Meet in Fronwydyr for a splendid Welsh June outing, climbing, scrambling, running, scouting as per your personal preference and join in some post-climbing curry dinner brought to you by your favourite curry crew - volunteers welcome!

The LMC annual endurance weekend at Fronwydyr, this year celebrating it's 30th Anniversary!

Start and finish from the hut climbing all 14 peaks over 3,000ft in North Wales. It is a monster day out, but there should be plenty of daylight. And complete the challenge in under 15 hours you'll get a bottle of champers.

A successful Champagne Challenge also requires team support to rescue the exhausted. Anyone interested in assisting, please let the meet steward know.

Fingers crossed for good weather, and maximum daylight during the longest day of the year.

6 additional spaces booked at the Vagabonds hut 2 mins up the road from Fronwydyr

Some insights on the challenge can be viewed here.

Now in its 18th year!

Started by Ralph Hale back in 2008, the Gritstone Gallop follows in the great tradition of the Rock and Ice club who apparently used this event for their pre-Alpine training, in days of yore.

The 'Gallop' is about 12-14 miles in length, and is done entirely on foot (and hands!). It starts in the High Neb area of Stanage in the Peak District and ends at Birchens Edge, a route is climbed on every edge/crag on the way - 12 in total!

The full Gallop is a long day, finishing up in the Robin Hood Inn near Birchen and the Heathy Lea hut. But you're welcome to cut it short as you wish.

If you plan on doing the whole thing and getting to the Robin Hood in time for dinner then an early start is recommended as the chef definintely doesn't like working late!

Your grade for the 'Gallop' is the lowest grade you climb in the day, and the more crags you climb, the more beers you are allowed in the Robin Hood Inn.... if you make it before closing time!

Accomodation

Heathy Lea hut, near Baslow https://www.oread.co.uk/huts/heathy-lea/
12 bunks booked for the Friday and Satruday night plus an optional 8 in the barn.

Payment

Bunks: 12.50 pppn
Barn: £7.00 pppn

Payment should be made shortly after the meet via the button on the LMC payments page. Please slect the correct payment button depending on whether you end up in a bunk in the main hut, or in the barn. We have the whole hut booked but only need to pay for the number of places we use.

Cancellation policy

Since payment is required only after the meet, if you can't make it then just cancel your place on the meet to make your space avilable to someone else.

Full Gallop crag list

Stanage - High Neb
Stanage - Plantation
Stanage - Popular
Burbage North
Burbage South
Millstone
Lawrencefield
Frogatt
Curbar
Baslow
Gardoms
Birchen

MEET FULL, BUT A WAITING LIST HAS BEEN SET UP. If a place does become available, please reimburse the person you replace directly for the hut fees and instructors' expenses (see below). The meet steward will be able to advise who this is.

DESCRIPTION

A weekend introduction to multi-pitch trad climbing led by club members Will Green, Richard Holdsworth and Iain Marr: all qualified rock climbing instructors (RCI award).

AIMS
To develop a solid foundation in multi-pitch rock climbing techniques, whilst leading a variety of rock climbs.

PRE-REQUISITES
This course is for climbers with some experience of leading single pitch climbs.

IS IT FOR ME?
Gain the skills required to climb independently with a peer on multi-pitch mountain routes. This will be run on a one instructor to two participants ratio (1:2) aiming to meet participants' personal aims and pitch it at a level appropriate to each individual’s stage of development.

CONTENT
Main topics:
· Building on your rock climbing skills
· Refining gear placement and rope management
· Safe abseiling and retreating from a climb
· Stance management on multi-pitch climbs
· Guidebook interpretation and route finding skills

LOGISTICS
The course is on the Saturday and Sunday in North Wales with participants travelling up on the Friday night and returning Sunday late afternoon/evening.
Accommodation is at Fronwydyr, the LMCs hut in Eryri
Please let us know if you're driving by selecting the correct options when you sign up so that passengers can request lifts via the automated system on this webpage.
The cost of instruction is free but the usual hut fees of £8 pppn and £23 to cover the instructors' hut and petrol expenses are required on sign up.
Ropes and gear (nuts, cams etc) will be provided but participants will need to bring their own harness, helmet, belay device and climbing shoes.

Location: Fronwydyr (LMC hut in Eryri)

This meet is primarily aimed at those that will be attending the main Alps meet in Switzerland, but other club members that want to learn alpine climbing skills are welcome.

Some of the more experienced alpine climbers in the club will be offering informal guidance and demonstrating some of the specific skills and techniques that are required to climb in the alps.

This includes:
crevasse rescue
taking coils
moving together

Weather permitting, the majority of the time will be spent practising 'moving together' by climbing easy multipitch rock routes or hard scrambles in simul climbing fashion, placing and removing gear as we go. It is assumed that any participants wishing to do this element will already know how to place gear and build belays and are capable of leading at least VDiff. If not, and you're reading this in the winter or spring, there's plenty of time to learn that before the meet.

