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Burns
Night
BLACK SAIL YOUTH HOSTEL, LAKE DISTRICT
25 - 27 Jan 2008
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Black
Sail is probably the most remote and legendary Youth
Hostel in England and Wales and we are really lucky
to have got exclusive use for a weekend again. This
will be a weekend to celebrate and to remember for years
to come – just talk to anyone who came on last
year’s event! Be warned: Black Sail is basic (limited
electricity supply, “background heating”)
and it’s at least a 3 mile walk-in over a pass
with all supplies.
We’ll celebrate Burns Night on the Saturday evening
with the traditional haggis, tatties and neeps. 16 places
at £35 each, inclusive of the Scottish feast.
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February Winter Week
Winter walking
Winter mountaineering
Ice climbing?
CRIANLARICH, SCOTLAND
9 – 16 Feb (tbc) - Feb 2008
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Our annual
week’s holiday north of the Border will be heading
to the southern part of the Scottish Munroes this year,
somewhere the club hasn’t visited for a number
of years. Our weather watcher has noticed that there
has been just as much snow falling here as in Glen Coe
over recent years! Excellent train links right to Crianlarich
itself, numerous hills to climb, such as another Ben
More, and why not try Y-Gully on Cruach Ardrain?
Previous hillwalking experience
is essential, as is knowledge of how to use an ice-axe
and crampons, though we should be able to arrange
training if you’re new to the white stuff. Contact
Simon for more details – there are will be around
8 places at approx £90 per head, but we may
be able to book more if folk book on soon!
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CIC
Hut
Ice climbing
Winter mountaineering
BEN NEVIS, SCOTLAND
29 Feb – 3 Mar 2008
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The
CIC is legendary: a superb location, with the North
Face of Ben Nevis on your doorstep. We’ve booked
the hut for 3 nights (Friday to Monday) and have managed
to get just 6 places. Previous winter mountaineering
experience is essential as this is not a place for
beginners. Good company in amazing surroundings is
guaranteed.
As we expect demand to be high and all the places
to go quickly.
Accommodation cost will be £27, food will
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SPRING
WALKING WEEKEND
Walking
Scrambling
Climbing?
Youth Hostel
LAKE DISTRICT – Ambleside/Grasmere
7 - 9 Mar 2008 ?
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Would you like to get away to
the Lake District for an early spring walking weekend?
Planning the year’s programme, I was aware
of a lack of the more accessible events between New
Year and the AGM and wondered if a group would like
to meet up for an informal event, staying in Ambleside
Youth Hostel or one of the Grasmere hostels?
Spring will be in the air and the fells should be
quieter. This will be a parent-friendly event. Contact
me if interested. |
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Lagangarbh
Hut
Ice climbing
Winter mountaineering
Winter walking
GLENCOE, SCOTLAND
2 8 - 31 Mar 2008 - long weekend
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A
10 minute walk from the road, the Lagangarbh is a
comfortable hut, with a well-equipped kitchen, gas
heating and a shower. Less intimidating than the Ben
or Torridon, the immediate vicinity offers plenty
of scope at all grades of climbing and winter hillwalking
(presuming the weather is favourable of course!).
Another minor point that may find favour with the
non-pioneering types are the much-reduced walk-ins
… Always a much-enjoyed weekend with good company,
the cost for 3 nights is £33, inclusive of two
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Rock Climbing in
Lancashire
Camp / Floor Space
18 - 20 April 2008
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The Parkinsons are once again inviting
us to join them in the first weekend’s climbing
of the season.
Come and discover the joys of climbing in and around
the quarries of Lancashire by day and join together
for a meal at theirs on the Saturday evening, possibly
a take-away. Accommodation is camping in their spacious
garden or floor space in their house.
This is a good event for beginners – contact Mike
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Annual
General Meeting
Walking
Scrambling
Climbing
BRYN BRETHYNAU,
Capel Curig,
North Wales
HUT
2 – 5 May 2008
(Bank Holiday weekend)
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Join
us over the Bank Holiday weekend for our AGM - a very
important and always sociable event in our club calendar.
