Thursday, 24 April 2008. 8.00 pm Al-Bahar restaurant, High St, Elgin Thanks for club support for the February Indoor Meet at the new venue of Glen Moray Distillery Visitor Centre. A total of 28 members paid the small fee of £3.00 to attend a very entertaining and worthwhile presentation from Heavy Whalley. On 20th March we have the AGM and hopefully there will be a similar turnout! Looking ahead to April, I have provisionally booked 20 places for the Al Bahar Indian Restaurant in Elgin for Thursday 24th April at 8.00pm. This is an indoor meet with a difference, when you can eat as much as you like for £11.99…

Lecture by Heavy Whalley: Reflections on 40 years of mountaineering Glen Moray Visitor Centre, Bruceland Rd, Elgin IV30 1YE Thursday, 21st February 2008 8.00 pm David “Heavy” Whalley MBE BEM was born a son of the manse in Ayr. His parents gave him a love of the hills in Arran, Galloway and the Scottish highlands. “Heavy” Whalley was in the RAF from 1972 to December 2007 and involved in Mountain Rescue for all those 35 years. He was the Team Leader of RAF Leuchars and RAF Kinloss MR and Deputy Team Leader at Valley North Wales. He was the Senior Team Leader during the Lockerbie disaster and has been involved…

Mammores from Aonach Beag, Feb 06 – Natacha The Cottar Hoose Thursday, 24 January 2008 8.00 pm It’s that time again for aspiring snappers to highlight their lifetime achievements in photography and also to impress the club with their knowledge of peaks in Scotland and beyond. This year we are combining the Club Photo competition and the Quiz Night in one event. Geoff & Celia Armitage (aka Richard Whiteley & Carol Vorderman) will countdown the results from the quiz and photography competition to select the overall winner(s). Quiz Teams will be in groups of up to 6, selected at random by the President with a small prize for each team…

Speaker: Chris Townsend, President, Mountaineering Council of Scotland Topic: Ski touring in Yellowstone National Park with geysers, hot springs and igloos Elgin Town Hall Supper Room, Lossie Green, Elgin Friday, 23rd November 2007 8.00pm – 10.00pm Moray Mountaineering Club is staging a new style of Indoor Meet for November, using the usual successful slide show and speaker format in combination with a social event. It is hoped that members will bring along partners, girl/boyfriends, concubines, spouses (even other people’s spouses) to listen to an interesting presentation and enjoy a pleasant evening with a buffet meal and some drinks. We are fortunate to have arranged Chris Townsend as a speaker. He…