CHA were invited to a Garden Party in Aras an Uachtarain as part of our 90th Year Celebrations. Several members of the committee and our two longest serving members accepted the invitation as representatives of the club. It was a great honour for the CHA and an important part of our 90th year celebrations.
The walk record form for leaders to complete after a walk is available for printing under the Member's Only side panel for signed in members.This form is in pdf format and is 2-up on an A4 sheet.
Fellow CHA members - I do the PR for the Bridgestone Guides and the 2012 editions are launched 25th January - thought you may be interested in their Top 10 Places to Stay for Walkers:
| Establishment: | Location: | Walk |
|---|---|---|
| Fortview House Goleen | Cork | The Sheep’s Head Way |
| Ghan House Carlingford | Louth | The Tain Way |
| Glasha Farmhouse Ballymacarbry | Waterford | Comeragh Mountains |
| Gregan’s Castle Ballyvaughan | Clare | Burren Hill Walks |
| Linsfort Castle Buncrana | Donegal | Mamore to Dunree |
| Marlagh Lodge Ballymena | Antrim | Slemish Mountain |
| Mulranny Park , Mulranny | Mayo | Great Western Greenway |
| QC’s Cahirciveen | Kerry | The Kerry Way |
| Roundwood House Mountrath | Laois | Slieve Bloom Way |
| Step House Hotel Borris | Carlow | The Barrow Way |
On 11th December I updated the CHA website.
The main reasons for the update were that the software being used to support the site had a major release upgrade ( Drupal 6 to 7) and this afforded the opportunity to change the whole underlying template of the site to a new one ( Omega for techies ) that allows a much more friendly design approach for mobile phone and similar devices.
I did try keep a very similar look to the 2010 version of the site, but there may be a few glitches and variations. (More details below)
The changes you should notice are that the site adapts itself to the size of the screen being used to browse the site. You can see this change if you shrink the window size the browser uses. To conserve costly bandwidth, the banner picture is not sent down to mobile devices. Mobile devices are shown much more practical text oriented information on the opening pages, but the photo gallery is still completely available to be accessed if required.
Those of you with wide screen laptops or PCs with 1200 pixel or more width will now see a wider picture at the top. Because of the need for a different picture format there are now two different sets of photographs in use between the wide screen and narrower screens. There are fewer suitable for the full width screen.
Please do let me know of any problems or glitches that you notice. I'll still be picking through the site looking for snags over the next day or two.
Happy Christmas to you all.
Robert
Glen of Imaal Mountain Rescue is selling 2012 calendars to raise funds towards the completion of its Base at Trooperstown, Laragh, Co. Wicklow. Please log on to www.wmr.ie if you would like to purchase a calendar or contact Colm Quinn cquinn@reddyarchitecture.com The calendar costs €10. Click to view flyer
A new facility has been added for signed-up members.
We now have a page with links to gallery pages that members have on the internet.
Sign in now and click on 'Members Photo Galleries' in the 'Member Only' column on the right hand side..
These include Mary's Saalbach, Trevor's Portugal and Roya Valley and Jill's Galtees and Rambler's Austria. Enjoy
The current planned itinerary for our holiday in France next year can be viewed by clicking French Holiday
Paddy Duggan heard of this Canadian remedy via Karen Woods, Dublin Mountains Partnership:
Ingredients: One part Listerine One teaspoon of lemon-flavoured washing-up liquid Four parts water
Mix together in a spray bottle and use liberally. You can spray it on yourself, or around where you are sitting/eating. "It's the ONLY thing that REALLY works"
A block had been added to the left hand side column to highlight walk alerts on the front page of the site. When there are no outstanding alerts there will be no block there.
Items are added to this block when a 'Story' has been added with 'Walk Alerts' selected in the Interests selection. Items will stay there until 30 days older than the 'Authoring Date' or have had their 'Publishing Options' state of 'Promote to Front Page' set off.
Members who have signed up for access to the site can add their own news items and Walk Alerts. They can also add comments to any existing news items.
The programme for September to December 2011 including the B/C walks is now available online for signed up members.
