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 […]
Trip reports
Dolomites Meet Report
The much depleted “Silvia Bello” club of Margaret Sarah Ian and Lisa returned to camping de la Rochetta in early September 2012. A pleasant return to the home comforts of the Bog blox DJ, 5* deli/bar on site, pizza over the road and enough toilets showers for 3 mountaineering clubs. […]
New Year Lakes Meet Report
After a pre-meet scare over, let’s say, a “missing” hut key Andrew, Sarah G, Jules, Jason and Sarah W spent the day leisurely driving up to Low Hall Garth from London. Robin had arrived a day earlier and had just collected Caroline from the train station. All in all, day […]
Swanage Songs
The weather was ominous on Friday and intimidated a few softies who decided to postpone their departure to Saturday morning to avoid pitching their tents under the rain. A few well-seasoned mountaineers braved the conditions and set off under the torrential rain. Andy Furnell spent a lonely evening in his […]
Scotland the brave
Warm Up Day Grrr 2 minutes out of Slough and we are already stuck in traffic! Give me a detour on that Sat Nav! And so the journey to Fort William began for Ag, Chuck and Jason. An hour and a half of traffic jams may not be the best […]
Heaven in Devon
For the lovely warm and sunny bank holiday weekend we all headed to at Buckfastleigh in Devon where we stayed at the Beara Farm Campsite, a pretty place on the banks of the River Dart for a fine weekend of fun and climbing. On Saturday most of the group headed […]