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...
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Jenny HatfieldTwo 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...
Dave ChaffeyMull 2023 trip report
Our regular Spring Bagger Rambles trip continued the Scottish island theme this year, following on from our popular Islay trip last year. This time staying in Craignure on Mull. As trip co-ordinator, Steve Smith said:...
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...
Book Review: Tales from the Grahams: 231 medium-sized hills of Scotland by Alan Dawson and Ann Bowker.
A review by Norman Wares The latest book by Alan Dawson has created considerable interest but the author’s registration of the term “Grahams” as a trademark, together with the lowering of the minimum height from 609.6m...
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. 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 “Mad Bagger” trophy for 2021, in...
Orkney Islands trip reports – August 2022
The plans for a visit to Orkney were originally drawn up in August 2021 and after such a long gestation period it was a relief to actually arrive in Kirkwall ready for our adventure. There was such a demand that the two...
Summer Isles Trip Report 13-14 June 2022
Report from Denise McLellan and Peter Dinnage Peter Dinnage writes, ‘When the opportunity arose to join the trip, I thought, why not? I am in my 2nd year of RHSoc membership, and it was about time I found out who...
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