Category: Reports

Organizer: Maggie. Adventurers: Bruce, Sarah, Hannah, Maggie, Alan, Claire, Belinda, Dan S, Simon P, Mark C, Tricia, Mark F, Marion, Sarah R, Andy D, Keyna, Annie. An unforgettable trip to the West Coast of Scotland in Glen Shiel (“glen shee”), staying at Shiel Lodge.

Present: Barry, Pokey, David Parry-Jones, Claire, Alan, Maggie and Dan Seymour. Location: Corris-Crib Gough Bunkhouse Report: Barry Heading up to Snowdonia for my first planned trip naturally left me with a feeling excitement tainted with a little apprehension, crossing fingers time, wanting things to go to plan. Our weekend got off to a great start […]

Attendees: Claire, Alan & Maggie The plan was to practice our newly learnt ice axe skills, but we were met with rather green looking hills, just a dash of snow on Helvellyn and Scafell. But we were well pleased with dry, cloud free summits for a whole weekend, albeit one where we battled against the […]

Attendees: Alan, Claire, Mark F, Mark C, Dan S, Bruce, Graham, Carl, Sarah R, Maggie, Dave W, Andy Saturday Breaking with the tradition of writing trip reports after the event (often many months after the event), we’re writing this one during the event. The met office used a bunch of superlatives in the forecast – […]

January 17-19 Attendees: Alan, Claire, Mark C, Tricia, Keyna, James, Bruce, Sarah W and Hannah, Dave W, Andy D, Simon, Marion, Maggie, Sarah R, Belinda, Sarah M, Trudi. Photos: Claire, MarkC. Report: Alan, MarkC. The Walkers’ story Traditionally the second week in January is the comfy sofa trip and this year we returned to the […]

Organiser: Marion Attended by: Marion, Mark, Claire, Alan, Maggie, Sarah R, Andy D, Simon P, Dave H, Nicola, Richard S, Glenis, Keyna, David, Dan S, Jilly, Barry, Andy M, Debs, Bruce W, Steve, Belinda (dogs- Bruce and Chip) Joined later by Sarah & Hannah, Paula & Emily, Fiona & Tavie, Joanne We finally finished the […]

Organiser: Richard Attended by: Alan, Claire, Si, Sarah R, Mark F, Marion, Dave W, Simon P, Barry, Alastair, Pam, Martin (& John) It was good to have sole use of this lovely, large hostel where everyone was lucky to have a room to themselves. We had some great walks, despite lots of rain (again) and […]

Organiser: Claire Attended by: Claire, Alan, Keyna, James, Mark F, Marion, Sarah R, Andy D, David, Maggie, Belinda, Bruce W, Dave W We finally made it to the bunkhouse that we had cancelled in January (due to the snow). Our luck with the weather was not with us as we woke to torrential, horizontal rain […]

Organiser: Richard Attended by: Richard, Dave W, Dave H, Keyna, Si, Bruce W, Claire, Alan, Maggie, Sarah R, Andy D, This was a really busy, huge hostel situated on the lakeshore of Winderere and had the advantage of a good late night bar. On Saturday we awoke to low cloud (where were the mountains?) and […]

Organiser: Dan Attended by: Dan, Dave W, Bruce W, Keyna, James, Alan, Claire, Barry, Steve, Andy D, Sarah R, Andy M This has been described as a trip of a lifetime, with many, many, many litres of vino tinto drunk! Some of the highlights quoted were: the most cracking scenery, Barry and the bread, Alan’s […]