Hanliensian Rambling Club

Holidays

The club usually arranges at least one walking holiday each year. Brief details of recent years' trips are shown below to entice future and remind past participants.

A list of pastYHA weekends is given below.

2008	Four holidays	Symonds Yat	Keswick with French	Yorkshire Dales Long Walk	Seefeld and Ellmau
		Over 50 members spent 5 days at the Paddocks Hotel, walking in the Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley.	A week's holiday, hosting our French friends from La Randonnee Céretane, based in Keswick and walking in a variety of locations in the Lake District.	Five days walking between hostels in the the Yorkshire Dales in July. The walks took us over Pendle Hill and then from Malham to Kettlewell to Thoralby to Hawes. The last day combined a 7 mile walk from Hawes to Garsdale Head, train to Settle and 7 miles walk to Malham	A wonderful holiday for 53 members, first walking in the limestone mountains around Seefeld and the Lautasch Valley followed by a week in Ellmau walking in the Wilder Kaiser range and the gentler slopes to the south

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2007	Three holidays	Llandudno	Snowdonia Long Walk	Céret, France
		70 or more braved a wild, wet and windy 5-day holiday at the Queen's Hotel at Llandudno	Four or five days walking between hostels in the mountains of Snowdonia in July.	The holiday in two hotels in Céret in the south of France, near the Pyrenees in September was a great success. The local walking group arranged a wonderful itinerary of walks and events. See example of photos on Google, taken at the reception by Jean Porqueres. French Reception

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2006	Four holidays	Patterdale	California	Lake District Long Walk	Alnmouth
		Another large party , including some friends from France, had a good week's holiday in the Lake District in April 2006, staying at the Patterdale Hotel.	San Francisco, Yosemite National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, great walking and sightseeing in a variety of landscapes.	Slightly shorter routes than last year but made difficult by the very high temperatures throughout the holiday. Expect something similar to be arranged for next year.	We filled the HF hotel at Almouth for a guided walking holiday in late September and early October

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2005	Four holidays	Patterdale	Lake District Long Walk	Italy	Croyde Bay
		More than seventy members braved the weather in the Lake District for a week in March 2005, staying at the Patterdale Hotel.	Four days of good weather allowed 4 great ridge routes but the last day's rain kept us at lower levels. Over 50 miles and 20,000 feet of climbing.	The holiday in August/September 2005 at Selva, Val di Gardena in the Dolomites was excellent. Walking at all levels was possible, using the gondolas and chairlifts among the spectacular limestone scenery dominated by the Sassolungo peaks. Some members moved on to spend a week at Malcesine on Lake Garda.	More than 40 members and 10 of our French friends spent a week at the Unison Holiday Village in Croyde Bay, North Devon at the end of October 2005. A and C walks took place every day on the coastal paths, the Tarka Trail and Exmoor and use was made of the swimming, table tennis and Petang facilities.. The weather improved from a rainy first day to warm sunshine later in the week.

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2004	Three holidays	Slovenia	Cumbria Way	Scarborough
		During May 2004 17 club members took a holiday in Slovenia, staying at Kranjska Gora in the Julian Alps for one week. The Karavanke and Julian Alps mountain ranges provided marvellous walking for all grades and abilities. 12 members of the party remained for a less strenuous second week at Portoroz on the coast.	A group of 25 completed this long distance walk through the Lake District, from Ulverston to Carlisle, over one week in July 2004.	More than forty members spent 4 nights at the Crown Hotel in Scarborough near the end of October. The food was excellent and the weather was kind to us while we walked in the North Yorkshire Moors or along coastal paths.

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2003	Two holidays	Madeira	France
		A group of more than twenty stayed just outside Funchal for a fortnight experiencing marvellous weather and completing some wonderful walks. The whole group stayed together to walk some of the famous levadas and then the stronger walkers climbed in the high mountains in the centre of the island	More than 40 of us went to stay in the troglodyte region near St-Etienne-Le-Chigny in the Loire Valley with our French friends from L'Aigle and Le Perche. We visited wonderful chateaux and beautiful towns and villages with gentle walks each day
2002	Majorca	34 club members were on this holiday - some for 14 days and some for 7 days, staying at the Pollensa Park Hotel in Puerto Pollensa. Despite some poor weather we managed to walk in the mountains of the North West of the island almost everyday, climbing Massanella, Tomir, Teix, La Rateda among others. Visits were made to Palma, Soller, Lluc, Pollensa and Valldermosa.
2001	Two holidays	Switzerland and France	France
		This was a composite holiday in which some people towed caravans and others hired caravans or tents when they were there and yet others flew there and stayed in a hotel. They stayed at Annecy in France before moving on to Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland.	This was our visit to Belleme in the Orne Perche region of France at the invitation of Les Marcheurs du Perche whom we had entertained at Edale the year before
1999	Czech and Slovak Republics	This was a repeat, with a larger group, of the successful holiday two years before.
1998	Bulgaria	This year we went to Borovets in the Rila mountains south of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Excellent guided walks were included and visits made to Sofia, Plovdiv, Samakov and the famous Rila Monastery.
1997	Czech and Slovak Republics	We stayed for a few days in Prague, the beautiful capital city of the Czech Republic before travelling by train to Nova Lesna in Slovakia. This village was a short distance from the wonderful High Tatra mountain range with easy access to many walks provided by the TEZ electric railway. Visits were made to the ancient and interesting towns of Levoca, Kosice and Kesmarok.
1996	Poland	This was a three centre holiday starting at Sopot, the premiere seaside resort on the Baltic coast, moving to Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and then to Zakapane, a town nestling at the foot of the Tatra mountains.
1995	Alnmouth	A week's holiday in Northumbria, walking along the coast and hills in this attractive area
1994	Selworthy	A wonderful week in the west country in the beautiful Vale of Porlock.

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Suggestions are always being made for future walking holidays and at the moment ideas include:

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Youth Hostel Breaks

Hostel	Date	Year
Capel Curig	11 - 13 March	1994
High Close	17 - 19 March	1995
Mankin Holes	1 - 3 March	1996
Malham	21 - 23 February	1997
Patterdale	31 October - 2 November	1997
Snowdon Ranger	6 - 8 March	1998
Kettlewell	9 - 11 October	1998
Coniston (Holly How)	19 - 21 March	1999
Osmotherly	8 - 10 October	1999
Longthwaite (Borrowdale)	3 - 5 March	2000
Brecon Beacons	13 - 15 October	2000
Llanberis	12 - 14 October	2001
Aysgarth Falls	22 - 24 March	2002
Crowden	11 - 12 May	2002
Dufton	11 - 13 October	2002
Grasmere (Butterlip How)	28 - 30 March	2003
Langsett	31 May - 1 June	2003
Llanbedr	3 - 5 October	2003
Ingleton	19 - 21 March	2004
Edale	17 - 18 July	2004
Kirkby Stephen	1 - 3 October	2004
Kings	15 - 17 April	2005
Clun	21 May	2005
Buttermere	7 - 9 October	2005
Grinton Lodge	3 - 5 March	2006
Clun	20 - 21 May	2006
Dent	13 - 15 October	2006
Bryn Gwynant	16 - 18 March	2007
Malham	12 - 13 May	2007
Ffynnon Wen	12 - 14 October	2007
Helmsley	18 - 20 April	2008
Wilderhope	17 - 18 May	2008
Slaidburn	17 - 19 Oct	2008

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