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Tony Smythe

The Club is sorry to hear of the death of Tony Smythe who was a member of the CC back in the 1960s. He was known for being the son of Frank Smythe, the noted Himalayan mountaineer, but probably better known for being the co-author...

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Meet Report 10-11/2/24 Pembroke (Range West Briefing)

Six members attended the meet and made the 9am briefing at Merrion Camp. After a 30 minute briefing by the Range Safety Officer and a PCNPA Warden, the 6 members headed into the range from Stack Rocks to Greenham Common. This proved to be above...

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CC Newsletter January 2024

      Sublime conditions, East Ridge of Beinn a' Chaorainn Photo: Anne Daykin. Click for larger image The Club Officers have just finished writing their contributions to the Annual Report. Look out for an email soon with a link to the report and the...

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Access to Robertson Lamb Hut (Wayfarers' Club) 2023

The 2023 revision of the Hamish Nichol Accord with the Wayfarers’ Club has now been formally signed off. The agreement allows CC members easy access and preferential rates at the Robertson Lamb Hut in Langdale; in return Wayfarers' members can book into any of our...

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Meet report Women’s focused meet, RO Downes Hut, 22-24 September 2023

The CC’s first women’s focused meet saw an enthusiastic group gather at the Downes hut on the Friday night, augmented by extra climbers on Saturday and more attending the evening event. Although not specifically billed as an aspirants’ meet there were six newcomers, all of...

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Mass Maintenance Meets - November 24 - 26

We have blocked out all the huts for the weekend of November 24-26 for maintenance meets and will be having a mass event across the estate to thoroughly clean and complete running repairs for each hut. As stated before, the format will be for a...

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Late Summer Meet 2023 Report 30th August to 13th September 2023 – Count House

This meet was a big success in so many ways! First of all we had fantastic weather, mostly hot (sometimes shady crags were needed), dry and sunny. We had one wet day which was good for shopping and relaxing. Many people were either camped out...

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Joint CC/LC&CC Llanberis Meet 16/17 Sep

I had a lot of fun at the joint Llanberis Meet this weekend, despite a ridiculously changeable forecast. 20 and a bit people came along. So a success depending upon your perspective.........or which club you are in. 17 were LC&CC members, albeit 4 are also...

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Pembroke Meet report 2023

This Pembroke meet was brilliant. We had mostly excellent weather, good tides and lots of enthusiastic CC members ready to get out climbing every day. There was 21 of us in the hut, camping and in vans. A wide range of climbs were done from...

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Count House Joint CC/Rucksack Club meet 9-17 July 2023

During the week there were around 11-16 from each club; most arrived sometime around the start of the meet and many left early because the rain became disappointingly persistent towards the weekend. Two hardy Rucksack folk cycled from Exeter over a couple of days, managing...

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Tony Smythe

The Club is sorry to hear of the death of Tony Smythe who was a member of the CC back in the 1960s. He was known for being the son of Frank Smythe, the noted Himalayan mountaineer, but probably better […]

Meet Report 10-11/2/24 Pembroke (Range West Briefing)

Six members attended the meet and made the 9am briefing at Merrion Camp. After a 30 minute briefing by the Range Safety Officer and a PCNPA Warden, the 6 members headed into the range from Stack Rocks to Greenham Common. […]

CC Newsletter January 2024

      Sublime conditions, East Ridge of Beinn a’ Chaorainn Photo: Anne Daykin. Click for larger image The Club Officers have just finished writing their contributions to the Annual Report. Look out for an email soon with a link […]

Dudley Cheal

Dudley Cheal, a member for thirty years, died peacefully on 29 January 2024. Right to the end Dudley was in touch with other CC members and their friendship over the years meant a great deal to him. We offer our […]

Access to Robertson Lamb Hut (Wayfarers’ Club) 2023

The 2023 revision of the Hamish Nichol Accord with the Wayfarers’ Club has now been formally signed off. The agreement allows CC members easy access and preferential rates at the Robertson Lamb Hut in Langdale; in return Wayfarers’ members can […]

Meet report Women’s focused meet, RO Downes Hut, 22-24 September 2023

The CC’s first women’s focused meet saw an enthusiastic group gather at the Downes hut on the Friday night, augmented by extra climbers on Saturday and more attending the evening event. Although not specifically billed as an aspirants’ meet there […]

Mass Maintenance Meets – November 24 – 26

We have blocked out all the huts for the weekend of November 24-26 for maintenance meets and will be having a mass event across the estate to thoroughly clean and complete running repairs for each hut. As stated before, the […]

Late Summer Meet 2023 Report 30th August to 13th September 2023 – Count House

This meet was a big success in so many ways! First of all we had fantastic weather, mostly hot (sometimes shady crags were needed), dry and sunny. We had one wet day which was good for shopping and relaxing. Many […]

Joint CC/LC&CC Llanberis Meet 16/17 Sep

I had a lot of fun at the joint Llanberis Meet this weekend, despite a ridiculously changeable forecast. 20 and a bit people came along. So a success depending upon your perspective………or which club you are in. 17 were LC&CC […]

John Willson RIP

We are sad to report the death of John Willson on 17 September. He was made an Honorary Member of the Club in 1999 and he served on the Publications Sub Committee for 27 years. We offer our condolences to […]

Aspirants’ Meet Borrowdale 2023

The weather forecast was not looking very favorable for the weekend as I did the last-minute planning for the meet. I had a good selection of Aspirants and hoped that we could show off the best of our club. Unfortunately, […]

CC Skye Meet 2023

Twenty hardy members made the long journey to Skye to be repaid with a week of amazing weather. With such good weather lots of climbing was done both on the mountain crags and sea cliffs, classic scrambles and a traverse […]

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