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DURC Photograph Collection

The Bens and the Glens
Club Activities
The People

The Bens and the Glens

Lyon
Glen Lyon
Affric
Glen Affric
Shee
Glen Shee
Lawers
Ben Lawers
More
Ben More
Liatach
Liatach
Shenevall
Shenevall
Ericht
Loch Ericht
Fee
Corrie Fee

Club Activities

The club's outdoor activities include walking, rock climbing and ice climbing plus occasional trips cross country skiing or caving. Social events include the Annual Dinner and Burn's Night with other ceilidhs through the year.

Climb
Rock climbing: a sea cliff near Aberdeen
Andrew Brooks
Summer walking: Skye ridge
Gillean
Winter walking: Sgurr nan Gillean
Ceilidh
Dancing at a ceilidh

The club maintains a bothy at Glas-Allt-Sheil near Lochnagar. It is at the rear of a lodge used by Prince Charles.

Bothy
The front of the lodge
Inside
Inside the bothy

A few years ago club members designed and built a new bridge in Torridon.

Bridge
The bridge
The university's civil engineering department has built other bridges in the area; have a look at some great photos from Beinn Eighe.

Trips Abroad

Members sometimes organise trips abroad during the summer; the 1996 destinations were arctic Norway and the French Alps.


The People

Phil
Phil traversing a table
Orchy
A bunch of faffers out on the hills
Burns
Burn's Night Supper

More Pictures

You want more? We've got lots more photos! Have a look at Will's photos and new photos, and Grumpy's photos, new photos. If you are a current or old member of the Rucksack Club there's also several tons of the things in Steve's Boudoir. If you don't know the password then mail me.


All photographs are © Copyright their respective authors.


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