The Club Regrets to Announce the Death of Audrey Chesover

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Dear all, I am sorry to have to inform you all that Audrey passed away peacefully last night at 10:45pm in the nursing home. The home made sure that she was very comfortable in the time that she was there. She requested an unattended cremation and to have her ashes scattered back in the Lake […]

New Year 2024-2025

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Hogmanay in Langdale – walking etc and a convivial New Year with communal meal NY Eve: G&T’s, communal meal, music, quizzes & ceilidh to see in the New Year Raw Head Barn & Cottage. The meet includes both with a maximum number of 40 limited by seating space in the barn for the meal. Dec […]

Morocco Meet – February 2025

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Climbing, walking and scrambling meet to the Anti-Atlas area of Morocco. Dates are Monday 10th February to Saturday 1st March staying in Tafraout, although people can join for a shorter period if they wish. The plan is to fly to Agadir and hire cars from there. EasyJet flies from both Manchester and Gatwick to Agadir. […]

Ice screw Recall – Petzl

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Petzl have recently issued this product recall on their LASER SPEED 10 cm ice screws https://www.petzl.com/INT/en/Sport/safety-alerts/2024-10-2/Recall-of-Petzl-LASER-SPEED-10-cm-ice-screws-%28Europe-only%29 Just in case you weren’t already sufficiently worried about dangling from a 4″ ice screw! Geoff Lyons

Sincere apologies

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THE FRCC JOURNAL WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR CIRCULATION AT THE AGM/DINNER WEEKEND   Sincere apologies to all members expecting to receive their copy of the 2024 journal this weekend. There have been several unforeseeable problems at the printers and printing of the journal has been delayed until 8th November.   Tony Walker FRCC Journal […]

THE FRCC JOURNAL WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR CIRCULATION AT THE AGM/DINNER WEEKEND

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Sincere apologies to all members expecting to receive their copy of the 2024 journal this weekend. There have been several unforeseeable problems at the printers and printing of the journal has been delayed until 8th November.   Tony Walker FRCC Journal Editor

Additional Nomination for Elective Member

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Since the AGM papers were published, and in accordance with Rule 6.5, there has been an additional nomination for the post of elective member.    This brings the total nominations for Elective Members to six, which is the number of vacancies available.  The additional nomination is detailed on the Club’s website under the item 2024 […]

Annual dinner, Castle Green Hotel Kendal, Saturday 2nd November, 7pm

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Time is running out before numbers have to be finalised. Following Chris Paul’s extensive survey of members, the buffet option, once available, has been reintroduced to provide a less expensive, informal option, this time with musical accompaniment from the renowned FRCC music group. Please book now, as after all a lot of members asked for […]

Books

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Surprisingly, considering the quality of books for sale there has not been the response as in previous announcements. An example of books for sale: Fast and Free, a biography of Pete Livesey £55 Joe Brown, the Hard Years, £22 Menlove, a biography of Menlove Edwards, £25 One Man’s Mountains, the writings of Tom Party, £28. […]