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Meet Co-ordinator: Paul Sheridan The March hut meet saw a select few venture up to the hut. In the end there were two of us for the weekend. Another member also joined us (for part of the weekend), they went up Friday morning to get an early walk in, only to be snowed on going up Elidir Fach and then turned back when thick cloud descended and the light started to go. The forecast was very good for Saturday and following a discussion about what to do we went round to do an asc

Meet Co-ordinator: Paul Sheridan The annual trip to Wintour’s Leap for the novice climbing meet relies on dry rock and hopefully sunshine. This year we were again favoured with a glorious sunny day and dry rock, not having had any rain for ages. This was the busiest novice meet I can remember with around 30 people attending. I was assisted by 7 other experienced people who helped make the day a success, thank you. This was the first time for many on the main cliffs of Winto

Meet Co-ordinator: Ian Inch. Aware my nigh nav is ropey I thought what better way to practice than to enlist members in an exercise ;-) Having selected a night with a new moon and a check with the Common Conservators I started tracking the weather forecast - a nice dry still night would do … When they appeared forecasts started wet - then dry and I gave a sigh of relief , then a bit wet again - was I getting a cold ? - no excuses there, so I confirmed the date. Then - with 2