Author: Bronwen Reid
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Redrope AGM 2019: Hathersage Rocks!
St Michaels Environmental and Education Centre, Main Rd, Hathersage, Hope Valley S32 1BB, UK The actual AGM will be on the Saturday from 4-6pm, meaning there will be plenty of time to get into the countryside on both days. It will be followed by the big meal and a quiz. There…
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Whose Land?
A review of “Our Place” by Mark Cocker (ISBN 9780224102292, Jonathan Cape) The “State of Nature” report on Britain was published in 2013. Over 3400 species were studied and it was found 60 per cent had declined in the last half century, with 31 percent declining badly. 600 were threatened with extinction. While some species…
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BMC AGM: Buxton – March 2019
I attended the BMC AGM weekend in Buxton on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 March 2019. There was a workshop for club’s reps on the Saturday afternoon which was well run and stimulating. Another on the Sunday morning was attended by at least twice as many people and seemed less satisfactory. The AGM later rubber-stamped…
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A Sea of Troubles? by Don Kinnibrugh
A popular rest-day activity for walkers on the Isle of Arran, when weather conditions or simple fatigue rule out another day on the hills, is to take the ferry across Lamlash Bay to Holy Island. This has been owned since 1992 by a Tibetan Buddhist Trust, which runs a guest house and offers courses and…
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Bulletin Autumn 2019 RR 37
Contents include National Weekend 2019, Cairngorms Winter Trip Report, Rebels on the Road XR action report, book review, poems, recipes and much more!
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Committee Members
This is an example of a password protected post. It has the category “Committee Only” – anything in this category will be protected There are no links to this post from the rest of the site NC 30 June 2018 MinutesV2 An extra copy of these minutes has been added here to show how we…
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Cornwall, 14-21 October 2017
National trip to the Climbers Club Hut, Bosigran, Cornwall, 14-21 October 2017 When I first enquired about this trip, the organiser, Pravin, described it as a great hut in a stunning location. With this in mind I travelled there from London by car with Sherry, Trudi and Pete. On arrival I found that the hut…
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Autumn Bulletin 2017
Contents include: So who was Glen Brittle? If Scotland was abroad… National Trips 2018
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Beddgelert – March 2017
Beddgelert: hut good, weather *%#! For a Leicester regional trip the March 2017 weekend at the excellent LMC ‘Cae Ysgubor’ hut in Beddgelert, – in which RR is a junior partner – had a remarkably ‘National’ feel to it, with members from all over the shop gathering on a rather changeable weekend to try to…