YORKSHIRE RAMBLER THE YORKSHIRE RAMBLERS CLUB YRC BULLETIN Issue 23 Summer 2005 Articles
Sanity ...... 5 Roy Denney
Yesterdays Men ...... 7 David Laughton
Turkey- 40 Years On ...... 8 George Spenceley
Straddlebugs ...... 10 David Smith A Long Road ...... 11 Roy Denney
Yosemite ...... 15 Alan Linford
Orienteering ...... 16 Roy Denney
Sudetenland ...... 18 Mike Smith
Chile- Paine Circuit ...... 21 Stuart Dix
China update ...... 25 Ged Campion
North York Moors ...... 26
The Good Old Days ...... 35 Derek Smithson
A Rhum Tale ...... 37 Albert Chapman
Nidderdale ...... 39 Jeffrey Hooper THE MATTERHORN - F David Smith The Yorkshire Ramblers Club
Established 1892
A mountaineering and caving club
Club Member of The British Mountaineering Council
Secretary - Gordon Humphreys, Mountbegon, Hornby, Lancashire LA2 8JZ
Editor - Roy Denney, 33 Clovelly Road, Glenfield, Leicestershire LE3 8AE
The opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the YRC or its Officers. ‘The Rambler’ is both a journal of the activities BULLETIN 23 - SUMMER 2005 and proceedings of the club and a source of articles on a range of subjects provided largely by the membership. It also acts as a newsletter. CONTENTS We welcome articles on climbs, caving exploits, skiing, sailing, expeditions; natural history, folklore, archaeology and other similar subjects.
Material is also welcome on informal meets, Page private trips and any similar pursuits, ranging from full blown articles to small items to go in a 4 ‘Editorial’ section of chippings. We welcome poems and 5 Sanity Roy Denney photographs or drawings which need not 7 Yesterdays Men - necessarily be accompanied by any article. Tempest Anderson David Laughton
However articles are always of more interest if 8 Turkey George Spenceley accompanied by photographs and maps or 10 Straddlebugs David Smith drawings showing locations. 11 Long Road Roy Denney 15 Yosemite Alan Linford Roy J Denney, Editor 16 Orienteering Roy Denney 18 Sudetenland Mike Smith MOUNTAIN QUEST 21 Don’t Worry Gov David Smith 21 Paine Circuit, Chile Stuart Dix The following is the grid from the last journal 25 Expedition Update Ged Campion and unused letters have been removed. 26 North York Moors