Category: Featured Meets

Carole Smithies writes: Further to Gordon Adshead’s Thanksgiving Service. Came back from holiday to find a note from Judy posted earlier this month, in which she says she could have never imagined so many Club members would come to say goodbye to him, he would have been amazed. She has asked me to pass on this message to you all. “Judy and Gordon’s whole family want to thank Club Members for all their cards and kind messages and especially their presence at the Service.  It means such a lot to us all.”

This week is the last chance to secure a room at the Cairn Hotel, Harrogate for the Annual Dinner at the RC negotiated price. We have already sold out of twin rooms for Saturday night, and only have two ‘classic’ doubles left and half a dozen or so superior rooms.    Dinner tickets themselves will remain on sale until towards the end of October. I am currently in China so please drop me an email if you would like a room.

For many years the club has run a successful programme of Wednesday climbing wall meets in the Manchester area, currently run by John Jefferies.   This year the club has decided to experiment with a Sheffield based Winter Walls programme in addition to the Manchester meets. Initially we will run these until Christmas, if they prove popular we will extend them, and if not we won’t. For the initial run I have organised them how I like my indoor climbing, with repeat trips to the same wall to have a second attempt on all the things I failed on the week before.  Along with a mix of route climbing and bouldering.   If they prove popular, and we extend them into spring I’ll seek feedback on what people prefer.  I have also only selected a couple of pubs for now, as there is no point choosing a pub on the west side of Sheffield, if everyone who comes lives on the east etc. and the Depot and AW both lack nice pubs in the vicinity. Date Venue Pub 27/09/2023 Depot Shakespeare, S3 8UA 04/10/2023 Depot The Crow Inn, S3 7BS 11/10/2023 Awesome Walls tbd 18/10/2023 Awesome Walls … 25/10/2023 Climbing Works ..[…]

As the nights draw in, we all need something to look forward to… Good News – we’ve got a packed Indoor Meets season that is sure to entertain and enthral, as well as providing a much-needed opportunity to socialise! We’ll be sticking with the successful format of last year, with a monthly event on (typically) the second Tuesday of the month, with three of these (Oct / Dec / Jan) in-person at Heaton Moor Rugby Club (also on Zoom for those who can’t make it in person) and Nov / Feb / March shows on Zoom. Entry will be FREE for all Members and Associate Members of The Rucksack Club, with a modest charge for non-members for the October f2f event featuring a guest speaker. 10th October (In person – Heaton Moor) – Franco Cookson, Chasing The Impossible Franco Cookson is one of Britain’s most accomplished and boldest trad climbers, with a string of first ascents up to E11, and an uncompromising philosophy recently captured in the acclaimed Brit Rock film Fall Theory. Join Franco as he agonises in the quest for the perfect objective. Where is the boundary between the ideal hard route and the lunacy of the impossible?[…]

Neil Goldsmith writes: Now that the summer is drawing to a close, it’s time to put pen to paper and write up all of those adventures. In the recent editions of the Journal there have been a number of retrospectives. It would be good to fill the Journal with what is happening now. Without contributions, there is no Journal. Get writing! Neil Goldsmith. Journal Editor

Joint Rucksack Club Meet with the Climbers Club at The Count House, Cornwall. July 10-16. The forecast for the week didn’t look great as we headed to Cornwall, but has this ever deterred us?! John and I arrived at the Count House to find quite a few CC members already there…the majority of the RC members arrived on Monday, with two hardy individuals arriving in pouring rain on Wednesday afternoon having cycled over a couple of days from Exeter, even managing to nab a route on Haytor [Dartmoor] and another on The Lizard on the way! Over the week, 11 CC members and 16 RC members and guests enjoyed a couple of wonderful sunny days, two more mixed days when it dried up late morning allowing good climbing conditions over the remainder of the days and two very wet and windy days…one being Friday when many decided to head home early. A highlight of the week was a communal pasty supper night, with a local supplier providing an excellent selection of meat and veggie pasties of varying sizes! Thanks to the CC for helping to sponsor this evening. A pesky little virus also visited, but the vast majority of people[…]