1) Resignations
2) A Thank you from Simpsons Special Care Babies
3) Inver BBQ & Work Meet 12th / 13th May
4) Upcoming Meets
5) Journal 2011
6) Tuesday Evening Climbing Meets
Calendar
7) Wednesday Evening Walks
Calendar
8) Annual Dinner
9) Discount roundup
1)
Resignations
Unfortunately Mike Wicks has resigned from the committee as newsletter editor,
the committee would like to thank Mike for all of the hard work that he has put
in to the committee over the last 18months, especially the work on the website (with
Tim Kearsey) which is now something to be proud of. Thanks Mike.
2) A Thank you, from Simpsons Special Care Babies
We have just received an email thanking us for our donation raised from
last years lectures in memory of Sarah Cudworth to the Simpsons Special Care
Babies charity.
"Dear Mike Snook,
SSCB recently received a kind gift from the Jacobites Mountaineering club of
£100 gifted in memory of Sarah Jane Cudworth and I write to simply thank
everyone who contributed towards this donation. We are very grateful for
your support at a very sad time.
Yours sincerely, Gill Mitchell, Secretary"
3) Inver BBQ and Work Meet Sat 12th / Sun 13th
May
Free
Lunch!!!
Free Accommodation!!!!
After the lull in
activity last year we need to get Inver Spick and Span again.
There are a number of tasks to be
completed -- both skilled and unskilled hands required:
Part of the byre roof is in dire need of re-slating ~ 6 to 8
people for the two days
- End walls of the sleeping area require insulating to stop the
condensation ruining the new mattresses ~ 2 people days (pd)
- Need to install a manhole cover in the gas bottle area and also
establish a hard standing (paving slabs) for the gas bottles 2 pd
- Improve the path immediately outside of Inver – more paving slabs 2
people days (pd)
- All the white paintwork is in need of a coat of anti fungal
emulsion paint ~ 4 to 6 pd
- The water system is in need of it's annual maintenance ~ 2 pd
- Fire place in need of slates re-cementing in place ~ 1/4 pd
- Roof guttering repairs ~ 1 pd
- Byre insulation ~ 4 pd
- Byre door replacement ~1 pd
- Byre window and shutter ~ 2 pd
- Kitchen door from entrance and drying room doors to
be made to close properly 1 pd
- Stair emergency exit door drafty at bottom also check door
integrity – rot at bottom 1 pd
- Kitchen drawer front replacement 1/8 pd
- Snug window sealing – cement!! 1/8
- Cupboard spring cleans – throwing out cracked crocks, glasses etc
2pd
That is ~38 people days of effort required, the more people the less
work each, so come on join the fun
Please let us know if you are available to help out – email Mike
Snook / president if you’re up for it!!
Lunches
will be provided – as long as you tell us that you are coming along
4) Upcoming Meets
Low Gillerthwait Field Centre, West Lakes 20 to 22nd
April:
Ballot 12th
April
This meet is in response to a number of
requests over the last few years for a meet in the western lake district. The
Low Gillerthwaite Field Centre is in the Ennerdale valley, so provides easy
access to Loweswater and Buttermere as well as Wasdale and Eskdale. Directions
can be found at http://www.lgfc.org.uk/Contacts-Directions.htm.
Post code CA23 3AX - Grid ref. NY139141.
Climbing
opportunities include Pillar in Ennerdale itself, and numerous places, high and
low, in Wasdale and Eskdale. Gable and Scafell are the two main mountain crag
areas. The centre has a large kitchen, and sleeps up to 40, so there may well
be other groups in as well as us, although we will have two of the dormitories
to ourselves. You get a waterproof matress and a pilllow, but you need to bring
your own sleeping bag. Further details of the facilities can be found at http://www.lgfc.org.uk/About-Premises.htm.
At present we have 18 places, but may be able
to extend the booking if we are over-subscribed. The cost will be £14 per night.
Inverie Hostel, Knoydart Fri 4th to Mon 7th May: 10 places still available
This
is a 3-night meet, and you will need to take both Friday and Monday off if you
intend to use the normal sailings operated by Bruce Watt Cruises. We will look
in to charters at other times if there is enough demand. Ros will do this when
she gets back from France, w/c 16th April.
The
hostel in Inverie has been reserved for the Friday, saturday and Sunday nights
- there are boats on Friday and Monday from Mallaig but not Saturday and
Sunday. The bunkhouse details are given at http://www.knoydart-foundation.com/visit-us/foundation-bunkhouse/. It has bunks and mattresses but you
need to bring a sleeping bag. There is a small shop in Inverie for the odd
small item, but we need to take food in on the boat. There are supermarkets in
Mallaig. It's a good idea to arrange small groups for cooking beforehand as you
need to plan it! Inverie also has a pub - the remotest inn in the country. It
does good food and good beer, but it's not cheap!
