University of Bristol Mountaineering Club

19-21 October 2001

The Roaches

In typical roaches style, it was notably wet for pretty much all of the weekend! Although a few people managed to climb some very wet and slimey routes on Sunday before getting utterly rained on. (Even Alison's ingenious umbrella attachment didn't keep her dry whilst climbing!) However the main success of the weekend was beating all the other university teams at the boat race on Saturday night.We were the only uni to put forward both an A and B team and contrary to Imperial's claim we totally thrashed them! We then proceeded to thrash them again at the "Weir Challenge" before they all decided it would be a good idea to just start randomly running through the river: not terribly bright those chaps!
Obviously there were no photos taken due to the drippy nature of the trip, but please send me some more comments if you have them.
Love from Spen

Well what can be said! It was the first trip of the year and so was bound to rain in true fashion so absoluely no climbing was done - we were not let down!. We did however get to visit sheffield with a certain bus driver getting lost on numerous ocassions and I did nearly die of hyperthermia at the top of the one and only route wich was completed before it decided to piss it down on us. I think I can speak for everyone that a good weekend was had all round.
from Louise