bandied about as something which needed celebrating for some time within the committee when it occurred to me that perhaps we should experience some of the routes which would have been climbed by our predecessors on the day of the first […]

Reiff Rogue Meet – Jubilee Bank Holiday week 2012 Dave Mawer. “Roll up roll up, for the ultimate alpha male contest! For one night only, the Middleton Ox versus the Southwell Silver back…….” This will be one of the many memories I will treasure from the Reiff Rogue meet 2012. Most of you will agree […]