This is the Group’s latest Newsletter and as usual it will also be placed on our web site. Events that have occurred since the last edition are detailed below and reports of each are on the website. The Secretary would be most grateful to receive any contributions for future editions.

 

Membership has had a welcome boost recently and is currently at 27. A warm welcome is extended to new members Margaret McCracken and Shaun Williams who have joined recently.

 

 

The recent AGM was a great success with fourteen members attending the meeting and eighteen enjoying the subsequent meal.  There were nine members and four guests on the walk prior to the meeting. This explored Blencathra and its environs with five intrepid bodies braving the slippery slopes of Sharp Edge.

 

We have now been at Caldbeck for three years and the time may have come to move on. If anyone has any ideas for a future venue then please let Tony know.

 

http://www.ldwa.org.uk/Cumbria/W/1516/annual-general-meeting-2011.html

 

http://www.ldwa.org.uk/Cumbria/N/1513/agm-walk.html

 

 

 

 

The seventh Three Rings of Shap took place on 18^th June and proved to be successful once again despite the best efforts of the weather to spoil things. Early heavy rain soon abated and there were 120 starters out of 146 entries. 29 completed the full Event with the remainder enjoying one or two Rings.

 

The eighth Event will be on 23^rd June 2012 so please keep this date free if possible!

Entry forms are available from Tony and online entry is again available.

 

http://www.ldwa.org.uk/Cumbria/W/1338/2011-report-and-results.html

 

http://www.ldwa.org.uk/Cumbria/W/485/2012-entry-form-and-event-details.html

 

 

RECENT WALKS

 

The following social walks have taken place since the last Newsletter and reports on each can be found in the Walks Reports section on the website –

 

http://www.ldwa.org.uk/Cumbria/N/0/walk-reports.html

 

22.5.11     More Wall wanderings

17.7.11     Time for tea – Mark 7

21.8.11     Ring 1

25.9.11     Upper Swaledale Circuit

30.10.11   AGM Walk

6.11.11     Four Crags

 

 

Our Away Weekend traversed the Wolds Way over the August bank holiday weekend and was attended by nine members and four guests. After a wet first day the weather was kind and the venue at South Cave excellent.

 

http://www.ldwa.org.uk/Cumbria/W/1434/yorkshire-wolds-way-2011.html

 

 

 

FEATURES

 

The following Events have also taken place this spring and summer –

 

Escape to Knoydart

An account of a trip to this iconic peninsula to climb its Munros.

 

http://www.ldwa.org.uk/Cumbria/W/1218/escape-to-knoydart.html

 

 

The Joss Naylor Lakeland Challenge

The story of the two Tony’s attempt on this long route.

 

http://www.ldwa.org.uk/Cumbria/W/1219/the-joss-naylor-lakeland-challenge.html

 

 

Antics in Alicante

A recent walking holiday inSpain

 

http://www.ldwa.org.uk/Cumbria/W/1481/antics-in-alicante.html

 

 

 

 

 

FUTURE EVENTS

 

 

 

Sunday 11.12.11                                MINCE PIE WALK

15 miles

Meet 08.30 8,NewfieldPark,Kingstown,Carlisle(just offScotland Rd.-A7)

NY 398 589,LR 85

Another mystery tour from our esteemed Walk Secretary’s abode. Worth coming if only for Stella’s après walk hospitality!

Leader: Derek Heatherington (01228 536645)

 

 

 

 

Sunday 15.1.12                                     ARMATHWAITE  AMBLE

15 miles

Meet near Armathwaite Bridge & Fox and Pheasant

NY 507 461, LR 86

Heading east through Coombs Wood to explore the villages beneath Croglin Fell.

Leader: Louise Smith (01228 561902)

 

 

 

Sunday 26.2.12

Details awaited

Leader: Jim Crockett (01228 513068)

 

 

 

Sunday 25.3.12                                  A  HAWESWATER ROUND

17 miles; 4,000ft ascent.

Meet Burnbanks (NY 509 162, LR 90)

A high level circuit above Haweswater. Good for the bagger as at least 7 Wainwrights including High Street will be visited.

Leader: Tony Richmond (01768 867511)

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