2012 Meets - Home and Abroad

Date
Meet and Venue
 Meet Leader
February 3-5
Annual Dinner Meet, Patterdale and Glenridding Hotel.
Brooke Midgley
March 16-18
Onich, Scotland
John Dempster
April 21-28
Durness, N Scotland, cottage or bunkhouse
Margaret Strachan
May 5-7
Hurdlow, Derbyshire (Camping Barn)
Andy Burton
May 18-20
Rhyd Ddu, Oread club hut, North Wales
Ed Bramley
June 22-24
Switzerland, Britannia Hut Centenary Celebrations
Mike Pinney
July 7-21
Summer Alpine Hotel Meet, Gressoney la Trinite, Italy
Pam Harris
July 15-Aug 5
Summer Alpine Camping Meet, Innertkirchen, Switzerland
Mike Pinney
August 22-24
Patterdale, Hut Maintenance, G S Hut.
Don Hodge
September 1-8
Alpine trek – Karwendel Mountains, Austria
Ed Bramley
September 21-23
Patterdale Autumn Buffet Party, G S Hut
Mike Pinney
October 26-28
Alpine Reunion Meet, G S Hut
Mike Pinney
October - date to be advised
Beer Meet, Devon
James Baldwin

Details of the Meets are below. Please book direct with the Meet Leader, unless otherwise stated. Contact numbers are in the Newsletter or Journal.

2012 London lecture programme

February 7 - Paul Cherry – AAC (UK) – Songs and Stories
March 6 - Mike Pinney – ABMSAC - Kyajo Ri - a first visit to Nepal.

London Lecture programme details are in the news section.



February 3-5 - Annual Dinner Meet - Glenridding Hotel and George Starkey Hut.
The Dinner will be held at the Glenridding Hotel on the Saturday evening 7.00 for 7.30pm.

Members wishing to stay at the hotel need to book direct with the hotel.
Please book early for the standard rooms (Tel 017684 82228, www.bw-glenriddinghotel.co.uk). There is a departure from the procedure of previous years, as the owners of the hotel charge the various grades of room at different prices. Therefore you need to specify the particular type of room you require when you book.
The prices are for a minimum stay of 2 nights, bed & breakfast.
Standard Room, first 2 nights: £49.00/person/night. Extra nights are at £28.00/person/night.
Single Room, first 2 nights: £55.00 /person/night. Extra nights are at £37.50/person/night.
Single Occupancy of a double room, first 2 nights: £70.00/person/night. Extra nights are at £51.00/person/night.
Lake View room supplement: £10.00/night
Superior room supplement: £25.00/night
Family room supplement: £7.50/night. Children’s breakfasts are extra, under 8 £5.00, 8 & over £8.

Except for Saturday evening, 3 course dinners in the Dining Room will be £24.00/person. Children will be charged at half price.

The Dinner (4 courses) is £32.00. It has been suggested that members have a choice of dinner menu. We have made the following arrangement with the hotel. There will be 3 choices of main course:
a) Rack of lamb, b) Poached salmon or c) Vegetarian

Please book Hut places and Saturday Evening Dinner with Brooke. Please use the form attached at the end of the November Newsletter to indicate your choice when booking (and paying) with Brooke. Your booking must be received by Brooke by 21st January. Members booking late will not be able to have a choice of dinner.

Travel to the Annual Dinner weekend. If you are interested in coordinating transport and have not been able to make any such arrangements, please contact Mike Pinney.

March 16-18 - Onich, Scotland - Following our successful meet at Onich last year I am planning a repeat this year, and have reserved a self catering chalet at Inchree for the nights of 16-18 March.

The significance of these dates is that John F has a significant birthday around this time, and has kindly offered to provide a little refreshment with which we can help him to celebrate.

The cost of the accommodation will be approx £16 pppn, based on a three night stay.
Accommodation is also available in the Lodge at £24.50 pppn for a double or twin room with en suite bathroom and communal kitchen.
If you would like to come please let me know as soon as possible, and indicate which type of accommodation you would prefer.

As you all know, Onich is an excellent centre and Inchree, with bar and restaurant on site suits our needs very well. I hope to see you there. To book contact John Dempster

April 21-28 - Durness, N Scotland - cottage or bunkhouse. We have provisionally booked a cottage which sleeps 8 in the village of Durness, details as follows: 4 bedrooms, lounge, large kitchen.

It is situated in the village in the walking distance to pub. All linen provided at no extra cost. Accommodation costs, depending on level of occupancy, will fall between £10 to £16 ppn approx.

Bunkhouse accommodation is also available at the "Lazy Crofter Bunkhouse" in the village. It sleeps twenty / Dorm and 2x2 people rooms, and provides all linen. This would be a book your own option. Bunkhouse website: www.durnesshostel.co.uk . To book the cottage contact Margaret Strachan.

