An early May bank holiday weekend in Swanage was bound to be dictated to an extent by the weather. In anticipation, the MMC crew formed split strategies successful to varying degrees to make the most of three days on the south coast. Day 1 Juan and Rebecca head to the […]
Trip reports
New Year Lakes Meet Report
Robin and Caroline arrived early doors on 30th, taking in some cafefaff, gear-shopping/faff and a walk up Wansfell near Ambleside. They had lovely weather! Sunny blue skies followed by a nice time gathering with everyone else once they arrived at the Sun pub that evening. New Year’s Eve Robin set […]
Ecrins 2014 Meet Report
by John Davies On the summer solstice Rob Johnston, Bea Villata, Tomasz & Seb Zareba, Pete Murphy, Alex Spurling and I converged at Ailefroide campsite (1500m). About 100 miles south of Geneva, it is set in a beautiful alpine valley with streams, pine trees, wild flowers, and birdsong, surrounded […]
North Wales Meet January 2014
The MMC headed to Capel Curig in January and stayed in the Glan Dwr Mountain Lodge which is next door to the Pinnacle Stores and Café, and despite the adverse weather conditions at the time enjoyed a rain free weekend. On Saturday there were three groups, Andy F, Rob and […]
Lakes Meet Report
Snow, icicles and frozen waterfalls greeted those that made it to Striding Edge Hostel in the Ullswater Valley for the January meet. Particularly challenging conditions beset the first car to leave London when Andrew F spent 1.5 hours crawling through Slough to pick up Chuck. Drivers toughed out the rough […]
Font Meet Report
The car was scarcely out of Wimbledon when Mike piped up “I don’t have my passport”, Alex then chimed in “actually I don’t have my passport either”. Simon and Bea looked at one another and shrugged their shoulders, not falling for that one. Without slowing they pressed on towards Folkestone […]