Durham University Hill Walking Society

🎉POTW Announcement🎉

The Picture of the Week for Whitby (14/03/25) was taken by Sid Sweeney in Whitby Harbour.

“After a beautiful walk along the coast, we sat down for fish and chips with a view of a rainbow over Whitby Harbour!”

There are a couple spaces on the hillwalk in Kettlewell this Saturday (28th Feb). If you or any of your friends are keen please sign up here: https://duhws.org/signup.

Have you been particularly impressed by the society this year? Or do you think there are areas which could be improved? In any case, please do take some time to fill out our annual survey found HERE, to be in with a chance of winning one of three free day trips! This is a great opportunity to have a say in how the society is run and what you think could be improved, which makes a huge difference as without you guys coming on and enjoying trips, the society simply would not be able to function. Thanks!

See you there!

This Easter holiday, departing Durham on the evening of the last Friday of term, we will be venturing up North to the Scottish Highlands for our first expedition of the year, in Glen Etive! You’d be hard pressed to find a more epic location in the UK, which may be why part of Skyfall was filmed here. Glen Etive boasts to be one of the most beautiful valleys in the Scottish Highlands, and the area around it is home to a plethora of stunning mountains such as Ben Starav and Creise, and benefits from the nearness of Glencoe to extend its range to Buchaille Etive Mor and the famous Bidean nam Bian!

This expedition will comprise 3 days of walking and 3 nights, including Friday night by the car park, and will cost £53 covering transport and dinner for the 2 nights out on the hill. Sign up will happen at 08:00hrs this Thursday via this FORM, so set those alarms! A yellow and red exped route will be on offer; due to the remote nature of the trip and the full-on nature of expeditions at times, previous experience of expeditions will need to be seen for this - (not necessarily with the society so don’t let this put you off though!). See you there!

On the 17th March at 7pm, we shall be cordially congregating in the Kingslodge Inn for our annual meal! This is always a great evening with good food, good drink, and good chat! If you want to attend, sign up will open at 10am THIS Thursday (19th Feb) (https://forms.gle/KmqNCUTPfP2vZtwu8)! It will be first come first served, although the form will ask you to order (so if you want to be speedy, you can look at the menu in advance at KLI-Kingslodge-Inn-Autumn-2025-WEB.pdf). Reece and Rosie will confirm if you have a place next week, hopefully see you there!

Please encourage everyone you know in the society to come along!

Please come along so we can raise lots of money, it's also just really great fun!

Arrive at 6.45pm in time to start at 7pm

Keep and eye out in the weekly email for the sign up link!

Happy New year everyone, here are the destinations for next terms walks!

17th Jan Threlkeld
24th Jan Swaledale
31st Jan Ambleside
6th-8th Feb Crianlarich
14th Feb Local walk
21st Feb Braithwaite
28th Feb Kettlewell
7th Mar Langdale
14th Mar Whitby

As well as 1 or 2 expeditions with dates and locations to be confirmed

Can't wait to see you all out on the hills soon

Do you want to learn more about navigating in the mountains, and would like to develop your skills with aspirations of personal trips or becoming a society (or indeed mountain) leader? Whether you’re an experienced navigator or never held a compass before, join us at 19.30 on Thursday and learn from some of our experienced leaders (Room TBC)! See you there!