This section is devoted to the membership of the Online Fellwalking Club.  Here you will find much to link you with other members of the club and share in each other's experiences.  Since its inception, the membership has made the OFC what it is - a great place to be. Please feel free to contact us and include your own selections and articles.

A selection of the latest items from our Club Members is shown below:

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    Dale Head
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    Polly completes her 214
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    Birkhouse Moor
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    With Wasdale MRT - Remembrance Sunday, 2005
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    Helm Crag
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    New OFC website launch (23 August 2007)
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    AW Centenary Walk - Pendle (Jan 2007)
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    With Jos Naylor - Fellrunning legend!
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    Drinks in the Unicorn, Ambleside
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    Ascent of Skiddaw, February 2003
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    OFC on Ullock Pike
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    Roger Hiley leads a walk up Haystacks
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    At Cockermouth MRT Base Presenting £400
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    The OFC Photographers!
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    A Kentmere Round with Austrian member, Helmut Hudler
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    Ascent of Low Fell before the Inaugural Dinner 2nd Sep 2006
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    Pendle Summit - The Wainwright Memorial Walk
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    3rd Club Meet - An Ascent of Rannerdale Knotts
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    The Highest Book Launch in the Land!
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    Ben Hammond et al - Remembrance Sunday
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    Housesteads Fort, Christmas 2002
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    First OFC Club meet
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    High Pike on the occasion of the AW Society Inaugural Meeting
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    Honister meet August 2007
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    Hunter Davies - The OFC Inaugural Dinner
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    Lost Sheep 6 - Launch August 2007
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    Channel 4 Roman Walk - Traverse of High Street
Orrest Head 80 - Saturday 5th June
Community News
Friday, 08 January 2010
Read more... I was reading The Wainwright Memorial Walk a while since and it dawned on me that 2010 would be the 80th anniversary of AW's ascent of Orrest Head.   Before 1967, the Whitsuntide (Pentecost) holiday was not static in the calendar as it is today and as I thought, finding the exact date Alfred climbed Orrest Head would  be reasonably straight forward with all the available information online.  Many of us take a holiday round the May half term, but Whitsuntide is still obviously regulated by the church.  With a bit of 'Googling' it was apparent that AW ascended his first fell on 5th June 1930.  As many of us know, this was somewhat of a revelation for Wainwright, his inspiration on the road to Damascus.  In recognition of this landmark would you like to join us for a walk to recognise this momentous occasion?....
 
OFC Summer Hike and Camp - 2010
Community News
Thursday, 07 January 2010
Read more... Robbie via the OFC Yahoo! message board has proposed that during 2010 a gathering be arranged somewhere in Lakeland.  His initial proposal is for a camp during August 2010 where people could congregate and of course walk, talk and socialise together.  Although Wasdale is Robbie's favoured location, it seems feasable in the first instance to gather interest in this idea wherever the location turns out to be.  What do you think?  Please read on and give your opinions...
 
Two Yokes for New Year - MMmm tasty!
Peter Burgess
Thursday, 07 January 2010
Read more... A New Year's Day ascent of Ill Bell started with a walk up valley past Kentmere Reservoir.  The ascent, in worsening winter conditions, included the ascent of the mountain's north-east ridge.  A second ascent the day after included carrying my downhill skis to the summit of Yoke.  The resulting descent from the mountain was one of those classic memories that will live with me forever, or until the next time I do it!....
 
Epping Forest in Snow
Peter Burgess
Friday, 18 December 2009
Read more... This article is certainly not fellwalking, but after overnight snow, London awoke to some snow on 18th December 2009.  After a pre-Christmas errand in Leyton, a drive with a friend into Epping Forest saw a photo opportunity metamorphose into a full blown walk.  With the snow on the ground and good boots on the feet, Steve and I set off into the winter wonderland of Epping Forest.
 
Laminate, Perambulate, Commemorate
Peter Burgess
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Read more... Four days in Lakeland over Remembrance weekend was eagerly anticipated by me again this year.  Having promised my parents I would lay a new kitchen floor, I was then rewarded with three excellent walks in great company.  This article examines the three walks including Hopegill Head, Great Gable for Remembrance Sunday and Wansfell in the company of my father...
 