We will this year be at the North London Mountaineering
Club hut, a short walk up a track from the A5 behind
the Bryn Glo car park. The surrounding area offers plenty
of options for walking, scrambling or climbing and mountain
biking. On the Saturday evening we will have our AGM
which is your opportunity to have your say in the running
of the Club.
This is also the time of year when your committee is
elected (we NEED people to volunteer to be on the committee!):
if you feel you could help the club by standing for
a committee post, please contact Andy. Thirty
places available at £20 each, including two
evening meals. Last year’s AGM was our best
ever attendance at a club event: will we beat it this
next year?
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Joint event with the
Scottish Christian Hillwalking Club
Knoydart, West Highlands, Scotland
Walking
Scrambling
Bunk House
(Bank Holiday Weekend & half term)
23 – 27 May 2008
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IThis is
a rare opportunity to visit one of the remotest mountain
areas of Britain & stay in relative luxury! We have
booked the White House near Barisdale Bay on Loch Hourn
in the Rough Bounds of Knoydart. There are 12 spaces,
6 for SCHC members and 6 for CRMC members at a cost
of £46 per person for 4 nights. The White House
is fully equipped accommodation with bunk rooms, a living
room & an equipped kitchen (take a look at www.barisdale.com/the_whitehouse.htm).
We have booked a Bank Holiday weekend by popular request,
staying from the Friday til Tuesday. Why not then spend
the rest of the week exploring another part of the West
Highlands? We will
need to carry in sleeping bags and food for 4 days
in addition to other personal kit. It is a rough up
and down 8 mile walk above the loch side from Kinlochhourn
(where cars are parked) to Barisdale (I have done
it before there & back on different occasions!),
but there is the opportunity to arrange to be taken
in by boat, which I will enquire about. The remote,
rough mountains made more accessible from this Barisdale
base include the Munros Ladhar Bheinn, Luinne Bheinn
and Meall Buidhe, the Corbetts Sgurr a Choire Bheithe
and Ben Aden and the Grahams Slat Bheinn and Meall
nan Eun. Speak to Julian to get more details &/or
book a place.
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CRMC
ALPS MEET
Alpine mountaineering
Walking
Climbing
Bernina & Bregaglia,
SE Switzerland
Camping
12 – 26 July 2008
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There
is a very enthusiastic group who have already put together
plans for next year’s Alps meet. It has been proposed
to head to south-east Switzerland on the Swiss-Italian
border, south of St Moritz. Bernina has one 4000m peak
and several others just below 4000m with routes varying
from F to PD and above.
Bregaglia is a lower area, mostly 3300m and below, with
more walking possibilities, and is well-known for quality
rock routes on granite at PD- and recommended to Alpine
novices.
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Climbing weekend
Incorporating training in North Wales if there is a
demand
6– 8 Jun 2008
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Midsummer Party
George Starkey Hut, Patterdale, Lakes
20 – 22 Jun 2008
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Climbing Holiday
Cornwall
August 2008
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August Bank Holiday
Family Meet
22– 25 Aug 2008
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OPPORTUNITIES
FOR SERVICE |
Adventure Plus
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Many of you will remember
that Jon Cox came to speak at our annual dinner in 2005
and that he runs Adventure Plus, a Christian provider
of adventure activities for schools and youth group
at a number of centres around the UK.
Would you like to use your skills and love of the outdoors
to get alongside young people from a variety of different
back grounds, and help an organisation like A+ in the
process?
Do you know friends who are not climbers who might be
happy to assist with other activities including: minibus
driving, worship band, catering support...
If you want any
more info - why not check out the A+ web site (www.adventureplus.org.uk)
, or contact them on 01993 703308 or email Jon himself
(jon@adventureplus.org.uk).
You could be a real encouragement to them....
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| Lake District for
‘Lakeland Challenge |
Are you a Christian Climber with
a SPA qualification?
Do you have a free week 25th July to 2nd August 2008?
If so, would you like to join us in the Lake District
for ‘Lakeland Challenge’?
It is a West Runton (part
of Scripture Union) Christian activity holiday for
15-18s. Please see www.lakelandchallenge.co.uk
for more details, or Contact
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