Dia Dhuit!! (irish for hello…..)

It’s St.Paddys day next Thursday (17th), so we thought it would be fun to have a green beer or five at the Red Lion in Withington. We’re going to get there for around 7.30pm as I have a feeling it will be packed.

In case you’ve never been http://www.redlionpubmanchester.co.uk/ and apparently there will be live Irish music if you fancy a little drunken jig. Dressing up will also be highly approved of, many hats etc. can be purchased cheaply on Amazon for example…http://www.amazon.co.uk/Irish-Leprechaun-Beard-Patricks-Fancy/dp/B00388B0AA. Or at least wear something green

Remember, it’s AU tonight (9th March) so if you want to come down and help sell tickets that would be much appreciated! (its at Owens Park as usual!)

And, as per usual, Jabez Clegg on Thur from 8.30!

fheiceann tú go luath!

Cam and Fi xxx

This is an excerpt from Rock Over Climbing’s March Newsletter:

“We are now sponsoring Manchester University Mountaineering Club, we have taken 10 of their keenest climbers and are providing them with a 12 week structured personal training plan headed by Grant Bateman and delivered by Grant, Simon, Tom and Ryan. The bouldering team will be representing us at a variety of different competitions throughout the year and we aim to help them improve their results through coaching, training and support.”

Happy climbing everyone.

Rachel

Coming up this Tuesday (9th Nov), Cotswolds on Deansgate are running a small lecture by Ron Fawcett. The man is a legend; back in the day when climbing was proper (protection was crap, ropes were crap, harnesses were ball stranglingly painful and beer mats were used for bouldering pads) Ron put up loads of hard lines in the peak and in wales. He was one of the first British climbers to train specifically for climbing and one of the first to get sponsored. There will be many psycho tales to be heard as well as the opportunity to talk to the man himself about his deranged antics. Tickets are normally £8 but Cotswolds will give us 10 tickets for £5 pounds each if we get 10 people to come, first come first serve. Text me on 07786399426 if your interested.
Link to Ronny Boys web page: http://www.ronfawcett.com/

Honourable MUMC members,

I’m sure you’re already planning spending the weekend getting that FUNKY outfit sorted for next weekends Funkmasters trip, but of course we all need that regular climbing fix! So don’t forget that this monday is the clubs weekly visit to ROCKOVER CLIMBING WALL ! ! For those of you who haven’t been yet, ROCKOVER is a huge indoor bouldering wall (no roped climbing). Most club members turn up at the wall from 5.30pm onwards after lectures have typically finished, but the special discount price the club gets of £3.50 lasts all day and evening, so take advantage of that and go whenever is good for you!!

For directions and more info, please follow their link  www.rockoverclimbing.com

Kind regards,
Jack

xoxo

Hello Guys and Gals,

RIGHT. SO. This Thursday is the infamous MUMC pub crawl. Yes, you heard correctly- get excited. OK so here’s the plan…

7.00pm – Jabez Clegg (on Dover St behind the SU NatWest)
7.45pm – The Footage
8.15pm – The Pub
8.45pm – Revolution
9.15pm – Grand Central
9.45pm – The Font
10.30pm – SUBSPACE

So, we’ll meet in Jabez at seven, try and get there on time people, this is normally a really good night – line your stomachs well. This is a liquid only event. We’re winding up at subspace so bring your dancing shoes!! This is a great place to crack out your moves and lose any remaining dignity! If you’re not a big drinker come along, if only for the comic delight that is… our ‘Garden Dance Repertoire’ – supported by… ‘The Crab’… (you know who you are Glen Dweller!)

a man walked into Chicagos one day and asked for some digits… erm, yea, so here’re our numbers if you get lost on the night …

Big love and smooches

Cam and Fi xxxx

If you’re interested in rock climbing and mountaineering, either as someone looking to try it out for the first time or as an experienced climber, and are looking for cheap climbing trips and plenty of people to climb with then joining the mountaineering club is the right way to go. We are a large yet friendly club that aims to be as welcoming as possible to everyone, regardless of their climbing experience. With a calendar packed with opportunities for climbing and social events there is lots to look forward to, from our first pub crawl to the amazing 70′s themed weekend of Funkmasters to winter climbing in scotland right up to our end of year trip to cornwall.

During first semester we run a large number of meets to the Peak District, North Wales and the Lakes providing a great introduction to climbing at some amazing venues relatively close to Manchester, these trips are also a great way to meet other people to climb with. Over the winter we run a winter climbing skills course in Scotland, a trip heavily subsidised by the Athletic Union and so exceptionally good value for anyone attending.

The best way to sign up to MUMC is at the Athletic Union Welcome Fair during Freshers Week. We’ll have a stall set up staffed by club members all happy to answer any questions you may have about the club and the many benefits of joining.

