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

Drôme Spring 2025

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When I try to share my enthusiasm for the Drôme I am often met with a blank stare, or at best a vague confession of half knowledge. So here’s a little backgound… Where is it? The Drôme is a department in south-east France, in the Rhone valley, south of Isère and north of Vaucluse – […]

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 […]

2025 – Great Gift Rock Climbs Meet

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The Great Gift Rock Climbs The aim of this meet is for members to collectively climb on a crag on each of the 12 Summits of the Great Gift. Following on from the centenary of the dedication of the plaque on Great Gable and the climbing of the 12 summits gifted by the FRCC to […]

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. […]