2020/21: Ben Lairig with COVID-19 Hello! Freshers, welcome to York! If you join us we’ll make sure you see as little of our lovely city as possible. As you know already, Covid-19 is going to have a big impact on how the club operates. Our weekly pub crawls are now illegal, but we’re extremely lucky […]
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Winter Week 8 2020: LAKE DISTRICT
Winter Week 8: Lake District 28th February – 1st March Present: Tom, Jacob & Lucy Everyone had dropped out. The trip was supposed to go to Glencoe but record snowfall from the storm-front battering the UK had made for an extreme avalanche risk and the winds were set to continue over the weekend. But there […]
Winter Week 6 2020: CRIANLARICH
A valentines special Week 6: Crianlarich. 14-16th February. People: Ellie, Lucy, Charlotte, Tom, Katie, Cheng, Paulina, Kieran, Rebecca. With Storm Dennis fast approaching we were apprehensive about this weekend. Very correctly, as we were soon to discover. We arrived at Crianlarich village hall which was hella cold, so we all snuggled into one of the […]
Winter Week 5 2020: FIRST AID
We put our sensible hats on. FIRST AID COURSE 2020. FIRST AID COURSE 8/9TH FEBRUARY 2020. This is a short interim from the flurry of exciting mountain chatter for a bit of sensible chatter. We did a first aid course! First aid is the sort of thing you don’t really think about until you really […]
Winter Week 4 2020: GLENCOE
A Damp Weekend Week 4- Glencoe. 31st Jan- 2nd Feb People: Mark, Darci, Tom, Jacob, Dan, Holly, Ben, Ellie, Helen, Paulina After the flurry of winter skills our feet were itching to get back out in the hills, so the week 4 jaunt to Glencoe was met with much anticipation. Unfortunately, the weather dashed both […]
Winter Week 2 2020: WINTER SKILLS
WINTER SKILLS 2020 Basic 1: Charlie, Helen, Amy, Natalie, Blanche, Oscar, Holly, Rebecca N.Basic 2: Tomás, Sari, Alek, Sebastian, Rebecca L, Seweryn, Julia, Paulina, CaterinaAdvanced 3: Tom, Bella, Luc, EllieAdvanced 4: Jacob, Dan, Carlo, Mallory.Advanced 5: Justin, Daniel, Kieran.Non course: Lucy, Hugo, Alex, Aaron, Ben, Darci, Mark, Iain. After the traditional van trouble of broken boot locks […]
Autumn Week 8 2019: NORTH LAKES
Attendees: Unknown Location: Unknown Date: Unknown Mountains climbed: Unknown We don’t know what happened to this report, but we hope this information might help piece together what happened these days for benefit of all humanity. (let is be known this was Tom’s doing not Ellie’s.)
Autumn Week 6 2019: SNOWDONIA
‘We got to the tippity top of the tip topity tip’. 9-10th October. Day 1: Tryfan North Face Day 2: Snowdon via Crib Goch/ Pyg Track. People: Ellie, Tom, Carlo, Darci, Rebecca, Katie, Ethan, Mia, Helen, Julia, Sev, Oscar, Mal, Amy, Jacob, Kieran, Mark Holy smokes what a weekend. We set off from the vans […]
Autumn Week 4 2019: LANGDALES
WE CAME, WE SAW, WE CRINKLED. 26/27th October WEEK 4 TRIP TO THE LANGDALES People: Lucy, Ellie, Bella, Luc, Mark, Tom, Carlo, Ben, Holly, Helen, Natalie (Joe and Chaib) Joy found me late on Friday evening when Lucy decided we should leave 2hrs later in the morning. Whilst it is true BL will never be […]
Autumn Week 2 2019: FRESHERS! THE REVIVAL OF THE TRIP REPORTS IS HERE
THE REVIVAL OF THE TRIP REPORTS IS HERE. October 12/13th 2019 As one of the only non-Bsc members of the club and therefore the one with the most free time, I decided to heave the great responsibility of documenting our weekends on to my weary shoulders. In reality it was the perfect excuse to dust […]