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A Message From Your President
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Social Secretary
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CHA Book Club
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Saturday Secretary
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Keswick Weekend
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Bus Pass Changes
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Pennine Way 2011
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Sunday Rambles Sec.
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Letter from Kintyre
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Morecambe Bay Walk 5 Editors Message Garden Organic Trip Can You Lead a Walk Tenby Holiday
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Mr David Barker has informed the Committee that he is retiring from his role as accountant to Bradford CHA. Mr Barker and his wife Margaret have been active members of the club for many years. A floral arrangement was sent to Mr & Mrs Barker with our sincere thanks for all their support and good wishes for the future. Mr Ian Ainley was appointed accountant at the AGM on 21st April 2010. The Committee convey their gratitude to all those members who sent donations to the club. We have been overwhelmed at the response and thank each and everyone for their generosity. Many exciting walks are enticing us outdoors over the summer. We shall be visiting both the East Coast and the West Coast of Northern England. Come along and join us! Meryl Ward From the Membership Secretary Thanks and welcome to the new members who have joined us this year, and also thanks to existing members who have recently sent subscriptions in for the year 2010/2011. If you haven't already rejoined you‟ll find a reminder letter with this Newsletter and a self addressed envelope. Hope I hear from you soon. Jackie Hotchen
The Pennine Way and our club – a long relationship Most of the Pennine Way is in our club‟s stamping ground and as we approach the end of our Pennine Way project it is worth looking back at our relationship with Britain‟s first long distance footpath. The Pennine Way between Marsden to Hawes is easily accessible for day trips by public transport and even more of it is easily within range of our coach. Over the years we have done every section from Edale to Cross Fell in day trips. We do not visit the local sections between Marsden and Cowling so often these days as Metro fares and passes have made the coach uneconomic for these sections. We have walked the Yorkshire Dales and Teesdale sections dozens of times and the Derbyshire section fairly often. In June 1979, at the late Bernard Templeton‟s suggestion, we walked the 30 mile from Byrness to Kirk Yetholm in two days, resting overnight half way in Bivvy Bags! About 30 booked but a nasty cold doing the rounds knocked the numbers down to 20. I wonder how many would book for such an event Now?
In 1981 Dewsbury CHA were doing the Pennine Way in stages just like we have been doing now, but they could not get enough people for the last two weekends and they asked us to join them. So at May Day weekend we walked from Alston to Bellingham and at Spring Bank from Bellingham to Kirk Yetholm – a much tougher programme than our current one! In 2003 we used parts of the Pennine Way in Teesdale and from Greenhead to Woden Law on our way from Bradford to Edinburgh, our Centenary Walk (CW). Now in 2010 we have almost finished our Pennine Way project, just one weekend to go in the Cheviots. I would like to thank all the B walkers who have stoically done sections which for transport reasons just had to be A or A+ .
The Once Brewed sections were not such long mileages but involved over 2000 feet of ascent on each section. The Heart of the Cheviots and the Pennine Way Mayday Weekend 2011 Looking forward to the Cheviot section, there is good