Sherburn Boghoppers
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Messages from John Penrose Sent: 27th November 2024 Future walks update:- Sunday 12th January- Train supported walk Todmorden/Hebden Bridge. This will be an A/B walk unless someone offers to lead a B walk somewhere else. Sunday 2nd February – Cars or public transport. I am away on that date so this will be dependent on offers of leading A and B walks (or a combined A/B walk). Volunteers please. Sherburn/Micklefield, Aberford/Wetherby Sunday 23rd February- Coach. Alan will be leading an A walk from Skipton. Offers for a B walk please. Sunday 16th March- Coach. I will lead an A walk from Grassington. Offers for a B walk please. Walk leader offers also needed for 6th April and 27th April. Finally, a reminder that our AGM will be on Monday 3rd March.
Sent: 11th November 2024 The next walk is from Pocklington on Sunday 1st December with the A walk led by Alan Yeaman. We still do not have a B walk leader, the walk could also go from Pocklington or nearby Millington where we have often walked previously. Offers for a B walk as soon as possible please book your coach place with Jean no later than Saturday 23rd November so that we can be sure that we have a viable number. The following 2 walks will be using public transport and/or cars. Again we will need offers of walk leaders. A, B and C walks do not need to start from the same location so choose your spot! If no B walk leaders are forthcoming I will adjust my plans and lead a combined A/B walk. I propose to lead one walk (A or A/B) on Sunday 12th January. We will walk from either Todmorden or Hebden Bridge and I will take account of the weather and walk grade in settling on the route. I propose to use the 09.19 from Leeds to Hebden Bridge (10.02) or Todmorden (10.08). We can meet up on this train or, as earlier this year, most of us would probably find it convenient to meet on the 08.42 from Garforth (you can also join this train at Micklefield (08.36). The return fare is £9.60 (or £4.20 with a West Yorkshire Senior Concession). Those not wishing to use the train could drive and meet us there. If there are no offers I will try to plan a walk for the following Boghoppers walk on our programme on 2nd February… walk leader offers please! We will, of course, need walk leaders for the following coach supported walks which are planned for 23rd February, 16th March and 6th April… please help us to get these next three trips planned! Lastly, a number of us have booked for the Lakes Weekend at The Derwentwater Hotel starting on Friday 27th June. Should anyone not booked decide that they would like to come after all please let me know as soon as you can, we can always add some further rooms while they are still available. Coach Pickups 20 March 2023 At the AGM a resolution was passed that we reduced the number of coach pickups to a maximum of one after Sherburn. The result would be that the coach would pick up at Tadcaster, Wetherby or Garforth depending on our destination. The reason for this was to reduce the journey time and to reduce the mileage/coach hire. It was probably brought up because the route via Micklefield and Aberford to Tadcaster was felt to be particularly onerous. NB. We originally travelled straight from Sherburn to Tadcaster but introduced the pickups in Micklefield & Aberford when we resumed having the coach after covid to try and encourage people back to the walks. We have now looked in more detail at the implications to costs and mileage. Sherburn to Tadcaster direct would appear to save £10 on the coach hire and more than halve the travel time and mileage between those points. However, the journey to Wetherby from Sherburn can only be reduced by 5 minutes or so on a 26 minute journey by taking the most direct route, and apparently would not attract any saving on the coach hire. We would, therefore, propose that we maintain the pickups at Micklefield and Aberford when travelling via Wetherby but on other routes just pick up at Tadcaster or Garforth. We are conscious that this does not exactly match the terms of our AGM resolution but we are confident that it implements the intention and spirit of it. Please let us know of your opinion on the matter and if this is not acceptable to a number of you we will review the situation again. For the time being we will maintain pickups at Micklefield and Aberford when we travel via Wetherby as the case for our next walk at Leyburn on the 16th April.
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