We will start at 11.00 am at Ashover Village Hall, On street parking or there are usually plenty of spaces at the Village Hall, SK 351632. Most of the route is not on the White Peak map, you need Explorer 269, Chesterfield and Alfreton. My plan is cunningly to avoid all the steepest ups and […]

Winter climbing in the northern Cairngorm.Hopefully the new year will bring good conditions for mixed climbing, with frozen turf and rimed up rock or better still the ice will be in on Creag Meagidh? One way to find out! We are staying at the SLC hut in Newtonmore which is well situated for both Megy […]

A double bill from Andy Miller and Martin Bennett

Please join me on New Year’s Day for a 7-8 mile stroll taking in Youlgreave, Alport, Over Haddon for lunch at the Lathkill Hotel, Lathkill Dale and Cave Dale. We shall start from the car park on Moor Lane SK194645 at 11.00. This car park in now pay and display I’m afraid but there is […]

I have booked The ULMC Hut ‘Fallcliffe Cottage’ between Grindleford andHathersage for Sat Dec 6th. The hut sleeps 16 and I have 10 people alreadyconfirmed. Please let me know, preferably via the ‘Bullstones’ WhatsApp group, ifyou too would like to join us. The format will be to meet in a pub ( hopefully TheBarrel Inn) […]

Please assemble at the car park at SK013756, near the NW corner of ErrwoodReservoir at 10.15 for a 10.30 start, (this should give us almost six hours ofdaylight, and so, I estimate, a two hours margin).Many have previously suffered in my company in the area but there remainsuntrodden ground. Since we will be looking at […]

Guiding in older age – Robin Beadle will tell us how his alpine guiding career was brought to an abrupt and premature end by Brexit and Covid. He will talk about this setback, and his recovery from it, including his recent guiding trips to Kyrgyzstan, Lhotse and Carstensz Pyramid amongst others. He will also reflect on his decision […]

We have 15 beds booked at the Fell and Rock Club’s Birkness Barn in theButtermere Valley in the Lake district. Located in one of the quieter valleys of thelakes, on the banks of Buttermere we should hopefully be in time to enjoy thebeauty this valley offers in its Autumnal colours.There is plenty of good hill […]

After the previous evening’s calorific excesses the President is offering a walkingsocial extension to the weekend. Assemble at the Tissington Trail Car Park at 10-45 am for an 11-00 am departure. The route wanders north-west through Newton Grange to Alsop En Le Dale, to then cross the valley and head for Parwich(Sycamore Inn as a […]

6.45pm for 7:15pmThe annual dinner is fully booked and will be at:The Bentley Brook InnFenny Bentley,Ashbourne DE6 1LF Christine Paice