There are 25 places on this trip, and we need
to fill all of them to recoup the costs, which will be set at £14 per night. Priority is given to
those who wish to attend for all three nights up to 2230 on Thursday 26th
April. thereafter you can join the meet for a smaller number of nights if
places remain.
5) Journal 2011
More articles are required for
the 2011 Club Journal; Walter would like to publish at the end of April so get
your skates on!!!
6) Tuesday Evening Climbing Meets Calendar
7) WALKS -
WEDNESDAY EVENINGS - 16 May
to 1 August, 2012
§ Let Alan Walker know, to include you on EMAIL LIST for
meet-sheets for parking and MAP of walk.
§ Arrange transport independently or through Alan, alanrwalker@blueyonder.co.uk; 0131 466 0255 or 077 538
246 59. Alan can usually provide lifts for 3 or
4 people: meet him at home at 6.00pm, 42 Comiston Drive, EH10 5QR, on buses 5,
11, 15 or 16 going out of town, first right past South Morningside School and
cornershop “Margiotta”, 200m along the Drive.
§ Meeting points are parking for the hill - map references
below. To meet at parking, calculate on people leaving central Edinburgh at
6.00pm.
· 16 May: Broughton
Heights, GREEN LAW, meet at Broughton Place (turn left just before Broughton
village, go to end of road next to isolated house, not the big mansion/art
gallery) map 72; NT120375
· 23 May: Pentland Hills:
SCALD LAW via West Kip, meet at Nine Mile Burn. Map 66; NT176576.
· 30 May: Culter Hills,
CULTER FELL, from Holms Water Glen, meet at parking just before Glenkirk house
at end of tarmac road. Map 72; NS 079295
· 6 June: Pentland Hills,
WEST CAIRN HILL: meet at Baddingsgill Farm, via West Linton. Map 65; NT126547
· 13 June: Glensax,
HUNDLESHOPE HEIGHTS, meet at end of yellow road at south edge of Peebles,
Kingsmuir area, towards Whitehaugh Farm. Map 73; NT259393.
· 19 June TUESDAY for Midsummer Social,
BENARTY HILL, meet at car park of Vane Farm Nature Reserve by Loch Leven. Map
58; NT158988. Then for club barbeque go to crags at Hawkcraig Point, Aberdour;
drive along road to end of Point, (bring disposable barbeque and food).
· 27 June: GULLANE BEACH
walk (cragging / swimming optional), meet at carpark for Gullane Bents,
signposted from Gullane as A198 passes through the town, Map 66, NT476832.
· 4 July: Glen Sax via
Peebles: KIRKHOPELAW, meet at end of yellow road at south edge of Peebles,
Kingsmuir area, towards Whitehaugh Farm. Map 73; NT259393.
· 11 July: Moorfoot Hills,
DUNDRIECH: meet at Westloch off A703 road to Peebles, by side of road at start
of access to Portmore Loch. Map 73; NT256515
· 18 July: Broughton
Hills, TRAHENNA HILL, meet at Broughton Place (turn left just before Broughton
village, go to end of road next to isolated house, not the big mansion/art gallery)
map 72; NT120375
· 25 July: TINTO HILL:
meet at carpark by Fallburn, via Symington. Map 72; NS965374
· 1 August: Pentland
Hills, THE MOUNT, from Carlops. Meet at carpark marked at south end of village,
under the crag. Map 65; NT161559
8) Annual Dinner
Guy has done a sterling job at
organising this years Annual dinner, which will be held in Newtonmore, on
Saturday the 6th of October 2012, more details in the next news
letter
9) Discount roundup
Over the last few months we have
managed to secure some discounts for members all year round and have been
invited to some discount evenings:
All year round discounts available at:
·
Cotswolds, all shops and On-line 15% produce Jacobites membership card and
quote the discount code – available from any Jacobites committee member.
·
Active outdoors, Aviemore 10% discount on
Coffee’s, food and kit, ask for Mountaineering Club discount it’s the MCofS
discount of which we are all members of through the Jacobites affiliation fees.
·
Nevis Sport, Edinburgh 10% discount on production of your Jacobites membership
card.
·
Balanced Physiotherapy 10% discount on production of a discount card – see Mike
Snook for your free 10% discount card
One off discount evenings:
Tiso 24th April &
1st May, 18:00 to 20:00,
10 to 15% discount
