RAMSOC isn't just about Rambling and Hillwalking, we're a very friendly bunch of people and so love a good social! A few Wednesday's ago we met at Portland, armed with cameras and phones and a strange list of things we needed to take pictures of before being split into teams ready to take part in our much loved photo scavenger hunt! The race was on between mine, Patrick and Richard's teams to take pictures of as many of the things on the list as we could before Trent clock struck 8'O Clock, while making them as funny and creative as possible! We all had a lot of fun running around campus and using the scavenger hunt as an excuse to act like big children! Once the time was up we all met back in Mooch, ready for Andy and Helen to judge the categories and announce that the overall winner was Patrick's team, with the most pictures to raise a laugh! But there was a lot of funny pictures from all teams, here is just a few... A fully kitted out Rambler (bonus po

By Helen McGhee So it’s a new academic year and with that come new and exciting faces to Ramsoc. “So what was the first walk of the year like” I hear you cry! Well … sunny! Yeah I know right! So Sunday saw us set off for Castleton on a foggy and slightly chilly morning. Naturally, I looked out my window and thought ‘Layers. Lot of Layers’. So I donned the leggings under my tracksuit bottoms slipped into my fleece. The hot squash flasks were filled to the brim as they would during summer and I set off to Lincoln hall car park. Since the marathon had messed with our normal drop off route there was a lot of people already there. A surprise since I deliberately got there 15 mins early. I thought people would appreciate a committee member to greet all the new faces. It was slightly creepy seeing everyone gather from out of the mists like a scene out of a ghost story.  So when we finally got everyone on board, everyone was so excited that our Ramble Sec Alex was kept on his