Alan Blackburn and my self decided to make the long drive to Skye for the Bank Holiday weekend. Contrary to popular belief Al's reputation for attracting bad weather is a myth. We enjoyed three days of wall to wall blue skies and sunshine. There was even a cool easterly to keep the midges away....

Once again we attempted to master Whinlatter Forest. Unfortunately there aren’t too many options open due to felling and scrubby impenetrable new growth so essentially I recycled last year’s course into a score type event. This is a “find-as-many-as-you-can-in-a-given-time” type of event with severe penalties for being late back. I expected that some would not return within the allotted 60 minutes and incur penalty points (10 points per control but minus 5 points for each minute late). 16 controls meant that 160 points were up for grabs and being 32 minutes late would wipe out the score to give 0. Canny b****** FMC members – no one was late! They learn fast!

Margaret Scott has donated a copy of the Fylde Mountaineering Club Journal 1956 – 1958 that had belonged to her father Jack Jowett to the club to be preserved in the Archives. It is an interesting read. I tried scanning it but it was not all that good so I have photographed each of the 45 pages.

The full Journal can be viewed in the photo gallery by clicking on the above cover image.