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Happy New Year and Best Wishes for 2012.

Ready for a new year and raring to get out there? The 2012 Tuesday evening programme is now on the Social events page; and the Sunday Walk Programme for this year is also available. Club weekends also kick off end January, see below for more details.

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A good turnout, and a great start to the year on the Tillicoultry to Blackford trip. It was like a good summers day, with clear skies , and sunshine. It was ,however, windy at high level which made it colder. About half did a high level route taking in Ben Cleuch, and the other half did a lower level route. Hotel in Blackford was our pub stop. Left Blackford 5, back Paisley about 6.15 p.m.. 

Click facebook page to see photos of this walk.

The next bus trip will be to the Cowal hills (Beinn Mhor, Clach Bheinn), on 5th February  2012. To book a place contact the bus convenor for this walk, Brenda Lawson at, 01294 276351 or at  busbookings@paisleyhillwalkingclub.org.uk

The last club meet of the year at the Raeburn Hut  (Nov 18-20) rewarded club members with some sunshine and beautiful autumnal scenery, with surprisingly no rain! A decent number of hills were summitted, including the Monadliath munros; the Creag Pitridh, Geal Charn, Beinn a' Chlachair group; and both corbetts and munros around Drumochter Pass. Others took advantage of the weather to cycle in the area. The Raeburn Hut continues to get even better - the new parking area in front of the hut certainly makes life easier and safer!

The weekend meets program for 2012 is now on the website. Bookings open 12 Dec for the first trip to Mill Cottage in Glen Feshie on 27-28 Jan. Hope to see you in the New Year.

Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park: if you encounter any access issues in the Park, have any queries or 'good news' access stories also, contact Sue at phcwebadmin@paisleyhillwalkingclub.org.uk.

Calling all cyclists! Thomsons Cycles, formerly at Lawn Street, have a new store at 49 Causeyside Street Paisley (0141 887 6611) and are offering 10% discount to Paisley Hillwalking Club members, on production of a current membership card. Please support all our local suppliers, especially those who support us!

Any unwanted camping gear or warm clothing? Contact Eileen 0141 562 9821 or 07900 960492.

Key information service news: 
EmergencySMS has been launched. Orginally for deaf and hard of hearing people it has been adapted to allow people to text 999 when voice calls cannot be made but there is sufficient signal to send a text. To register, simply text Register to 999 then follow instructions. For more details see http://www.emergencysms.org.uk

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