The second winter trip of 2025 was to the Alex MacIntyre Memorial Hut in Ballachulish. The weekend trip was fully booked with all sixteen places taken and reserves waiting in the wings. A few extra members joined the trip making their own arrangements for accommodation. The season had presented us… Continue reading
The second winter weekend trip of the season was based in Aviemore and involved a group of seventeen club members. Eight members were able to travel on Thursday to gain an extra day on the hill and the remainder arrived in Aviemore on Friday afternoon or evening. Following the recent… Continue reading
The annual York Mountaineering Club Winter Weekend for 2023 took place from Thursday the 9th to Sunday the 12th of March and was based at the Aviemore Hostel. There were 19 club members in the hostel plus Steve G with Bev in their campervan and a good friend Keith who… Continue reading
Over the weekend of the 6th to 8th of March and despite challenging and unpredictable weather throughout the winter season a team of seven club members headed north to Aviemore where, thankfully, decent winter conditions had established. Dave M and Steve M arrived a day early to climb on Friday… Continue reading
The first whiff of passable winter conditions enticed Messrs Ferguson Dixon Carrier and Diggle up to Braemar on a Friday night with high hopes of doing a nice easy Grade II / III route on the magnificent Lochnagar, and ticking off the first route of the year. We enjoyed the… Continue reading
Would you book a winter mountaineering course twelve days before Christmas ? Nah ! Shortest days, weather probably naff, often no snow anyway. And so it was, that on one of the finest winter days in recent years, and after a cool minus 6 or so at the… Continue reading
Here’s our doings for the year of 2009 Tarn Crag Gulley Tarn Crag Gulley 09 A winter climbing day in the Lake District Club Winter Weekend 2009 Club Winter weekend 2009 A couple of dozen climbing in Coire an t’Sneachda and winter training on Cairngorm Rjukan Norway February… Continue reading
