King's Mountaineering and Kayaking Association

KING'S ON GRAND TOUR - GUILLESTRE, FRANCE - JULY 2011

This year was going to be big; this year’s King’s on Tour was going to be grand.

0800 - Friday 1st July 2011 - Somewhere between Cambridge and London: Me (James Taylor) , Andrew Munro, Chris Logan and the Highland Coo were heading up the bright yellow Party Van. Meanwhile Max-Hewkin-Smith, Barnaby Bryan, Sian Hughes, Billy Taylor and the Highland Calf were leading in the unfortunately named Toyota brand Disabled Mobile. We had a long drive ahead of us...

KING'S ON CLIMBING TOUR - PEAKS - MARCH 2011

Andrew Munro, Max Hewkin-Smith and Billy Taylor and I drove to Thorpe Farm in Hathersage on the morning of 21st of March. Secured in the boot were plenty vittles and drinks for the week, along with all of the necessary hardware and ropes that make a climbing trip. The roof was loaded with bouldering mats and Max and Andy had to be shoehorned into the back seat of my Corsa, but all was good, Dr Jones was blasting out of the tape deck, the sun was shining, aviators were sported and HGVs were...

KING'S ON TOUR - FORT WILLIAM, SCOTLAND - JUNE/JULY 2010

Friday 25th June with all of the kayaks, climbing gear and group tents. They set up the campsite and scouted the local river, River Nevis, and the climbing situation in the Polldubh hills on the Saturday and Sunday morning. On Sunday afternoon they watched England get thrashed by Germany in the pub down the road.

The main group of 14 people arrived on the evening of Sunday 27th having driven across the country. This was to be a relaxed evening, as the activities were going to start the next day...