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Calendar 2024

New Year Meet  29/30/31st December 2023  This is very much happening this year!  Although it could be said that we need more members to join it!  Why not spend New Year in this great venue. There is still time to join us at Pen y Pass.

Contact Harvey.   

The Steve Ogden Memorial Meet LAKES  26th – 28th January 2024  Sarah & Andy are looking after arrangements again this year.  The venue for the meet will be the Patterdale hotel, and most people have now reserved accommodation – although, if rooms are still available, later bookings could be taken. We know the food is very good. All arrangements now in place, bookings sorted, and deposits paid. The balance will be due soon.  

Please contact Sarah for further details. later in November, she needs to know type of room needed. Bring on the good weather!  

Early Spring gathering to remember Brian.  Confirmed 15th /16th /17th March In the past we have based a meet at about this weekend - another grand and friendly gathering is suggested for 2024, with the theme being memories of Brian and his love for Snowdonia. We can use HyG as a base, and there is plenty of other accommodation available. The bonuses include a dinner out on the Saturday evening and perhaps a good trip in the hills, even with some rock climbing for those that are keen, thrown in. Put the date in your diary.

Contact Harvey to book, more details to follow accommodation available at HyG and other venues.

Easter, 29th March to 1st April

The Scottish Meet 2024  Friday April 26 – May 3rd  Accommodation (Bynack) booked on Mar Lodge Estate  

https://www.sykescottages.co.uk/cottage/Aberdeenshire-Angus-Mar-Lodge/Bynack-Mar-Lodge-Estate-1060441.html , an excellent walking area, a good venue to celebrate the clubs 52nd anniversary, Nearly fully booked at present (Dec 2023) with 1 vacant bed.  Also probably other accommodation available in the area.

  

Judith Holt is 2024 organiser, contact for more details.  

A Snowdonia Weekend,  Provisional 1/2/3/4th June  Also the Welsh 1000 metres Race 1st June. No longer our baby, although Kate Worthington, from Nant Peris is the race director this year. This does not stop us having a meet over this weekend and also if you wish help with the race. Let Harvey know. Accommodation at Hafod y Gwynt, from 1st June, Tyn y Coed or other B & Bs could book now.    If I can help in anyway, please contact me, book Pen y Pass, or Plas y Brenin if needed. Extend to Tuesday / Wednesday for some more time to at the hills, or the corpse, or even socialising?   

A Memorial Service for Brian Saturday, 8 June 2024, at 2:00 pm St Mary the Virgin University Church on the High Street in Oxford.  It will be followed by a memorial reception at St Catherine’s College from 3:00 to 5:00.

Oxfordshire Meet  6th and 7th July   Another grand weekend on the Cotswolds or Chiltern Hills, we certainly had an enjoyable break in 2023.  Kate will be organising this. There will be a walk with a picnic lunch on the Saturday with a meal/buffet on Saturday evening.  

It may be possible to accommodate visitors in the homes of our Oxford locals.  Let Kate know if you are coming and how you are fixed for accommodation..  

Summer Alpine Meet  Provisional date About July 9th to 23rd Any chance of this happening?  Sadly this event has faded off the calendar - It would be great to revive it in 2024. Certainly, the Dolomites will be there whichever year we choose! Perhaps Austria would make a change? No one showed any interest in 2023 – perhaps this is the way forward? In 2024 I suggested as an alternative could be a ramble along Offa’s Dike?

Contact Harvey if you have any ideas.  

The Autumn Meet 2024  Provisional date 22/23rd/24th September Rodney did well in 2023 – but problems here and there reduced the gathering. Something similar would be great, it is hoped that again someone will adopt this meet and leap at the opportunity of organising another September meet, if so a Info sheet and booking form to follow.  

Contact Harvey if you have any ideas

Dinner Meet  October 4th/5th  A very good response in 2023 can we keep the numbers up?  The venue will be The Royal Oak, Betws.  As democracy rules in the Gorphwysfa, we are going to have again the official AGM of the club at 5 45pm on the night of the dinner at Hafod y Gwynt. The meeting will close at 6pm or earlier. Items for the agenda can be submitted now; the executive committee will consider their suitability for acceptance.  

More info nearer the date but put it in your diary!  

New Year Meet  29/30/31st December? Hopefully will it happen.  The Executive committee or the club members need to review this event/ both venue and date.  Let Harvey know if you are interested – for this meet to continue we do need club support.

The Steve Ogden Memorial Meet, Lakes  Feb 28th 2025

Organised by Andrew Middleton.  Bring on the good weather.

 

Scotland in the Spring 2025  Date TBD  Scotland in the Spring 2025 seems a long way off but remember how time flies!! The agency that produced the venue for 2024 has other similar venues, including a castle for over 50 persons, a good venue to celebrate the clubs 53rd anniversary. Organiser, date, and venue required!  


No Nepal / the Himalaya meet in 2023.  I am sorry I faded, perhaps because of the lack of interest!  I am still playing with the idea – perhaps …2024 -  we had a great Meet in 2019 – and I am sure we could match it.  Himalaya mountains are for the more fit – but there is plenty to do for the aged wimps of the club as well, and again two trips can be run alongside each other. Contact  Harvey - or do we have another interested organiser?


If you are interested in getting out on the hills with the Gorphwysfa then you need to note the above dates in your diaries now and get in touch with the appropriate organiser! Remember that friends are really welcomed to come along to our meets, and so become involved in the club.