Legs apart, my back is braced against the wind. I can’t see my feet:- a knee-deep river of spindrift hurtles past at motorway speed. They should get this at Alton Towers. Exhilarating !! Until we eventually turn west, that is:- transverse to the wind, the battle intensifies. Drifts up… Continue reading
After plenty of fresh snowfall during the previous week, and with a good weather forecast for the SE Highlands, Maria and I decided to get the skis out and head out over a few Munros. There had also been strong Westerly winds, making Easterly aspects pretty avalanche prone, so we… Continue reading
After some stormy weather over the previous few days, the weekend of 3rd/4th Jan promised 70% chance of cloud-free Munros in the SE Highlands, so Lochnagar was calling us for the first proper route of this winter. Matt, Maria and I decided on Central Buttress, a 300m grade II route… Continue reading
Some 12,000 years later, the weather was looking a bit cloudy. So Frank, Dave, Linda and I found our way all along Glen Roy, — an internationally famous geological feature — taking in the amazing horizontal lines which run for miles along the hillsides [being the ancient beaches of the… Continue reading
(Posted on behalf of Eddie Martin) After several years as a member of the York CHA & HF Rambling Club, I joined the York Mountaineering Club in 1949 after my army service which lasted from October 1946 to February 1949. My early memories of outings with the club are of… Continue reading
On Sunday morning, 9th November, there were nine of us (plus 2 canines) who set off from Honister to join a busy footpath to the top of Great Gable. Dave, Donna and Ellie, Linda, Cath, Dolly, Steve, Matthew and me. We did not ask anyone’s permission to walk. We chose… Continue reading
Whilst on my last trip with Ben to Arran we discovered we had a mutual small number of annual leave allowance to use and mooted a autumn weekend somewhere. A few months later neither of has a better offer and booked off a Monday and Tuesday late September with a… Continue reading
“Slack low pressure” Things suddenly looked up after a dreary forecast for 11-12 October. From Drumochter summit, Dolly, Steve, Keith and I were soon enough on the top of Sgairneach Mor, first Lunch; and an hour later Second Lunch on Beinn Udlamain to… Continue reading
(By Tom Evans) For me it was a route on the ‘to have done’ list, yet to convince myself I was prepared to put it on the ‘to do’ list especially with only 1 Gogarth experience under my harness. Anyway on the Thursday I was relaxing down the pub the… Continue reading
The journey took several days; possibly weeks. At last, in the hidden recess high in the mountains, the pilgrim crouched and spent hours or days chipping an image into the hardest rock. Two hundred generations afterwards, I crouch in the same position with my camera. Across the unfathomable gulf of… Continue reading
