Recent trips

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!

  • Christmas Trip 2019

    Christmas Trip 2019

    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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  • Calderdale mountain biking

    A weekend exploring the trails in and around Calderdale

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  • Rhinogydd

    Rhinogydd

    The aim was simple. Most of us had never been to this bit of North Wales before, so we wanted to see it all in a single weekend. Day 1 was a beautiful sunny day and we headed for the northern end of the range. Very rough walking through the glaciated landscape took us to

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  • Cadair Idris climbing

    Cadair Idris climbing

    Perfect weather for climbing and scrambling on the Cwfrwy Arête

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  • Brechfa Forest mountain biking

    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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  • Christmas Trip 2017

    Christmas Trip 2017

    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 Dolomites

    The Dolomites

    An adventurous week in Dolomites.

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  • Ben Nevis

    Ben Nevis

    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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