York Alpine Club Blog

Despite plans to get away early, work intervened and Will and I found ourselves heading north with heavy clouds to scugdale for a quick session. Startting at Scots we messed about trying to remember what we had and hadn't done before and what holds were in an out for various flavours of Pingers. It was pretty warm at this time and quite empty only a couple of other people there. […] Read the rest

After a week of being thwarted and teased by spiteful weather gods, Friday was a beaut. I arrived home to find an email from Rob suggesting an after work session so jumped in my car and we headed over to Almscliffe.  I managed to avoid the issue of Black Wall by offering Rob first lead so he set off on another of his VS "to do"s, South Wall Traverse. This […] Read the rest

well i would have done if i could make the move.
Peri and I headed for a quick session at Almscliff, she had her eyes on black Wall and i've taken a fancy to few VSs nearby that i havent done. Peri offered me the first lead and in a reversal of roles, stood at the bottom offering no constructive advice but quite lot of laughing, heckling and abuse.
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The current generation of YAC aren't getting any younger, more's the pity, and it's time we started looking for the next Adam Ondras, so to kick this off YAC held its first child friendly climbing day at Brimham Rocks.

The great British weather was true to form and it was a rather colder, windy day (with rain threatening) that greeted us upon arrival, but undeterred we all met up […] Read the rest

'even we can't lose the Pennine Way' says Peri…..

 

WRONG

Tuesday's intended crag was Eastby, but the BMC had requested no climbing on the main buttress due to nesting Kestrels. Hence, Simon had suggested Raven's Scar on the NYM instead.

There are several nesting Fulmars at Raven's Scar (even mentioned in the guidebook), but presumably the BMC do not regard vomiting shite hawks with the same reverence as majestic falcons and so there were no bird restrictions here.

Dave Smith on Waltzing Matlilda at Foredale

A summary of moderate sports climbing venues in Yorkshire.

As a club we've not had a good success rate in terms of the weather for our recent trips to Northumberland, and perhaps because of this it was a sadly depleted group of 2 who made it to Bellingham last weekend. Either that, or everyone wanted to stay at home and watch the foopball.
For once, the weekend was forecast to be warm and sunny, but form seemed to […] Read the rest

As Tuesday had been excessively damp, Gordon, Dave D, Luke and myself paid a visit on Wednesday evening to Rob’s randomly chosen crag of the week, Whitestonecliffe. With the consistency of mature Wensleydale, many of the routes here are best left to the cheese connoisseur.  However, you shouldn’t dismiss the whole crag for this reason, as there are some superb lines on (relatively) solid rock.

OK, if you're too young to remember Marillion, then you probably think that Caley is just a bouldering playground.  However, there are also enough proper (sorry, ‘trad’) routes to provide good entertainment for an evening.
The weather wasn’t quite warm enough to melt chalk on Tuesday evening, but unusually of late, thermals were not required.
Peri had lured us there, as she had wanted to do battle with ‘The Scoop’ […] Read the rest