Participants should bring a harness, belay device, approach shoes, climbing shoes, B2 boots if they want to practise climbing in these for the Alps, and a helmet. A couple of slings and screwgate carabiners are also useful to bring if people have them.

The experienced alpine climbers on the meet will bring ropes, gear and crevasse rescue specific equipment.

Trad, sport climbing and walking on the sea cliffs of Dorset.

Camping at Tom's Field Campsite
https://www.tomsfieldcamping.co.uk

Please book your own pitch. We'll be congregating in the "Top Ridge Area" area near pitch 34.

Book early to avoid dissapointment as the campsite gets fully booked in the summer.

Acton Field campsite can be used as a overflow if people sign up to the meet last minute and Tom's Field is full.
https://www.actonfieldcampsite.co.uk/

MEET FULL BUT A WAITING LIST HAS BEEN ADDED.

If places become available, those replacing people who drop out can reimburse them the £288 accommodation fees directly.

Great valley cragging, alpine rock, 4000ers, and a north face that some may have heard of.

13 separate bunks/beds booked in a large house/appartement in Meringen, Bernese Oberland.

https://www.gruppenhaus.ch/en/house/holiday_hostel/aspen/1509

The house has a fully equipped kitchen, large living room area, garden and BBQ. It also boasts 3 toilets, 3 showers and 4 washrooms.

Cost is £36.00 per person per night. Full payment is required on sign up and accommodation fees are non-refundable. But if you need you cancel your place you're welcome to try and find someone to replace you (or if the meet fills up there may be a waiting list to draw from).

Guidebooks
Alpine climbing - The 4000m Peaks of the Alps (Martin Moran)
Rock Climbing - Schweiz Plaisir West and Schweiz Plaisir Ost
A Rockfax for the Bernese Oberland is being developed that will have both Alpine and rock climbing in it. There's a chance it may be ready in time.

For a flavour of what's on offer:

rock climbing https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/destinations/grimsel_pass-201873

Alpine climbing
https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/hut_to_hut_in_the_bernese_oberland-5375

A meet at the club's hut in Eryri

BBQs , charcoal and fire lighters will be provided. Just bring some food to cook

A family friendly long weekend in South Wales that all members are welcome to attend. Sea cliffs, sandy beaches and a short drive from London. There is something for everyone.

Camping at the Pitton Cross campsite near Rhossili
https://www.pittoncross.co.uk/

Good trad, sport climbing and coastal walks in the area.

Make your own booking with the campsite and inform the meet steward. Possibility to extend the stay either side of the weekend.

Guidebooks:
Rockfax South Wales Sport Climbs (book and app)
Rockfax Pembroke and Gower Trad (book and app)
Gower Rock: Selected Climbs (book)

Staying at the Alpine Club's George Starkey Hut in Patterdale, at the foot of Helvellyn.

22 bunks booked for Friday 22nd to Monday 25th August

£20 per person per night.

Bookings are non-refundable, but if you need to drop out you're welcome to find someone else to take your place and reimburse you the hut fees directly.

Participants are welcome to stay an extra day or so either side of the meet if they want. Please let the meet steward know if you do this and we can arrange an additional payment to the Alpine Club for any extra nights.

A club meet at the hut in Eryri

PLEASE SIGN UP AND PAY THE ACCOMMODATION DEPOSIT BY THE END OF JUNE IF YOU INTEND TO COME

Based in/around Cortina, an abundance of incredible rock and alpine climbing, via ferrata and hiking in the beautiful dolomites.

ACCOMODATION
Please pay the accommodation deposit by the end of June so that we can reserve accomodation in advance before it all gets booked up.

TRAVEL
Airport Venice Marco Polo is the best option for flying based on firstly travel convenience and price. It's a 2 hour drive away from Cortina.

ROUTES
We’re spoilt for choice of where to climb in cortina.

Cinque Torri has a range of excellent cragging, multi pitch trad and via feratta across all the grades from 3-8.

GUIDEBOOKS
Rockfax dolomites is available in print and on the Rockfax app.

As well, Falesie a Cortina d'Ampezzo contains many crags not contained in the Rockfax version.

A meet at the club hut in Eryri

Celebrate Guy Fawks night at the hut, watching a local fireworks display.

A long weekend of bolt clipping in the sunshine.

It's likely that we will go to Calpe again staying in the ever-popular Villa Perles.

More details to be added during June.

Chance to sharpen your map reading and navigation skills - both by day and night. Suitable for novice navigators and wizard-like wanderers. This year with new helpers - and new ideas!

We will to focus on using maps, and then go out on the hill to practice navigation. We will all make use of traditional navigation (using a compass, the map and looking around!), and also discuss use of GPS-based devices.

