Stu’s
Walk
On
10th June 2012, a group of family and friends of Stuart Tyrer staged a
sponsored walk in memory of Stuart, who died at the age of 23 in an accident on
Snowdon in April this year. 26 people walked to the summit of Snowdon from
Snowdon café in Pen Ceunant, near Llanberis. The walkers were supported by a
basecamp team of 6, who manned a publicity stall, collected donations, and
prepared hot food for the walkers on their return.
Funds
collected are to be split between Mountain Rescue, SARDA (Search & Rescue
Dogs Association), and Help for Heroes.
The
Walk
The
walk departed from Snowdon Café, Pen Ceunant SH579592 at 09:40. The 26 walkers
followed the Llanberis Path to Snowdon summit SH610543, arriving at 12:50.
Return was by the same route, leaving the summit at 14:00 and arriving back at
Snowdon Café at 16:10.
The
weather was fine and clear with little or no wind and excellent visibility over
Anglesey to the North, and most people were walking in T shirts. We encountered
cloud at the 1000m level, ½km short of the summit. With a temperature at this
height of 6-7o C, a light southerly wind felt cold enough to
persuade most people to put a jacket on. It then started to rain whilst the
team were in the summit café, and this continued until about ½ hour into the
descent, after which the weather again turned fine and dry.
At
the summit, we held an informal ceremony a short distance down the path which
Stuart is believed to have taken from the summit. We laid a small bunch of
poppies, with a memorial card, and the 55 Squadron Brick was presented to its
last-ever recipient. This was a touching and emotional tribute to Stuart, and
the team then retired to the summit café.
Walk
Statistics
Snowdon
Café, Pen Ceunant SH579592 to Snowdon summit SH610543 and return
Distance: 13km round trip
Ascent
& descent: 920 metres
Time
for ascent: 3 hours 10 minutes
Time
for descent: 2 hours 10 minutes
Thanks
to our Supporters
We
want to say a big thank you to everyone who took part and made the whole weekend
such a tremendous success.
Thanks
to the following organisations for material, financial and other support:
Aquinas College, Stockport Loan of a minibus for the
weekend
Cobdens Hotel, Capel Curig Hospitality
and friendly service during a long evening
Colourbanners.co.uk Provision
of publicity banner
Lighthouse Stationery, Fleetwood Provision of publicity leaflets
Siabod Café, Capel Curig Opened
especially early for breakfast, donation to funds
Snowdon Café,
Pen Ceunant Provision of
facilities to establish ‘basecamp’, and general raising of the profile of the
event
Sam Swift & Ellis Brigham Accommodation and use of
facilities at Capel Curig store Mountain Sports
78plate.com Provision and printing of T
shirts
Thanks
also to everyone who has made donations, sponsored a walker etc, and to the
many people who were unable to be present on the day, but sent their good
wishes.
Particular
thanks are due to Charlie, Jake, Jamie, Mike and Rick for conceiving the idea
in the first place, and for the hard work they have put into the organisation
over the last 2 months.
Paul
and Carol Tyrer
12th
June 2012
The walkers (in
alphabetical order) The
Basecamp Team
Andrew
Bryan Jan
Gleave
Jake
Bryan Heather
Lawson
Phil
Cawood Iris
Reed
James
Cartlidge Jill
Tipping
Charlie
Egan Mark
Tipping
James
Garnett Carol
Tyrer
Mike
Geldard
Hayley
Hall
Ed
Heaton
Jamie
Kenyon
Wayne
Knowles
Mark
Lawson
James
Morgan
Adele
Mueller
Chris
Mueller
John
Mueller
Tim
Nelson
Maddie
Pizzoni
James
Ritchie
Chris
Rose
Charlotte
Sims
Kim
Smith
Hope
Starr
Johnnie
Tipping
Paul
Tyrer
Rick
Wills
And
the 2 dogs, Ben and Murphy