May 5-7 - Hurdlow, Derbyshire - the meet is again at the Royal Oak at Hurdlow.

The Camping Barn has ample rooms and there is a camp site (www.peakpub.co.uk/camping). Accommodation is in the Camping Barn next to the pub. The cost of accommodation has gone up to £15 a night per person and to secure one of the 20 places I have provisionally booked I need a 50% non-refundable deposit as soon as possible. There is camping available too but that has to be paid in full at time of booking.

As last year the meet is over the May Bank Holiday weekend, so it is for three nights in total, with a dinner in the pub on Saturday night and a BBQ on the Sunday on the adjoining campsite. If people can go on the website and choose the meal they would like for the Saturday evening, it will be the later sitting at about 8-30pm to allow maximum use of the day, and let me know when booking a place I will pre book that with the pub as I did last year.

Last year climbing parties went to the Roaches, the Gritstone Edges and Gardoms as well as on the limestone slabs of Aldery Cliff. The Royal Oak is situated at the end of the High Peak Trail so there is some good cycling on offer as well as walking and climbing.

If you want to know more about the area and to book onto the meet contact Andy Burton.

May 18-20 - Rhyd Ddu, Oread club hut – North Wales.
The meet is a similar format to recent years with a communal meal in the hut on the Saturday evening. Contact Ed Bramley to book a place.

June 22-24, Switzerland, Britannia Hut
Centenary Celebrations for the weekend. This a self-book meet for travel and hotels. To book Hut places contact Mike Pinney.

July 7-21 - Italy, Gressoney la Trinite, Hotel Meet. The 2012 Hotel based Alpine Meet will run from Saturday 7 July until Saturday 21 July and will be based at the 3* Hotel Dufour in Gressoney La Trinite.

Gressoney is the northernmost village close to the head of the beautiful Valle Lys (aka Valle Gressoney) to which the Walsers emigrated from the Valais in Switzerland many centuries ago. Today the Walser culture lives on in the architecture, the dress and the local language. Gressoney is reached from Pont St Martin in the Valle d'Aosta to which there is rail transport from and to Turin. Car drivers will probably drive via the Mont Blanc or St Bernard Tunnels or over the St Bernard Pass.

Accommodation has been booked at the Hotel Dufour and the cost for dinner, bed and breakfast will be 52 euros pppn with a 20% supplement for single rooms. All rooms have private facilities and a balcony. The hotel has the following facilities: lift, bar, lounge, a terrace, a sauna and a games room. The village is at the foot of Monte Rosa massif and several other 4000m peaks, and the ascent of these and other lesser peaks are aided by many uplift facilities. The area also has many and varied mountain walks again aided by the various lifts.

Reservations on either a confirmed or provisional basis can now be accepted but I hope that provisional bookings will be converted to confirmed reservations without too great a delay. When booking please advise the date you plan to arrive and the day that you plan to leave. I am required to pay a deposit of 50 euros per person by end March 2012 so I will ask for it or its sterling equivalent to be paid to me by mid March 2012.

Contact Pam Harris to book onto the meet.

July 14-Aug 5 – Innertkirchen, Switzerland - Joint Alpine Camping Meet.
This is a joint meet with ABMSAC, CC, FRCC & Wayfarers. The last meet there was in 2008.

Centrally sited for Oberland and the Engelhorner to the west, Susten Pass and Salbitschijen to the east, and Grimsel Pass, Handegg and Oberland to the south.
Guide Books: Alpine Club-Bernese Oberland Selected Climbs, Schweiz-Plaisir-West, Schweiz-Plaisir-Ost.
Co-ordinator: Mike Pinney

August 22-24 - Patterdale, Hut Maintenance, G S Hut. Contact Don Hodge

September 1-8 - Alpine trek - Karwendel mountains, Austria. A strenuous trek, which intends to complete the unfinished business of 2007! This involves a high level circuit of the Karwendel mountains, starting and finishing in Innsbruck.

Several people have already booked onto the meet and members should contact Ed Bramley by the Annual Dinner to book one of the few remaining places.

September 21-23 - George Starkey Hut Buffet Party - Following the format of the last couple of years, there will not be a slide show, but now that most people have gone digital, a few laptops will be around to enable attendees to compare pictures from the summer.

The price of the buffet will be £10, including Swiss food and wine.

Please contact Mike Pinney for bookings for the buffet and hut places, together with offers of help with the food.

October – date to be finalised - East Devon Meet, Beer
This meet will repeat the format of previous years and there will be Saturday and Sunday walks in East Devon. For details and accommodation arrangements contact James Baldwin.

October 26-28 - Alpine Reunion Meet, G S Hut, joint meet with ABMSAC, FRCC, CC & Wayfarers. Open to all who have attended Alpine Meets in 2012 (or intended to). Co-ordinator: Mike Pinney