Members Present: Dave Bone, Sheena Hendrie, Mark Ashley, Al Metelko, Rick Davies

Guests: Paul Daintree, David Collins

This meet did not start well. On the reconnaissance trip the week before Rob Allen and I froze on Attermire Scar and retreated ingloriously having achieved nothing (other than missing England v Sweden). We even suffered Morris Dancers in the town square in Settle as we headed for the pub.

Come Thursday night in the pub, with a wet weather forecast, we changed the meet to Pot Scar, being lower, easier, and not so far to walk.

On the day, it was overcast and threatening rain but not wet enough to call off. So Dave and I headed for Feizor where we met Mark, Paul and David looking pessimistically at a grey crag on the skyline. Apparently it had been tipping down 30 minutes before. Having gone all that way and with 2 guests, we thought we'd better try our best so walked up to the crag and spent the next 40 minutes hanging around convincing ourselves that the rock was getting drier. Mark soloed a Diff, while the rest of us eyed up various VS's and a sole VDiff. In the end we reckoned it was just about dry enough to climb so we geared up to start on the VDiff.

As I was about to start the rain started - I did a slow sprint up the route in order to get a tick, brought Dave up and we then retreated. Paul had started up some easy ground (which had already seen off Mark on a solo outing) but got caught as the rain poured down and took the wise option of retreating.

Rain had clearly stopped play for the day and we headed home. You will note that Al and Rick don't feature in the report so far - Rick phoned when I got home to say they had got as far as Feizor and arrived in time to see me topping out. From under their golf umbrella they wrote a note to say they were moving to Malham - neither Dave nor I saw this note on the windscreen so their attendance gets only half a tick.

Thinking positively, I've added 1 to my 3 previous Yorkshire routes! Thanks to those who came.

I have a (half-baked) plan:

• get map, find Yorkshire
• stick pin in map, select one (of only two) crags I have previously visited in Yorkshire
• select Attermire Scar (Yorkshire Limestone guide, GR SD 834642)
• head for Moonshine, HS *** at the RH end of the crag
• work back left along the crag from there

I will probably park in the centre of Settle and walk up to the crag from there. Suggested arrival time at Moonshine will be 1100. Routes of all grades are available, but if you want any detailed recommendations, find a local expert who speaks Yorkshire! (Rick and Dave Bone seem to be knowledgeable.) I opted to fill in a space in the meets list and selected Yorkshire because if it's near enough to go for a walk in winter, it must surely be near enough for a days climbing in summer and makes a change from the Peak District and Wales.

Hope to see a good turn out.