Year of publication 1990 - Fell and Rock Climbing Club

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24 THE BOTHY ON THE SHOREThen you see more low buildings like the bothy, a few lived in, withcattle grazing around, but most roofless and derelict. One percheshalfway up the northern headland on the way to the Old Man. Theformer school is now a simple hostel - another reason why we needn'thave carried the tent. We beachcombed, found some fairly sound cliffbeyond the houses, and realised that it was now only raining in thesqualls. For supper we had a feast - salmon from the River Coe,Cynthia's first new potatoes, then fresh raspberries - while hundreds ofterns gathered to wheel and soar over the beach.Gulls, not terns, woke us early. Squalls still arrived but the sky wasbright so, more in hope than expectation, we set off up the muddy cliffpath. The Old Man is indeed a strange sight when he appears acrossundulating heather, only to reveal his full stature from the very edge ofthe cliffs. An on-shore gale threatened to blow us back to the bothy sowe quickly slithered down to the base of the stack, thankful that the eastface route takes the sheltered side. Never have I rock-climbed, in somany clothes - polar jacket, Goretex cag, the lot. So much for 1stAugust! Our only spectators were a puffin on the basalt base and a bigseal swimming beneath it.The East Face of the Old Man is not a great climb because the rockbehaves as you would expect of red sandstone, especially on the secondpitch. Instead of climbing naturally you have to be very careful, tryingalways to press instead of pull on the holds. There was a lot of gear insitu,including a very thick fixed rope to retrieve yourself from the freeabseil; it was all surprisingly good and looked American. Not only ourtent but also our spare rope and most of our rack turned out to besuperfluous: we should have brought binoculars and a bottle of wineinstead. The climbing didn't compare with the three-star routes we'vedone in the Lakes this year. Only one late-deveioper of a fulmar chickstill occupied a nest and no bird came near us. Are we the only team notto have been attacked by skuas? The last pitch was the most enjoyable, asteep, clean corner crack on better rock, with the wind whistlingthrough. We stood on the summit, swaying in the gale like loosechimney pots, and Cynthia, now a connoisseur of sea stacks, said shewas glad we'd done it but she wouldn't bother again . . . the Old Man ofStoer is a much better climb. I wished a ship would come past; there wasnobody to wave to, unless you count a colony of eider ducks on a tidalpool.It turned out later that some walkers had watched us abseil off andhad been amazed that we had climbed the Old Man while they couldhardly stand up on the cliffs. Quite a few people visited us in the bothybecause they were interested (or curious). Wc could hardlv believe that
Burnmouth Cottage: 'The Bothy onPhotograph by Angela Soper.Shore' Cynthia Grindley outside.our luck had held and we had done the climb already. The wind easedbut the sea stayed lively. I wandered about at dusk looking for otters inthe burn but only saw a baby seal trapped in a rock pool until the tidecame in. The terns again put on the main show of the evening. Cynthiaand I watched it for a while. Eventually we snuggled down with thebothy door open as the oyster-catchers took over the stage.
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126 THE MEET REPORTAlter half an ho
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THE LIBRARYGeorge WatkinsWhen 1 suc
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IN MEMORIAMF. Alcock 1947-1989W. Be
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132 IN MEMORIAMwhich took him into
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134 IN MEMORIAMRoman Wall. Indeed,
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136 INMEMORIAMMozart's "Ave Verum"
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138 INMEMORIAMthree volumes, as it
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140 IN MEMORIAMhis numerous article
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142 TN MEMORIAMFRANCES RONA WALLACE
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144 IN MEMORIAMexceptional degree o
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