Members present: John Evans, Dave Garland, Sabina Cosulich, Sheena Hendrie, Joe Flynn, James Richardson, Scott Sadler, Ian Crook, Lester Payne, Colin Maddison, Craig Marsden, Dave Dillon, Dave Wylie, Margaret Baldock, Al Metelko, Kevin Anderson, Fiona Roy, Mark Ashley, Joanne Castick and Duncan Lee.

Guests: Tony Mays, Jon Cowley, Simon Banks, Mark Haslop, Jenny Varley and Nantida.

Uninvited guest: Steve Bowker,

Friday night saw the first sparks flying as Ian and James launched off on Cloggy buggy mark I's maiden voyage. A short but eventful test run saw the buggy reduced to a twisted mess to match the twisted minds of its creators. Thus Saturday's squally weather saw the intrepid team heading to B and Q in Bangor to buy replacement parts for buggy number two. Craig was not that lucky. Colin dragged him off for a traditional character building day on Tryfan starting with a route on Milestone Buttress and concluding with the classic Grooved arête in the wet. Rumour has it that numerous 'technical climbing terms' may have been used by Craig on a particularly slimy section. Tut tut!

Saturday nights curry courtesy of Messrs Evans, Garland and Richardson was a superb meal in which lentils featured heavily. There were at least five different curries on offer, all of which were excellent and plentiful. Good effort lads.

Sunday saw teams heading to Gogarth, Tremadog, Carreg Hyll-drem and the slate guarries, amongst other places in an endeavour to dodge the showers. El presidente was seen tied into the middle of a rope of five at one point in the day on the Hyll-drem girdle and a team who will remain nameless were totally outfoxed by the whereabouts of 'Yogi' and 'Boo Boo'; smarter than the average KMC member. Other routes that were accosted by various KMCers include Mensor, Tantalus, Poor Man's Peuterey and Mr. Evan's superb hung-over lead of The Fang. Sunday evening also saw the first ride of the rebuilt buggy. The only casualties of this launch were the backside of James trousers and all his keys which went missing in action.

Monday saw a lot of folk heading to the coast at Rhoscolyn and a few heading into the hills, but no one was daft enough to go to Cloggy which would have been awash. 'Tomorrow has been cancelled due to lack of interest' proved to be particularly popular with the seasiders whilst a slime fest on Lot's Wife provided a good battle for those in search of solitude in the near deserted hills. James and Scott ventured over to Carnedd Y Filiast where they did the classic Left Edge on Atlantic Slab.

Cheers to everyone who turned up and especially to the chefs. Apologies to anyone whose names may have been omitted from the list of those present, being my usual organized self I lost the list I had made. Everyone named however definitely stayed at the hut. Thanks Margaret!

Curry

Ok folks, the title of this meet is fairly self-explanatory... The plan, such as it is will involve (weather permitting) a goodly amount of climbing on the big crag on the north side of Snowdon visible from the track near the hut. A flick through one of the relevant guidebooks will give an impression of the scale, number and quality of routes available on the cliff; suffice it to say that there's plenty to go at!

On Saturday night I (and any number of glamourous helpers) will be cooking a quantity of food with the general theme of curry. I shall be attempting poppadoms, onion bhajis, several vegetarian dishes, rice and nan breads. Obviously the quantity is dependent on the numbers partaking, I'll be asking for maybe three pounds towards the cost of the meal.

Duncan is planning to bivvy up at the base of the cliff on Sunday night, hopefully the worst of the effects of the Madras will have worn off by then. With luck this will allow a long day without the chore of the walk-in from Llanberis. Any queries (or reservations) to myself of Duncan will be welcome. Anyone willing or able to assist with preparation or cooking would be most helpful.

Clogwyn Du'r Arddu

The plan for the Cloggy campaign is for a two-day assault on the Sunday and Monday with a bivouac/camp, below the crag on the Sunday night to add to the enjoyment of the experience of climbing on this wonderful crag. There are routes from V.Diff upwards but the quality only really starts at the dreaded grade of Hard Severe with "Slab climb right hand "(Far west buttress) and "Direct finish to the east buttress" (The Pinnacle), both two stars. A selection of the crags three star classics such as Longland's climb (VS), Pigott's Climb (VS), Curving Crack (VS), Llithrig (HVS), The Corner (HVS), Octo (HVS), The Boulder (E1), White Slab (E1), Shrike (E1), Jellyroll (E2), Silhouette (E2), November (E3), West Buttress Eliminate (E3) and Great Wall (E4) should be enough to keep people happy as long as the weather cooperates. Even if the weather fails to play the game I plan to visit the crag