Trip reports

Borrowdale Meet Report

With fine weather promised for the end-May bank holiday weekend, many people made their way to the Borrowdale Chapel House Farm Camp Site, to enjoy the second-to-none climbing and walking opportunities on offer in the northern Lake District. Wendy and John (Chuck) arrived Thursday night. On Friday they climbed at […]

Cornwall May 2016

By Alix Dees It was a good idea of the committee to move the Cornwall meet to May from Easter, to try to ensure warmer conditions than the arctic ones endured in recent years. And although it looked as though the weather was determined to undermine this cunning plan by […]

Scottish Meet Report – Cairngorms – 24 -28 March 2016

There was much anticipation in the weeks leading up to the Easter Scottish MMC meet as right up to 10 days before there were full winter conditions.   However it had warmed up quite a bit in those 10 days but still lots of snow and ice on the higher parts […]

Mid-Wales Meet Report

Meet report by Sarah Waldram A select group, Anna Vojnits, Adriano Kalaj, Sarah Glover, Miguel Ruiz (new to club), Marcin Dawydzik (new to club) and Sarah Waldram, braved M40 disruption to reach the village of Dinas Mawddwy in southern Snowdonia in the early hours. The hut, owned by Solihull Mountaineering […]

Brecon Beacons Annual Dinner Meet

Meet report by Alix Harrower In stark contrast to the meet report for Yorkshire in September, by late November in South Wales, we were catapulted into winter conditions. The meet was fully subscribed at 24, based at the Cantref bunkhouse right at the foot of the ‘Three Peaks’ of Pen […]

Western Peaks

Meet report by Chuck The Indian summer that gave us such sparkling weather in Yorkshire gave way to a very English autumn at the Roaches. Nevertheless the promise of at least one day’s climbing and the lure of a bunkhouse proved attractive and thumping number of MMC members turned up […]