Bookings open on 1 September, and will be limited to ten participants. We will organise a communal meal on the Saturday night (I'll be looking for a volunteer co-ordinator). The meet fees include an extra amount to pay for the communal meal.

Refunds in the case of participants cancelling are at discretion of meet steward.

Staying in the Youth Hostel in Cogne

Full Details TBC

This meet it best suited to experienced winter climbers.

5 Nights at the CIC hut situated at the foot of the North Face of Ben Nevis. The UK's premier winter climbing crag and home to a huge range of routes including many classics!

The hut is booked from the Sunday to the Friday morning so it's recommended to travel up on the Saturday, stay at the Fort William Backpackers' hostel, and then use Sunday to walk up to the hut with food and gear for the week and ideally do a climb that day as well. Every year there's talk of staying on after the Friday, but in recent memory this has never actually happened. 5 days straight of climbing and staying at the hut is normally enough to sate the rat.

The CIC hut is basic. It has a kitchen, toilets, running water and drying room, but no shower. For details on facilities, and the hut more generally, see https://www.smc.org.uk/huts/cic.

All gear and food needs to be taken up on foot from the Ben Nevis North Face Car Park which takes around 2hrs 30 mins and is a real slog. But once you're there, there are relatively short walk-ins to all the climbs on the North Face.

Early march is typically a good time for ice routes on Ben Nevis so you're likely to get more out of this meet if you're happy on this surface and can climb at least Scottish grade III, but there are enough easier routes to fill a week also. This meet is not recommended for those that favour winter walking as options for that activity are very limited.

The cost of a bed in the hut is £26 p.p.p.n. The full cost of £130 is payable on sign up. Unfortunately due to high demand for the CIC hut in the winter season the Scottish Mountaineering Club cannot offer refunds in the event of cancellation. If you need to cancel your place then please find someone else to take it and transfer you the money.

Guidebook: Scottish Winter Climbs - SMC (available in paperback or to download on the Rockfax app)

Scottish Winter Climbs West - Scottish Mountaineering Club

Travel to Ben Nevis: The drive is about 10 hours from London and can easily be done in a day.

The Misty Isle beckons for another LMC adventure, our 3rd in a row.

We have 9 beds booked in the Glenbrittle Youth Hostel for the first 9 bookers - everyone thereafter will have to reserve their own bed at the hostel. There’s also the Glenbrittle Memorial Hut a minute’s drive away, and the Glenbrittle campsite at the end of the valley. Just remember your midge nets!

The youth hostel is well situated with a beach and the famous Fairy Pools nearby, and has parking and a drying room on site.

There will be opportunities for walking into famous sites such as Corrie Lagan, as well as fantastic climbs on the Cioch as well as the Cuillin Ridge itself.

Cost of accommodation is £28 pppn. The full cost (£168) is payable on sign up.

Book early to avoid disappointment - and don’t forget your midge nets!

CANCELLATION TERMS

Although the hostel does offer refunds for individual bookings as long as cancelled 24h or more before arrival, due to the charge this incurs, we strongly recommend finding someone to take your place on the meet instead.

This meet it best suited to experienced winter climbers.

5 Nights at the CIC hut situated at the foot of the North Face of Ben Nevis. The UK's premier winter climbing crag and home to a huge range of routes including many classics!

The hut is booked from the Sunday (16th Feb) to the Friday (21st Feb) morning so it's recommended to travel up on the Saturday (15th Feb) and then use Sunday to walk up to the hut with food and gear for the week and ideally do a climb that day as well

The CIC hut is basic. It has a kitchen, toilets, running water and drying room, but no shower. For details on facilities, and the hut more generally, see https://www.smc.org.uk/huts/cic.

All gear and food needs to be taken up on foot from the Ben Nevis North Face Car Park which takes around 2hrs 30 mins and is a real slog. But once you're there, there are relatively short walk-ins to all the climbs on the North Face.

Late Feb is slightly earlier that previous years, however the hut is in high demand and already booked out. This time of year is typically a good time for ice routes on Ben Nevis so you're likely to get more out of this meet if you're happy on this surface and can climb at least Scottish grade III. This meet is not recommended for those that favour winter walking as options for that activity are very limited.

The cost of a bed in the hut is £28 p.p.p.n. The full cost of £140 is payable on sign up. Unfortunately due to high demand for the CIC hut in the winter season the Scottish Mountaineering Club cannot offer refunds in the event of cancellation. If you need to cancel your place then please let the meet steward know asap. They can help find someone else to take your place (who will transfer you the money), though replacements aren't guaranteed and you will be liable for the costs if replacements can't be found.

Guidebook: Scottish Winter Climbs - SMC (available in paperback or to download on the Rockfax app)

Scottish Winter Climbs West - Scottish Mountaineering Club

Travel to Ben Nevis: The drive is about 10 hours from London and can easily be done in a day.

Please reach out to the meet steward (Will Osborn) if you have any questions prior to signing up.