The fantastic weather on the first Sunday of September was perfect for the planned short, social walk in Nidderdale. The car park in Lofthouse worked well for a 10am start with sufficient spaces available for our four cars. At just under ten miles the route was fairly easy going on… Continue reading
Wild Boar Fell is the fifth highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales. A few places above Penyghent at 708 metres but much more off the beaten track and pretty quiet. Worth a few words, perhaps, since we’ve had rather a dearth of mountain reports in our mountaineering club after a… Continue reading
Brian Y and Dave M had discovered a couple of corresponding days free from duties and concocted a plan to climb near their native area at Peel Crag in Northumberland. The weather, however, was not exactly on the same wavelength so the climbing area was changed to Langdale where the… Continue reading
The summer trip to Hathersage took place over the weekend of the 14th to the 16th of July. The summer trip was hotly anticipated by the 17 club members attending and the Old Stables Bunkhouse at Thorpe Farm came equipped with top facilities including a barbecue and an ice cream… Continue reading
No there were no pasties. And no sausage rolls. Various York MC Members have visited Gregs, though, and some have slept there. Gregs Hut is an open bothy, possibly the highest building to sleep in, in England (??). It is at 730 metres (higher than most English mountain summits) on… Continue reading
Friday 26th-29th May 2023 This Bank holiday saw Angela, Steve Green and myself meet up at Geldie Lodge in the Cairngorms. These two very remote hills are in some of the wildest parts of the Highlands ,An Sgarsoch 1006m & Carn an Fhidhleir 994m The following day saw Steve and… Continue reading
The Club trip to Wasdale took place over the weekend of Friday the 23rd to Sunday the 25th of May. As a bonus of membership in another club Oli B very kindly exercised his reciprocal rights to use the Brackenclose Hut, which belongs to the FRCC, at the north end… Continue reading
Roughly one hundred square miles of moor and mountain, in great part without any tracks or man-made features, sprawl to the south of the road to Ullapool. Here are 10 “Munro” mountain summits, arranged in groups of one, two, three, and four. Angela’s wish to climb the “three” and the… Continue reading
Glen Shiel (holding the road from Inverness to Skye) has perhaps the best collection of narrow ridge walks of any single glen, taken as a whole. I have known the Five Sisters in technical and serious form under hard neve. The Forcan Ridge is amongst the great classic scrambles, (II… 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
