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Members Events and information
The events detailed within this section are for members only.
They cover a wider range of walking areas than our guided
walks for the general public.
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About Members
Events
FDR has a history and culture of coach excursions, weekend
short breaks and week long holidays. These date back to when
our organisation was founded in 1980 and the DalesRail fully
integrated town and bus service, operated only on summer weekends
once a month. These were to hold the membership together and
provide the opportunity for collective walking as a group.
Coach excursions were scheduled as once per month events in
winter and in the summer, once per month on a weekend when
DalesRail did not operate.
When the Settle/Carlisle line was finally reprieved from
closure in 1989 and a regular year round passenger service
was established, we saw no reason why activities which had
given so much pleasure to members and had transported them
to areas not accessible by train, should be suspended. The
programme of events was merely adjusted to avoid a clash of
activities. Regretfully, for administrative and logistical
purposes, these elements of our events have to be restricted
to members of the organisation.
The coach trips, which were held monthly on Sundays, covered
almost anywhere within a 2 hour coach trip of Leeds. We regularly
visited areas such as the North Pennines, the Lake District,
Derbyshire, Lancashire and the North York Moors and Coast.
The weekend and longer holiday trips use either hotel or
youth hostel accommodation and have previously included visits
to Scotland, Wales and Ireland. There will normally be at
least three grades of walk put on each day. Details of future
trips can be found in the Holidays
section.
Other forthcoming trips and activities are listed below -
you can also find detailed information in the Past
Events section.
Thursday
Midweek Walks
for members only
First Thursday of each month
One walk only - 10/12 miles - moderate
ALL MEET AT 10.00 AM unless
otherwise stated
2019
| 3 October 2019 |
Micklefield Circular
Meeting point Micklefield Railway Station
SE 444 327 |
| 7 November 2019 |
Shipley Circular
Meeting point Shipley Railway Station |
| 5 December 2019 |
Ilkley Circular
Meeting point Ilkley Railway Station |
Please
telephone Lynn Saleh on 01274 724888 for further details
Lake
District Walks
for members only
2019
Unless otherwise stipulated
by the walk leader, the car share meeting
place will be at Gargrave Car Park at 8.00 am
If you wish to join the car share at Giggleswick station
at 8.15 am, please contact the walk leader in advance
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DATE
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ROUTE
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START POINT
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GRADE
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Saturday
21 September |
Roman
High Street
approx. 30 kms |
*** Updated
Details ***
Drive to Oxenholme, train to Penrith, minibus
to Askham. Train back from Windermere. Please
contact Tony Smare at tony.smare@btinternet.com
for more information regarding transport and
to book a place on the minibus.
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Strenuous |
Wednesday
23 October 2019 |
Troutbeck
Circular:
Limefitt, Hagg Gill, Ill Bell, Froswick, Thornthwaite
Beacon, Stony Cove Pike |
Troutbeck,
Church bridge |
Strenuous |
Please
telephone Merrilyn Hall on 07807 200 517 for further details
Other
Events
for members only
2019
| Sunday
24 November 2019 |
Annual General Meeting
at the Black Horse Hotel,
Skipton
Further details will be in the October
2019 Newsletter
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Please see the members'
Newsletter or
Telephone
Diane Taylor on 0113 293 1924 for further details
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