25th Anniversary Year (now migrated)

AW edit, February 2017: This page has now been removed as a main menu item. All details have been migrated to the 2013-14 trip book page here. A 30th Anniversary Year page will follow at some point in mid-late 2017 or early 2018.

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Final update (4 October 2014)

With the start of a new academic year, CUHWC's Twenty-fifth Anniversary Year draws to a close. We hope everyone who participated in any of the events enjoyed themselves and the hills with friends old and new. The event pages will now be left in a (more or less) final state to provide a record of the year - and to provide the 30th Anniversary committee with some ideas! See you again in 2019.

Introduction

In 2014, Cambridge University Hillwalking Club celebrated twenty-five years with its silver anniversary. Members of the club in its early days (and those who have read about how it all started) will know that it came into being rather gradually, and so, rather than pinpoint a specific birthday, we decided to spread the celebrations over an entire academic year, running from October 2013 to September 2014. The main event, as in previous anniversary years, was a black-tie dinner and weekend in the Lake District, in February 2014.

This page and those linked from it are intended to serve as a source of information about the events organised, a starting point for both current members and duffers to get involved in numerous ways, and a place to follow events and share photos as they happened and afterwards. Please take a look around!

Best wishes,

Dave Farrow, Jo Smith and Michael Fordham
The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Year team

Anniversary Dinner and weekend meet - Langdale, 21-23 February 2014

The flagship event of the year, combining a black-tie dinner with opportunities for hillwalking in the heart of the Lake District. We returned to Langdale (High Close) YHA, the location of the Twentieth Anniversary Dinner, with nearly 100 new, existing and old members. The somewhat wet weather failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the attendees: hills were climbed, a wonderful dinner eaten, vast quantities of alcohol drunk, songs sung, willows stripped, mascots chased and a fantastic time had by all.

Here is a photograph of the group taken just before dinner:

Further group photographs taken by Toby can be found at this link.

Photo albums from some of the event attendees can be found by clicking the following links:

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Journal

After some fantastic submissions for the Twentieth Anniversary Journal, the plan was to produce one this time around that was bigger, better and not just run off by the nice reprographics lady at Michael's school.

Members past and present rose to the occasion and produced some wonderful material, which was skilfully assembled and edited by Michael, Sarah and Bethan. The journal was distributed to all who pre-ordered a copy at the Anniversary Dinner in February.

Although we would like to make the journal available online, transforming the material into a suitable format is a large and time-consuming job and so there are currently no plans to do this. However, there are still some hard copies available for purchase at £3 plus postage (free if you can pick it up from Cambridge) so if you would like one please just get in touch.

Silver Hills

25 memorable hills from 25 years: your stories published in the Anniversary Journal

Following a great suggestion from Bethan Gudgeon (Social Secretary 2010), we have gathered stories from club members across the years to form a collection of 25 classic "Silver Hills", published with pictures and route descriptions in the Anniversary Journal.

From the best day out in Britain's mountains to memorable scrambles, afternoon strolls, epics, the most exciting hills for kids, they all come with a personal story.

Many thanks to all those who have contributed!

25th Anniversary T-shirt

We have produced a Twenty-fifth Anniversary T-shirt, if nothing else to add another collectable to the growing assortment of CUHWC T-shirts! If you didn't get your hands on one at the Anniversary Dinner, the club is organising a second order - contact the social sec if you'd like one.

Here is the design: