Milton Keynes Mountaineering Club

The Milton Keynes Mountaineering Club was founded over twenty years ago and it currently has about forty members of many nationalities and aged from early twenties to late fifties, male and female, couples and singles. Members' interests include fellwalking, scrambling, rock-climbing (all grades up to E5), winter mountaineering, alpine walking and climbing, via ferratas, cross-country ski-ing, mountain biking and kayaking. Whatever your standard you are likely to find someone who matches it.

In case you have not already seen the advertisements, The Outdoors Show is at the NEC, Birmingham this weekend 14-16th March.

Full details, and discounted advance tickets (if it is not too late) can be found at www.theoutdoorsshow.co.uk or call 0844 415 4418

Graham

The new Redpoint Climbing Centre in Birmingham is now open. It is a bit further than Warwick but probably worth a look.

Nigel

The High Moss hut has been booked, in Seathwaite, Borrowdale (grid refs SD 237967). Some may remember we used it about 4 years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

If you a member of more than one BMC affiliated club it is possible to claim back additional subscriptions that are paid to the BMC. To do this please notify the BMC Membership Services Team at the BMC office in Manchester by either:

a) printing, completing and returning this form (multiplemembershiprefundform2008.pdf). At the bottom of the form, it states that if you claimed a refund in 2007, then you will automatically be refunded in 2008.
b) telephoning 0161 445 6111, stating which clubs you are presently affiliated to.

This Thursday (20th Dec) we have an extra pub meet before Christmas - and a chance to sing MKMC’s own selection of carols.

Great news, the Xmas meet is almost upon us.

For those that have not been before, aside from the spectacular mountains right on our doorstep, literally, we will also be providing a traditional Christmas dinner, complete with turkey, trimmings, puddings and wine. Should be more than enough to tempt you.

This years Xmas Meet is on the 7/8/9 December at Pen Ceunant Uchaf in North Wales.

Details of the hut can be found here.

It appears as though no-one is going to the Lakes this weekend, much to Dave’s dissapointment. Some will be climbing in the Peaks Saturday or Sunday if the weather is good enough.

We met again yesterday evening to continue the August Bank Holiday trip discussions. After much deliberating it went to the vote and the Vanoise National Park came out the winner. This closest airport is Grenoble.

Link to Vanoise National Park on Google Maps

Due to the possible/likely poor weather this weekend it was agreed, at the pub last night, that we would go to North Wales instead of Gower.

The chosen campsite is Dolgam. Most people are going up this afternoon or tonight. Contact Graham for arrangements and car sharing.

A number of members met at the Shoulder of Mutton yesterday evening to propose and discuss a suitable area/location for our August Bank Holiday trip … Although there wasn’t a final decision by the end of the evening, the suggestions were narrowed down to two main areas: the Tessin Area in Switzerland and the Ecrin/Vanoise National Parks in France. It was decided that some further research was required, particularly for the the Tessin area in Switzerland, to determine the extent of the available activities…. [more…]