Category: Featured Meets

Sun, sand and sea; the best crag in the world and a huge beach BBQ. Check out this short video of the Rucksack Club’s Gogarth Meet (with guest appearance by Callum Muskett!) courtesy of BMC TV, https://youtu.be/il909Fi9hKE Whilst this video was made in 2014, the meet occurs every year..a few pictures below from the 2019 RC Gogarth Meet. It’s all happening again on 13 & 14 June 2020 and we’re delighted to welcome guests along to join in the fun – email the meet coordinator at dominic@oughton.uk.com if you want to find out more, or place an advanced order for veggie burgers!

Whilst there has not been a formal Alpine Meet this year, members have been active in the main part of the European Alps and a tem also visited Colorado. The list compiled includes both spring ski ascents as well as the traditional summer alpine activities. The prize for the greatest activity goes to Dave Palmer who has had an incredibly prolific year…as well as climbing a fair number of excellent alpine rock routes on lower peaks, he nabbed 12 of the major 4000m peaks as well as a fair number of subsidiary 4000m summits…his picture below  sums up a feeling we all get at times in the Alps!  Will Harris squeezed in the Pierre Allain Route on the North face of the Dru during a busy season guiding; these are noted in the list below. Several others had good trips too and undoubtedly some members activities have been missed altogether, hence the use of  ‘Snapshot’ in the title! Apologies to any member not contacted and thanks to everyone who submitted info, allowing this list to be compiled.   Chamonix/Mt Blanc Massif  The Dru North Face/Pierre Allain Route: Will Harris [RC] and Stu Macaleese Stu Macaleese on the Lambert Crack. Photo Will[…]

The Rucksack Club Expedition Grant   The Rucksack Club is pleased to be able to award an expedition grant of £500 each year to support expeditions by members and associate members under the age of 30. To be eligible, expeditions must involve activities fitting with the clubs ethos, with preference given to mountaineering trips to destinations outside Europe with an objective that will be challenging or present a step up for the participants.   By accepting a grant recipients agree to: Acknowledge club support in any reports about the trip Write an article for the RC Journal and allow any accompanying photos to be used on the Club Website and in other club literature. Provide a brief summary of their expedition upon its completion. Agree that if the expedition is cancelled that the grant will be returned to the club in full.   The deadline for applications is 30 November, for expeditions taking place in the following calendar year. In order to apply email a completed application form to: will.thomas.harris@gmail.com

Experts have warned that about 250,000 cubic metres of ice are in danger of breaking away from the Planpincieux glacier on the Grandes Jorasses. See the full story on the BBC website via the following link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49820542

The Rucksack Club is pleased to announce that its first Expedition Grant [2018] has been awarded to Felix Terrell and Will Rupp who are final year undergraduate students at Manchester University, members of MUMC and Associate Members of the Rucksack Club.  Will and Felix on Naranjo de Bulnes Felix and Will write: Yosemite, the Bugaboos, cirque of the unclimbables…Jordan? The list has only kept growing, making any decision ever-increasingly harder. Will and I have been climbing together for the last few years and, when there’s spare time or bad weather, studying at the University of Manchester. But we’re in our last year now and the time for a big trip is on the horizon – hopefully a jagged horizon with cliffs poking out; and if the last four years have taught me anything it’s that there’s nothing like a deadline to finally bring about some action… After much deliberation, researching and a trip to the pub, we decided on a trip to Madagascar, applied for and were lucky enough to get awarded the Rucksack Club grant. The granite cliffs of Tsaramoro Massif pose the perfect blend of adventure, difficulty level and big walling – neither of us have had to[…]

Snap-shot of member activities 2018 Many members have been very active over 2018…this is just a small Snap-shot of some of the things that have gone on over the year. For more pictures of these, and other activities, please visit ‘The 2018 year in pictures’ in the Gallery. Mike Zeidan and Helen Pritchard kicked off the year with a 33hr double-double Marsden-Edale to join an elite band of Club members who have completed this feat of endurance of around Over the first weekend in January Mike Zeidan and Helen Pritchard completed a Marsden -Edale double- double, covering the 90 miles and 6000 metres in all variety of weather conditions. The first double was completed in under 12 hours so there was time for a break before joining the doublers as they started their night venture. The excellent support, good company and mountain hares stay in my memory the most…reportedly the doublers found it hard to keep up with them on their final leg!   Andy Llewellyn completed a long held ambition of completing a ‘circuit’ of the 100 highest Wainwrights’ within 5 days, accompanied by Helen Pritchard [yes, that lady again!], covering a distance of 167 miles and 57,000 ft[…]