York Alpine Club Blog

As Paul and I drove up the 'Cote de Blubberhouses' in the mist and rain at 8.30 on Sunday morning we looked at each other and wondered if we were in for 'one of those days'. ...

An early start to give us a full day out before the winter sunset meant we were heading east out of the car park at Chop Gate, north of Helmsley just after 9am and heading up Noon hill in the Cleveland hills. From here we could see the whole of the day's circular route stretching around the horizon.

Went out for a good walk in the Dales with Peter E, the first of what I hope will be some more regular walks now the winter weather isn't as condusive to climbing.

Starting at Settle, we headed uphill and east to the Limestone amphitheatre of Attermire scar, then turned North and walked with great views across towards Ingleborough and the 3 peaks to the hidden waterfall of catrigg force. […] Read the rest

Sunshine, rain, slate, hills and more food than you can contemplate in a wonderful hut in sublime position, what more could you want for a birthday meet .....

I headed over to Ilkley for the area AGM this week, it's only 40 miles but a pain with York traffic and getting there for 7 was a bit of an ask, so I didn't.

The meeting was trundling along when i arrived (followed by many others) and went trough the usual election of officers, access reps (Dave M being elected in his absence) and a new Hill Walking rep […] Read the rest

I (Pete E) have recently returned from a road cycling tour of the north of Ireland.

350 miles visiting every county in the north of Ireland using a variety of Sustrans routes.

The journey started with the overnight ferry from Birkenhead to Belfast.

Saturday, 5.30am alarm call to vacate cabin by 6.00am.

Rode from ferry terminal to Belfast along side of River Lagan.

Cafe stop for breakfast – Oscars Champagne […] Read the rest

Karl and I headed over to the Leeds Wall on Sunday to play on the dry tooling wall/tower. It's been there a while but i've never been and K had his shiny axes to scratch up. We took big boots to make it feel more real and arrived midday ish ...

This year's RAB was based just off the A6 a few miles south of Shap. As usual in this event we were doing Short Score - 6 hours on day 1 and 5 on day 2 to score as many points as possible.

It was looking for a while like there'd be hardly anyone on this meet, perhaps people were put off by the thought of Langdale crowds on an August Bank Holiday weekend. But after a flurry of late sign-ups it was almost a sell-out.

It's a week after the event, and I'm just about rested enough to string a few vaguely intelligible sentences together, so here goes.