We collect together the best photographs from every trip and publish them here with a little bit of information about every adventure. Hopefully it provides a bit of inspiration, and it may even encourage you to join our club!
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The annual winter trip of 2020 was based just outside Aviemore. The snow conditions were good, although it was extremely windy all week and we did get beaten back off the Fiacaill Ridge on one day out. Highlights included reaching the summit of Cairn Gorm in wild weather and a lovely route on the Meall…
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The 2019 Christmas trip saw the club staying at Idwal Cottage Youth Hostel. Cold and frosty conditions on the Saturday were ideal for some winter scrambling up Y Gribin onto Glyder Fawr and then Y Garn – complete with Brocken Spectre. Sunday was a trek up Pen Llithrig y Wrach (the Slippery Peak of the…
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It’s a long way across Wales to Brechfa Forest, but three of us made it this far to sample the mountain biking on offer. Cwm Rhaeadr was so good we rode it twice, and would have done it a third time if it weren’t for the need to drive all the way home afterwards.
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The 2017 Christmas trip involved a stay at Idwal Cottage Youth Hostel, murky weather and an excellent festive dinner feast (including the traditional goats in ponchos). Saturday’s walk was a slushy trudge up onto Glyder Fach, a walk along to Glyder Fawr in the snow and then the familiar descent into Cwm Idwal. On Sunday…
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The connoisseur’s route from Glen Nevis campsite turns left at the ‘Halfway Lochan’ and contours round beneath the north face of Ben Nevis. It looks an entirely different mountain from this angle, and the walker’s route involving staggering up the steep ground onto Càrn Mòr Dearg, from where the view is really quite good (if…
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