The Rucksack Club

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The Rucksack Club was founded in Manchester in 1902 and has a current membership of well over 400 men and women. According to the Rules, "The objects of the Club are to facilitate walking tours, cave explorations and mountaineering in the British Isles and elsewhere, and bring into fellowship men and women who are interested in these pursuits, and to do whatever shall be deemed by the Committee from time to time to be conducive to the foregoing objects."

1 History
2 Huts
3 Notable Members
4 Bibliography
5 See also
6 External Links

[edit] History

The Rucksack Club was formed in Manchester in 1902 by a group of men who responded to a letter written to a newspaper by two young men. They were invited to a meeting and resolved there and then to form a club with the object "To facilitate walking tours and mountaineering expeditions, both in the British Isles and elsewhere, and to particularly to initiate members into the science of rock climbing and snowcraft".

[edit] Huts

The Club owns three excellent and strategically placed huts: Beudy Mawr at the heart of the Llanberis Pass, High Moss in the Duddon Valley at the foot of the Walna Scar track over to Coniston, and Craigallan looking out over Loch Linnhe within easy reach of Glencoe.

[edit] Notable Members

J. Rooke Corbett

[edit] Bibliography

(1987) From Kinder Scout to Kathmandu : a Rucksack Club Anthology 1907-1986. Manchester: Rucksack Club. ISBN B000KFS9Z8.
(2002) in John Beatty: This Mountain Life: The First Hundred Years of the Rucksack Club. Manchester: Northern Light. ISBN 0954621107.