Committee 2024/2025

Meet the committee for 2024 to 2025

 

President

Name: Harry Walker (he/him)

Course: Computer Science

Email: luuhc.president@gmail.com

Hometown: Bristol

Favourite Hike: Pen-y-fan

Favourite Hiking Snack: Bourbons

Biggest Hiking Fail: Pitching for a wild camp at night in a clearing in a wood near galashiels. In the morning I got woken up by a dog walker letting me know I had accidentally pitched on a public footpath

Secretary

Name: Alice Brown (she/her)

Course: Sustainability and Environmental Management

Email: luuhc.secretary@gmail.com

Hometown: London

Favourite Hike: Malham Sunday Hike! Something about that cold, windy day just possessed a chaotic energy that cannot be recreated.

Favourite Hiking Snack: Flapjacks

Biggest Hiking Fail: Probably thinking my 7 year old boots with holes in were still fit for hiking, and ending every hike for a semester and a half with cold, wet feet. They have since been replaced

Treasurer

Name: Oly Woolsey (he/him)

Course: Computer Science

Email: luuhc.treasurer@gmail.com

Hometown: Aspley Guise, Beds

Favourite Hike: An Teallach

Favourite Hiking Snack: Jelly tots

Biggest Hiking Fail: Planning a lovely hike in the peaks, the car breaking down on arrival and having to change the hike and go from a garage in the middle of nowhere

 

Trip Sec

Name: Seb Fox (he/him)

Course: Automotive Engineering

Email: luuhc.trip@gmail.com

Hometown: Ashford, Middlesex

Favourite Hike: Winter loop from Kinlochleven up to Binnein Beag and Sgùrr Eilde Mòr (from the hut!)

Favourite Hiking Snack: Homemade Kendal mint cake and a flask of tea

Biggest Hiking Fail: Touching an electric fence to check if it was live or not, yeah turns out it was

Transport Sec

Name: Joshua Render (he/him)

Course: Computer Science with Mathematics

Email: luuhc.transportation@gmail.com

Hometown: Mirfield, West Yorkshire

Favourite Hike: Snowdon on the Easter trip, brilliant views and not too busy

Favourite Hiking Snack: Ginger Parkin from Aldi

Biggest Hiking Fail: Having to climb a mountain twice to retrieve a lost phone

Gear Sec

Name: Aspen Burberry (they/them)

Course: Ancient History

Email: luuhc.gear@gmail.com

Hometown: Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Favourite Hike: This one lovely walk around Orkney that was perfectly divided by ideal sunshine on a windy hilltop and torrential rain along a strong contender for the worlds most desolate road

Favourite Hiking Snack: Apples

Biggest Hiking Fail: Three times I tried to find the starting point of the well signposted Letchworth greenway. I am yet to succeed

 

Social Sec

Name: Bryn Barker (he/him)

Course: Chemical and Energy Engineering

Email: luuhc.social@gmail.com

Hometown: Whaley Bridge

Favourite Hike: The Liathack ridge in Torridon in summer 2023

Favourite Hiking Snack: Aldi off brand Tunnocks caramel wafers

Biggest Hiking Fail: Stepping on a random greasy step in a field and falling flat on my back

Web Sec

Name: Annie Golightly (she/her)

Course: Computer Science

Email: luuhc.web@gmail.com

Hometown: London

Favourite Hike: I’m indecisive so either the Sunday hike to Torside where I unleashed newfound chaotic energy or hiking up Snowdon for my first time, with the club!

Favourite Hiking Snack: Anything chocolatey

Biggest Hiking Fail: Having leaky walking boots (and complaining about them!) for several months when I joined the club

Welfare Sec

Name: Immie Wadlow (she/her)

Course: PhD in Atmospheric Science

Email: luuhc.welfare@gmail.com

Hometown: Sydney, Australia

Favourite Hike: The Magical Mystery Tour in Northumberland - some beaut coasts, castles, and an abundance of dog-patting opportunities. 

Favourite Hiking Snack: Malt loaf supremacy 

Biggest Hiking Fail: Discovering the importance of re-waterproofing your gear on a particularly soggy Sunday in the Lakes

 

General Committee

Name: Dan Stapley (he/him)

Course: Natural Sciences

Hometown: Ashbourne, Derbyshire

Favourite Hike: The Glyders

Favourite Hiking Snack: Ginger biscuits and flapjack

Biggest Hiking Fail: Taking the dog on a 4-day wild camp but he couldn't manage it and we had to carry him!

 
Group photo of the committee