MINUTES
OF THE
UPPERWARD MOUNTAINEERING
CLUB
Held
at The
Woodpecker, Lanark,
11th February 2009
APOLOGIES:
Ivan Strachan,
John MacMillan, Annie Bell, John Gordon, Ronnie Arnott, Winnie Rough,
John Hackett.
MINUTES OF
PREVIOUS MEETING:
Amend
two Ice Axes to three and include Shovel
, Proposed
Bria
n McDonald
, Seconded
Jim Wilson
.
MATERS ARISING:
Donations
to Mountain Rescue of £300 has been presented and cashed.
Three Ice axes purchased and added to club inventory of equipment.
PRESIDENT REPORT:
Summary
of the last Year:- Well what
can I say about the walks?
We had the usual pre-meets,
we met up on the Sundays,
We drove to the hills, We climbed the hills.
As
Nick would say, just more rocks and grass.
We came back down and had a wee refreshment, So not a lot
different from previous years.
But it wasn’t just that, it
was the year of El Presidente del Sol, I’m not going to go into
details about each walk, but when was the last time we had four stunning
days on Skye??? Even at the Burns’ Supper walk, Pauline had to ask me
to stand out of the rays!
Now,
I’m not going to go overboard on this because I was ably helped by a
new club member when Pauline joined.
Her first walk
was down the borders and it really pissed all day, but then all turned
to light, I became President and Linda joined us, so it’s been
a combination of El Presidente del Sol and Linda.
What
were the highlights?
Shiehallion, plenty of snow to cover the boulder field, plenty of sun a
great day.
Skye, as I’ve said before four days of sunshine, well ????
The Family Day, amongst a batch of real bad weather, the Sunday we went
was brilliant, we couldn’t have got better.
Coulter Fell, New Year’s Day, over 30 on top of the hill, brilliant
sunshine, I’ll say no more.
The Burns’ Weekend, I’ve already mentioned about the walk, but the
night was really the best, every year it gets better and this wasn’t
an exception, my thanks to all who took part, a few special mentions:
Neils, who knew he was sort of rock star!! And for his toast to the
lassies.
Phil, in Mary’s night dress, that’s a scary vision which will haunt
me for a long time.
Everybody who helped in Tam O’shanter, what a hoot that was, I’ll
never forget the vision of Wee Nick up on Mungo’s back, the mind
shudders, then the girls in panto garb as the witches, they can scare me
anytime!!
Margaret, for a very witty reply from the lassies.
My older, yes much older brother, Charlie for the immortal Memory.
And
also Mungo as ever in superb form
.
But especially to the folk who worked tirelessly throughout the
afternoon and night, so a big, big hand for Brian, Marguerite and Davy.
Well
that’s it.
John
Harris
President
TREASURERS
REPORT:
The
balance sheet was passed round showing a balance in the current account
of £904.00. The club made a
modest profit of £14.23, but this included a £300 donation to Mountain
Rescue.
The
present annual fee to the MCof S is £13, but this was agreed still very
worthwhile due to the ever increasing work that MCofS carry out on our
behalf and also the excellent magazine Mountaineer posted to all members
It
was pointed out that the loss incurred for the Glenshee weekend was
mainly due to the payment had to include breakfast; however a profit was
made overall on the club weekends.
It
was suggested that the clubs funds should be increased to the £900 mark
instead of the £600 previously agreed.
This is to take into account increased bunkhouse charges in
general.
Present
number of fully paid members is 32
The
club accounts were proposed
John Harris
and Seconded by David Miller
SECRETARY’S
REPORT:
Marguerite
welcomed everyone to the meeting.
Thanks
were extended to everyone for once again contributing in making our year
a great success. In
particular our President John for his involvement and input throughout
the year.
Davy
once more taking care of our finances and thanks to his services too for
the monthly newspapers reports.
Our
equipment co-ordinator Billy as usual kept the clubs equipment in good
order.
Ronnie
has the unenviable task of bookings convener but handled all proceedings
with care and attention.
A
special thanks again to John and Winnie for their hospitality at New
Year, a great evening borne out by the majority of members and friends
staying well into the morning.
Ivan
and Jim once more did a grand job auditing our books and agreed to do
this again for next year.
Our
website is now up and running due to John's IT skills, everyone to
advise him of any input they would like to see included,
Finally
a vote of thanks to the Woodpecker staff for taking care of us at our
pre meets and especially the annual supply of ‘club’ sandwiches.
It
is the clubs 35th anniversary and the usual inaugural walk
will be organised and hopefully a few other events to mark this prestige
occasion. to be discussed further later.
ELECTION OF OFFICE
BEARERS AND COMMITTEE:
POSITION
NAME
PROPOSED
SECONDED
President
Mungo Hamilton
John Harris
Brian
Vice
President
Ronnie Arnott
Billy Stonebanks
John Harris
Secretary
Marguerite
John Harris
David Miller
Treasurer
Davy McLellan
John Harris
Nick
Booking
Convnr
Ronnie Arnott
Marguerite
Brian
Equip.
Co-ord.
Billy Stonebanks
John Harris
David Wright
Committee
Nick Nicol
Marguerite
Georgie
Jim Wilson
John Harris
David
Phil Roseburgh
John Harris
Billy
John Harris
Jimmy Johnston
Marguerite
David Wright
John Harris
Brian
Linda Hunter
Davy
John Harris
WALKS
2009/2010
Skye
(2010)
- Ullapool
- Braemar
- Glensheil
- Loch
Mullardoch -
Aonach Eagach
- Ben
a’ Bheithir -
Bidean nam Bian
- Buchaile
-
Ireland
-
Stob Ghabhair
- Ben
an Lochan -
Lake District
-
Arrocher Alps
- Luss
Hill -
Family Day
- Cycling
Day -
Scambling.
BOOKING
CONVENOR:
Ronnie
advised that the organising etc., all ran smoothly over the last year
and did not see any reason to increase the weekend rate.
In general all weekends were well attended.
EQUIPMENT CO-ORDINATOR:
The
club’s equipment has been well used in the past year, but no
replacements are necessary and are in good order.
35th ANNIVERSARY:
A
discussion between the members in regards our forthcoming 35th
anniversary. The inaugural
walk would again take place and it was agreed to arrange this for July
in view of the unpredictable weather in February.
Other ideas were forthcoming as in a Ceilidh, quiz night and the
making of a club calendar, club logo.
The committee to discuss at their next meeting.
A O C B:
Website:
John
talked about the clubs website which is up and running.
He will be looking for members contributions as in stories,
events or photographs. The
website address is www.upperwardmc.co.uk
Boots
Across
Scotland
:
Marguerite
advised that the previous charity that the club regularly donated to was
now no longer in operation and is now relaunched as Mountain Aid and
gave some background history.
They
are running two events which the members might care to assist in as in
the Caledonian Challenge and High Tea on the top of
Ben Nevis
. Anyone interested to
contact her.
Membership
update
Davy
asked if there were any changes required to the membership list to
advise him in particular E mail address and any changes to the telephone
numbers etc.,
Dav
y also offered his services to help and encourage novice members as he
is taking a small group walking.
He also wished to express his thanks for the support in his
recent bout of ill health.
There
being no further business the meeting was closed at 9.20
Marguerite
Robertson
SECRETARY
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