07-14 September – Raeburn Hut, Laggan
The Raeburn hut is one of the Scottish Mountaineering Club huts situated on General Wade’s military road between Dalwhinnie and Laggan. It has gas heating and good access West and East for mountaineering and climbing.
Continue reading22-27 August – Caerfai Farm campsite – St Davids
With a great weather forecast the group were looking forward to enjoying some serene sea cliff climbing and making use of the Range West briefings attended by some earlier in the year to access the restricted MOD climbing in Castlemartin Range.
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Friday 20 – Hollentalanger Hutte
Alan, Dan, Malcolm, Peter, Gill and Rob parked up in Hammersbach and walked up the Hollental gorge – an amazing super narrow deep river gorge combined with mining museum – up to the Hollentalanger Hutte (DAC). There we spent the night – they very kindly gave us a group room.
21-28 May
In 2017 Gill attempted and didn’t summit Mt Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa. This was due to lack of acclimatisation on an organised trip. Gill decided to put a strong team together and try again with lots of moral support. Early in 2024 discussions began and Gill researched a company who offered a longer itinerary with more suitable acclimatisation hikes on the way up. She found and booked Lakeland Mountain Guides, for whom her friend Felicity works as a guide.
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Was an absolutely great weekend. Plenty of fun to have been had by all.
Nice! Shows you can never predict the weather
Alan, Dave and Michelle recently volunteered with the BMC Mend our Mountains initiative to clear some invasive Rhododendron bushes from…
Hello all - we had a great trip to Scotland in September. Yes the weather was variable but we moved…
Great trip and some quality climbs. And some extensive abseil practise!