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Karabiner Mountaineering Club Annual Dinner 2023

Saturday morning so many choices:

Climbing at Carnedd y Filiast – lead by Colin Maddison

Mol Eilio circuit – Lead by Christine Beeston

Plus lots of other outings, cycling around Anglesey, walks up Tryfan, Elidr Fawr and Y Garn traverse

Climbing at Carnedd y Filiast

Saturday 11th November 2023

The promised sunshine looked at risk at the hotel with light drizzle in Llanberis however two groups of stalwarts made their way to Carnedd y Filiast, with Jared Kitchen, Emily Thompson, Michelle Harrison and Stuart Hurworth heading for Left Edge VD approaching from the Llanberis side whilst the larger group of Colin Maddison, Craig Marsden, Phoebe Marsden, Roger and Bridget Mapleson, David Rainsbury made their way up ‘the Ridge’ M/SG3 approaching from the Nant Francon valley & Andy Pierce ploughing his own furrow.

The day remained dry and good fun was had by all.

I managed to let indecision reign and took enough gear up to lay siege, I should have looked how far the walk in was! Suffice it was a rather heavy pack to haul up the ridge along with expecting cooler weather… the buffalo was a poor choice of gear.. I almost passed out on the way up out of heat exhaustion.

Moel Eilio Circuit:
Present: Christine Beeston, Neil Boynton, Mark Garrod, Michelle Harvie, Sheena Hendrie, Sue Marsden & Cathy Gordon.

The walkers led by Christine departed at 10:30 prompt starting the walk in glorious sunshine and making their way up to the waterfall as a start point to an anti-clockwise circuit of Moel Eilio. Great vista towards the coast and Holyhead mountain until the summit of Moel Eilio and the cloud came down.

After Foel Grach the clouds cleared and Snowden could be seen with its throngs of people crowding the summit whilst Moel Eilio was deserted.

A good leg stretcher of 15km followed on by the ubiquitous KMC café visit.

Various other teams went for walks in and around llanberis, with Catherine and Marcus heading up around Elidir Fawr / Y Garn area

The Dinner

40 members and guests assembled for our 79^th Annual Dinner, it was good to be back at the Royal Vic and fantastic to see so many out in the hills, we had 2 groups tackling Carnedd y Filiast, a Moel Eilio circuit, Elidr Fawr and many others.

Our guest speaker this year was Bill Deakin an ex member from the 60’s. Bill gave an entertaining talk crediting some of his contemporary’s from the KMC ensuring that he returned from a winter foray into Coire An T’Sneachda… its amazing what a few prods with an axe will do to keep hypothermia at bay.

This year’s raffle was to be dedicated to Climbers Against Cancer (CAC), Bill had brought along some merch as prizes and that along with donations from KMCers so us raise a fantastic £255 in the raffle we also had a table selling T shirts and sweatshirts which managed to raise a massive £290 bring the grand total for CAC to £545. A fantastic effort for a great cause.

We secured a room to retire to post dinner, which worked out very well, where the fantastic quiz setting abilities of Colin and Mary were demonstrated again – thanks go to both for an excellent quiz.

Sunday 12^th of November

Was rather a wash out which saw much retail therapy and a few hardy souls braving the weather.

That’s all folks – thank you all for coming and making the KMC Annual Dinner a great success - see you at the 80th celebration next year.

Karabiner Mountaineering Club

78^th Year - Annual Dinner

The Royal Victoria, Llanberis

Saturday 11^th November 2023

The highlight of the 2023 social calendar has arrived again, the KMC Annual Dinner. This will be an excellent opportunity to reconnect with all your KMC friends, we will be returning to North Wales again this year to the always excellent Royal Victoria Hotel in Llanberis. With a full weekend of outdoor activities and social events that brings together members, associate members and their partners from all over the UK and farther afield it is not to be missed.

HOTEL Booking deadline 1^st October, so get in contact soon before the special rate run outs.

Friday

If you are staying at The Royal Victoria on the Friday night check in is from 3pm. In the evening, there will be an informal drinks in the bar starting around 8pm. Dependent on peoples arrival times

Saturday

PRE-ANNUAL DINNER CLIMBING/SCRAMBLING - I’ll be leading some pre-dinner climbing or scrambling on Saturday to help us work up an appetite. I’ll make a decision on what and where depending on weather (looks reasonable at the moment). So watch this space for further details near the time. Cheers. Colin

Pre Dinner Drinks: from 6pm

Call to Dinner: 6.45pm

Dinner: 7pm – 8.45 pm

Speeches: 9pm – 10pm Speakers, Raffle, Awards.

After dinner drinks: Retire to the bar for drinks and merriment until the inevitable end, a separate lounge will be available downstairs to congregate and socialise

Raffle: If you would like to donate something to the raffle please contact Craig or bring it along on to the dinner on Saturday. Tickets are £2 each. All proceeds to go to support Climbers Against Cancer, we will have a few CAC items as raffle prizes.

Sunday

More info on activities to follow on the morning, message to go out via whats app group

I am really excited – where can I stay?

The KMC has reserved 15 rooms at The Royal Victoria and we fully expect demand to exceed supply. Rooms need to be booked by Sunday 1^st of October 2023. A special rate of £109 / night has been agreed, please use group booking reference no. 66738 to get this agreed rate and book with the hotel direct.

If you prefer you can of course stay at the hut or elsewhere, please let me know if that is what you intend to do.

The cost of the dinner is £30 per person for the Vegetarian / Vegan menu and £40 for the Dolbadarn menu.

So when booking please pay the full cost of the meal only into the club main account and e mail myself @ president@karabiner.org indicating your menu choices and how much you have paid and to Roger Mapleson @ treasurer@karabiner.org with the rewference of annual dinner 23 so he can keep the club accounts straight.

Please note if you intend to stay at Ty Powdwr you need to tell us at the time of booking to ensure there is space for you. Obviously you will have to cover your own hut fees!

So what culinary delights are in store for us.

Vegetarian / Vegan Menu

STARTERS

(1) Roast tomato, basil herb soup, croutons (v, df)

(2) Dovetail of melon, raspberry compote & raspberry gel (ve)

MAIN COURSES

(1) Vegetable curry with coriander, rice and poppadum (ve)

(2) Creamy mushroom stroganoff, herb rice, truffle dressed rocket (v)

DESSERTS

(1) Salted caramel chocolate brownie, chocolate sauce (ve)

(2) Fruit salad with raspberry compote (ve)

Dolbadarn Menu