Great Gable Remembrance Weekend - 2009
Community News
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
Read more... The OFC ascent of Great Gable for the 2009 service of Remembrance performed by the Fell and Rock Climbing Club.  This year the weather held and the party ascended from Honister Hause, meeting with Richard Ratcliffe and Ben Hammond.  After the service, the group retired to the Westmorland Cairn to take lunch before descending via Green Gable and Grey Knotts to Honister Hause.
 
The OFC Celebrates the Hileys
Community News
Monday, 02 November 2009
Read more... Roger and Ann Hiley were honoured on 8th November by the Online Fellwalking Club for all their Lakeland related activities and positive contributions in their 9 years with the OFC.   As Helmut Hudler once put it, "Peter might be the brains of the OFC, but it's the Hileys who are its heart."  Undoubtedly there are many fantastic members within the OFC but from the time of their subscription the energetic couple have contributed much to the camaraderie within the club.
 
Fleetwith Pike and Pinnacle Ridge - 2 Days in Lakeland
Peter Burgess
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Read more... On a recent visit to Cumbria I had the fine company of Mark Richards, guidebook author and illustrator.  With about 48 hours in which to travel north to Carlisle, I was welcomed as guest into the Richards' home.  Although brought up in rural Oxfordshire and later a farmer himself, it as author of many outdoors' guides that Mark is best known.  In later years Mark became a regular house-guest of Alfred Wainwright.  To find out a little more about Mark and a walk taken together read on...
 
OFC Peak District Walk - Burbage Edge
Community News
Sunday, 11 October 2009
Read more... A fantastic 12 mile walk was undertaken by the OFC around the Goyt Valley taking in Burbage Edge and Shining Tor on Saturday October 10th. Refreshments were taken afterwards at the Cat and Fiddle Inn, the 2nd highest pub in England.  By all accounts it was another fantastic day!
 
Bowfell - July 1990
Peter Burgess
Monday, 14 September 2009
Read more... I have many photographic prints that date from the pre-digital age.  I thought it would be fun, after my absence from the fells to publish images from some of my walks from years ago.  Not only will this archive my images for posterity but it might also give a few laughs along the way.  I hope you enjoy some images from the fells from the last millenia in the pre-digital age...
 
Cumbrian Floods 2009
Read more... During the recent flooding episode which hit Cumbria and some parts of south-west Scotland it seemed inappropriate to linger on the events and developing trauma to hit the area.  Media hype has festered on the tragedy and many people watching on their TV or listening on the radio could do little but offer support directly to people they might know in the region either by e-mail or telephone.  With the worst of the severe weather now over it seems appropriate to highlight the clean-up and aftermath as national media coverage begins to subside.  Now that the clean-up has begun perhaps some of us may be able to offer support by way of financial contribution especially in the run-up to Christmas.  If you'd like to donate - no matter how small a sum, please read on...
 
The Lost Sheep 8 - Available Now
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Issue 8 - OUT NOW!
The long and anticipated wait for the launch of the next issue of The Lost Sheep is now here.  Issue 8 is a veritable feast of articles which again have lifted the quality of the publication to a heady height which belies our humble roots.  The OFC should really be proud of ths publication especially after the £500 raised for Duddon and Furness MRT.  If you would like to get your hands on a copy or 10 then please do read on...
 
HAVE YOU SEEN?
Wainwright Walks - Series One

Read more...This five part series features an hour long documentary of the famous fell walker and guide writer, and four 30 minute programmes with Julia Bradbury walking in AW's footsteps along his favourite walks.  Including Haystacks, Blencathra, Castle Crag and the highest English Munro of them all, this is a definite view for anyone interested in AW, the fells or both.

 
An Atlas of the English Lakes
Read more... With the advent of a recent poll examining people's favourite lakes proposed by David Dimmock, I thought it a good prompt to review an excellent book portraying charts of the English Lakes.  Remarkably, despite the name, most books on our beloved district encompass the high fells and walking.  However, John Wilson Parker has gone some way to correct the balance with this excellent atlas.  It really is a worthy addition to the shelf...
 
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