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Walking with; Bremex Mountaineering Club
In 1963 Hugh Freeman set up the Brent Mountain Expedition training scheme with the purpose of providing low cost training for adventurous activities. The club ran continuously educating generations of outdoors folk until 1994 when it became an independent charity and began to run peer-to-peer skills sessions covering a variety of subject areas across a wide range of the mountainous areas of Britain http://www.bremex.org.uk/. Non-members can attend a weekend for a very reasonable £10 taster fee and it was on this basis that I’d decided to join the group for a weekend of navigation practice on and around the Kinder Plateau.
The activities were all small group based and peer led and tried to cover as many different bases as possible. We used different scales, led legs in pairs and as individuals, worked on relocation strategies, navved “blind” trying to improve our “map memories” and micro-navved from insignificant boulder to barely existent stream junction. The facilitators were excellent and tried to ensure any specific areas of skills we were interested in were covered. As someone who spends much of time walking alone I was unsure how I would adjust to the “club” mentality but it was refreshing and stimulating to meet like minded people and speak to other ML trainees as well as benefiting from the experience of those already qualified or with much greater experience.
I camped at Coopers campsite at the head of Edale and conveniently close to “Ye Olde Nag’s Head”. I should have known better, my early season camping expeditions haven’t always been the most successful https://www.comewalkwithmeuk.co.uk/2013/04/a-wet-wild-and-windy-lakeland-trip.html and sure enough the wind did it’s worst on Saturday night but my Wild Country Hoolie more than stood up to the test. So a weekend of sharing skills, swapping tall tales over pints and meeting like minded people, couldn’t have asked for more and I shall be looking into joining the club as an associate member. I would highly recommend the set up and suggest people check out the website and see if the tasters are of interest to them!
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Hello this is Dave Coles who seeks Bremex Old Boys and Girls!
Former member in the 70’s and 80’s now 70+
Love to swap tall stories and maybe contribute skills.
Kept myself fit for fun.
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Love to hear from you! Dave
Thanks for the comment Dave. I am afraid I am not involved with Bremex myself at the moment although I very much enjoyed the weekend I spent with them! Good luck with the search !!
Hi, I was on Bremex way back around 1982/83 we were a young group of friends, Elaine, Lorraine, Stuart and Graham. We tended to stick tog as a group. Sadly Stuart has recently passed away at 57 yrs of age, funeral is Friday 26th April 2019. I ( Elaine) often wonder what happened to all the girls and guys that were on Bremex in those days. I have very happy special memories of those days, and remb with such pride. My email is elainestacey12@googlemail.com formerly Elaine Robson.
Hi Ian (are you an Ian I already know?) i did the Bremex Standard course back in 1985/6 when Hugh was still with us. Just tried to get onto Bremex.org.uk only to find it no longer exists (?). So, where has the old crew got to and is any rump still active? Would be gr8’to know….
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Many thanks
Tristan
Hi Tristan,
I am afraid that I am not the Ian that you once knew ( I would have been 12 in 1985). I really enjoyed the trip I did with Bremex but it was a one off and I haven’t been back since then, purely for practical reasons rather than anything Bremex did. I apologise that I can’t provide any more useful information.
Cheers (and good luck with the search).
Ian
Hi Tristan, I think we did some stuff together in the 80s. I am Jose, from Spain. Currently back in Spain.
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