Having done loads of mountaineering as a kid in the Alps with my family I have sadly had very little opportunity to do any kind of winter walking in recent years. I didn’t go on the trip with many aims other than that I wanted snow! As it happened we had that in abundance – […]
Trips
North Wales Trip Report – February 2020
The theme so far with our trips this year appears to be storms..! Having said that the weather was apocalyptic on the Lake District trip I have run out of superlatives to describe the weather for this weekend! Storm Ciara certainly made our stay in the Clwt-y-Bel hut atmospheric to say the least. The best […]
Lake District trip report 10th-12th Jan
The weather forecast for this trip made unpleasant reading to say the least and only the keenest and hardiest of souls were dedicated enough to make the drive to the George Starkey Hut in Patterdale where we were staying! Those who were able to get to the Lakes on Friday morning enjoyed the best of […]
The Roaches trip report – October 2019
Eleven keen and hardy souls packed themselves into the Whillans Hut at the Roaches for the mid-October Peak District trip, more in hope than expectation of good weather. The Whillans hut is an absolutely unique place to stay and wonderfully close to the rock (read cave…) – and it didn’t fail to live up to […]
The Butterflies of Gower
Words by Simon, photos by Louise I’d had a pretty negative life experience of Gower; one abortive climbing trip, without guidebook, in such a distant past that the person I went with can’t remember it ever happened. That plus a family camping weekend in the rain in a packed, noisy campsite – sleeping in a […]
Skye trip report – May 2019
Christine and Dave It was with more than a little trepidation that we set off for Skye for a 2-week trip in mid-May. Despite May being the driest month of the year on average in North West Scotland (before the summer ‘monsoon’ kicks in and the midges really get going!), on both of the two […]
Starting the season in Portland
After a wild week when Storm Gareth whipped up some high winds and miserable greyness, it was an intrepid group of members who made the trip down to Portland in late March. No fear, it’s always sunny in Portland… After a night in the Bunkhouse With No Windows we sought the place most likely to […]
Scottish Tradfest
After an extremely successful haul of gullies and ice last year, Pete, Cameron, Niall and I hoped to build on our success. In the days before the Scotland trip this year however, it became apparent that all of or our new ice gear would be of little use. Instead we reached for our trad racks and […]
Scotland 2019 – Tower Ridge
Scotland in February: We were hoping for a winter ascent of the classic Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis, but it was far from winter. If you were quick enough you could have done it in t-shirt and shorts, we weren’t and glad we didn’t, as we topped out at 18:30. Four of us decided to […]