Summary from Barry Smith, RHSoc Chair A quick note to say thank you to all those who attended the AGM and dinner on Saturday at Montrose. Everyone appeared to enjoy the event. The AGM went well, with good discussions on...
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Visiting 17 islands Summer Isles summits
You need to be fleet of foot to book an RHSoc island bagging trip these days - and we weren't. David Gilchrist's Summer Isles trip was booked up with 4 reserves whilst we blinked. So what to do? After consulting David...
Inverness Annual Dinner and AGM June 2024
Summary from Rick Salter, RHSoc Chair A quick note to say a big thank you to those who attended the AGM and dinner on Saturday in Inverness. I heard from many how much they had enjoyed the event, and with 90 folks...
St Kilda Stacs Trip report – December 2023
By Gill Stephens and Alastair Govan Note from editor: This article was submitted for inclusion in our journal Relative Matters. Unfortunately, it wasn't included due to a mistake on my part. Apologies to Gill and...
Trip report: Exploring islands around Skye
Our boat trips visited 17 islands around Skye with members climbing to the highest point of each Most will have heard of the Islands of Rhum or Raasay, but there are many more islands around Skye. At the end of May...
Two new classification criteria for the hills and mountains of Britain
Introducing Jut and On-Top-Of-The-World Mountains Editor's Introduction. Kai Xu, a researcher from Yale University has been in touch via the website to share two new (to me at least) measures we thought might be...
RHSoc Annual Photo competition 2022 shortlists and winners
This blog post gives an update for Members and Subscribers on where we are in the selection process and to give some feedback on photos that may help if you enter next time around. For the 2022 entries, which we're...
New Y Marilyns app for the Welsh hills
Now live on Apple's App store and Google's Play store is our new free new mobile app which gives an interactive guide to all of the Welsh Marilyns.Ā Ā Search on Y Marilyns to download the app or download from each app...
Moffat Autumn Bagger Rambles trip – October 2022
Trip report from Dave Chaffey As Steve Smith said over on the Facebook Relative Hills group, this was a cracking RHSoc weekend, with great company and some smashing walks. I couldn't have put it better myself! The...
Completing the Simms
Jenny Hatfield explains how and why RHSoc members Michael Earnshaw and Rob Woodall climbed the Simms At the Relative Hills Society Dinner in May 2022, Rob Woodall was presented with the āMad Baggerā trophy for 2021, in...