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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
| 7 March 2019 |
Settle Circular
Meeting point Settle Railway Station
- NOTE 10.30 AM START |
| 4 April 2019 |
Greenfield Circular
Meeting point Greenfield Railway Station |
| 9 May 2019 |
Ripley Circular
Meeting point Ripley free car park |
| 6 June 2019 |
Hebden Bridge Circular
Meeting point Hebden Bridge Railway Station |
| 11 July 2019 |
Knaresborough Circular
Meeting point Knaresborough Railway Station |
| 1 August 2019 |
Marsden Circular
Meeting point Marsden Railway Station |
| 5 September 2019 |
Todmorden Circular
Meeting point Todmorden Railway Station |
| 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
MEET AT GIGGLESWICK STATION CAR PARK AT
8.15 AM UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
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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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Thursday
25 April |
Lingmoor
Fell, Little Langdale |
Walthwaite
Bottom car park. Grid ref 329051 |
Moderate/Strenuous |
Wednesday
8 May |
Bow
Fell and Rossett Pike |
Old
Dungeon Ghyll, Great Langdale |
Strenuous |
Friday
7 June |
Eskdale:
Hardknott Pass, Border End, Harter Fell, Green
Crag |
Hardknott
Pass. Grid ref 232015 |
Strenuous |
Monday
17 June |
Low
Pike, High Pike, Scandale Pass, Red Screes |
Ambleside,
Rydal Rd car park |
Moderate/Strenuous |
Thursday
18 July |
Helm
Crag, Gibson Knott, Calf Crag, Sergeant Man |
Grasmere |
Strenuous |
Wednesday
7 August |
Coniston
Circular
via Wetherlam |
Copper
mines road, Coniston |
Moderate/Strenuous |
Thursday
22 August |
Elterwater,
Skelwith Bridge, Black Fell, Holme Fell, Lingmoor
Fell |
Walthwaite Bottom car park. Grid ref 329051 |
Strenuous |
Saturday
21 September |
Roman
High Street
approx. 30 kms |
Early
S/C train to Langwathby, then private bus to Askham
for start of walk to Windermere for transport
home. (Awaiting timetables to plan exact return
details. Halfway and bad weather escapes identified.) |
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
| Monday
11 March 2019 |
Leaders
and Backups Meeting
The Grove public house, Leeds
7.30 pm |
| Sunday
24 November 2019 |
Annual General Meeting
Venue details to be confirmed
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Please see the members'
Newsletter or
Telephone
Diane Taylor on 0113 293 1924 for further details
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