Category: Weekend Trip
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End Of Year Trip 31/5/2025 – 2/6/2025
Our final British trip of the year took us camping to the Banana field on the shores of Coniston water in the English lake district. After navigating the Friday morning traffic out of Newcastle a large contingent headed for the Kirkstone pass, whilst the rest of us had work to do in Newcastle and would…
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Glencoe 28-30/3/2025
We left the good weather in Newcastle as we headed north to Glencoe on Friday night to find a couple of members who had explored some of the Mamores that day in Onich church hall where we were staying. Due to the high wind forecast for later in the day we made an early start…
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Glen Prosen 7-9/2/2025
A wonderful, wintery weekend began with the drive north from Newcastle to Glen Prosen hostel, located in the Angus glens, with a customary stop at Dalkeith for a takeaway as well as stocking up on supplies for the weekend. Saturday morning dawned and we awoke to a faint sprinkling of snow in the glen. After…
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Winter Skills 17-19/1/2025
A brilliant way to start the new term with some wonderful sunny weather in the Cairngorms despite the patchy snow skills were learned and big hills were walked. Leaving in the sunset on Friday night we headed for Aviemore driving past murmurations of starlings next to the A1. we made good time arriving at Glenbeg…
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Eryri weekend trip 30/11/24 – 1/12/2024
After negotiating the heavy Newcastle traffic and enjoying a stop at Asda in Morley we arrived at Bens Bunkhouse near Llanberis late Friday evening and settled in nicely before going to bed. Waking up Saturday we set out into the wind and rain up Elidir Fawr (923m) before dropping back down out of the cloud…
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Crianlarich weekend trip 8-10/11/2024
A morning start was taken at the end of reading week so that a walk could be undertaken on the way up to Crianlarch although not everyone remembered this was the case but after some quick packing from Oskar we all set off. Arriving at the foot of Loch Lubnaig for lunch we then set…
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Western Lake District weekend trip 11-13/10/2024
Leaving Newcastle and driving into the beautiful sunset was the perfect start to the first weekend trip of the year. We arrived at Felldyke bunkhouse safely in time for some card games despite Markos deciding to test the brakes in the carpark as well as successfully collecting Harry who had managed to escape beautiful Barrow…
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Aragon Pyrenees 22-28 June 2024
A week of brilliant weather exploring the Aragon Pyrenees based 3km north of Benasque at Camping Aneto named after the tallest mountain in the Pyrenees, Pico Aneto which rises from its glacier, which along with all Pyrenean glaciers is rapidly shrinking, at the eastern end of the Maladeta massif. After arriving in the sunny Benasque…
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EOYT 31/5/24 – 3/6/24
Great trip camping in Banana field on Lake Coniston. To celebrate a wonderful year. Short walk up Stony Cove Pike from Kirkstone pass on Friday. Nice walk up the south rake of Dow Crags and then round to Old Man of Coniston and down via Swirl How on Saturday and a nice day kayaking on…
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Snowdonia/Eryri 22 – 24/3/2024
A fun relaxing weekend in Eryri (Snowdonia) national park staying in Ffridd bunkhouse between the coastal town of Harlech and the Rhinogydd mountains. Setting off on Friday night the long drive to the bunkhouse was interrupted by a stop at Asda in Morley where some members sampled the local Chinese restaurant before the vans continued…
Newcastle University Fellwalking Society 