The first meet of the year is to Froggatt Edge on the Sunday of Freshers Week, it’s a great day out followed by a pub meal and drinks. You’ll be able to sign up for this trip at the same time as you join the club, but be warned places fill up fast. On the first few Wednesdays of the year the club organises introductory sessions at Manchester Climbing Centre to help get you started inside; we will also be holding another introduction at the newly opened Rockover climbing wall on Monday the 4th October.

Club members meet every Thursday at Jabez Clegg, located on the road opposite Students Union, at 8.30pm for our weekly social and all are welcome.

Have a look around the site for a bit more information; the About Us and Freshers Info pages should be particularly useful. If you have any questions then feel free to contact us.

Welcome to MUMC
The Committee

Right Kids,

As journal editor for this year it is my job to collect submissions to include for publication in the MUMC Journal. The journal has been produced almost every year since 1929, a year after the foundation of the club, and we are keen to see this tradition continue. To record the highs and lows of climbing exploits. The adventures and epics of mountain exploration, and the excesses of the social calendar. To ensure that what happened at Funkmasters, does not stay at Funkmasters.

So please write something. Short or long, thoughtful or trivial. To share the gossip of this year, provide inspiration for next year, and intrigue for future years. All articles will be gratefully received.

Photos are also needed. So if you’ve any decent or telling shots, stick them on a pen drive or email me.

If newer members are unsure about the journal, or others are interested, I should be bringing some along on Thursday to Jabez Clegg for the next few weeks, so you can have a read.

I’d be grateful if submissions can be made by the end of May. Simple text documents will be fine.

Thanks

Nick

Hello all,

The coming May bank holiday weekend is drawing ever closer and this happily means that our yearly trip down to the sea cliffs of pembroke is near; I hope you are all incomprehensibly psyched for it. Let me first of all say that the pembroke skills session was held today and under the marvellous tuition of your safety sec Franco and his assisstant Matt Roper (who gave up valuable dogging time to attend) it was a successful afternoon chilling out in the park watching each other battling up ropes and I hope that everyone who attended now feels confident in their abseiling and prussiking techniques which will be of great use on this meet.

Now on to the particulars of the trip.

Buses- There will be 3 buses departing from OP on Friday afternoon/evening, attempts are being made to have an early bus leaving some time in the afternoon (though this is not definite as of yet), there will be a bus departing at 6:30pm and if there is sufficient requirement a late bus will be leaving at around 7:30pm.

Camping- We will be taking up our usual accomodation in a campsite/field in pembroke so tents are a necessity, please try and bring your own/arrange to share with someone else with a tent but if that is not possible please let me know by Tuesday 27th that you will be needing space in a club tent. Other items to bring are sleeping bags, roll mats if possible, a pillow if you wish, a portable stove if you plan to cook food and a head torches is a sensible thing to bring. The campsite has toilets nearby but no showers so I hope you enjoy the bodily odours of your fellow MUMC members.

Food- Buses will be stopping for fish and chips on the Friday night trip down and the Monday return journey and on the Saturday night the social secretaries will be arranging a BBQ for everyone. You will however need to sort your own breakfasts, lunches and one nights tea (that is tea the meal not the drink, learn the ways of the north). You may also wish to bring booze.

Price- All this can be yours for the very reasonable sum of £15 and that is to be paid to me by Thursday 29th at the latest, I will be at the pub tomorrow, the wall next Wednesday and the pub next Thursday. If you haven’t paid up by next Thursday you risk losing your place.

So e-mail me if you wish to go including the following bits of information: your name; whether you want the early, regular or late bus;whether you will be requiring a vegetarian option at the BBQ and whether you require the use of any club gear e.g helmets, harnesses. As I say you have until next Tuesday to send me a further e-mail about tents.

Yours in psychedness
Mike
New meets sec

I hope you’ve all had a great Easter holiday, and have managed some climbing during that time!

Whether that be camping out under a crag in the Lakes, drinking copious amounts of red wind while bouldering before its even 12pm!!, resorting to pitiful self-promotion of a new E8 first ascent in the Moors (But really, good work Franco!) or endlessly walking around the forrest in Font identifying every 8a there is and saying ‘that’ll go!’.

To the point!

This weekend is the Rucksac club meet. The Rucksac club are an old club that MUMC has had ties with for years, and each year we enjoy a joint meet with them, staying in their hut over the weekend in the Duddon valley. There is plenty of great walking and climbing of all grades close to the hut. See here: http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/map/#main

The mini-bus will leave OP car park at 7pm on friday evening and will return sometime in the evening on sunday.

You’ll need to bring:

Warm clothing

Waterproof clothing

Climbing equipment (let me know in your email if you’d like to borrow a harness or helmet)

Sleeping bag and roll-mat

Over night kit

Food for each day

The trip costs: £10

We’re taking 1 mini-bus, so that’s 12 spaces to fill including 2 drivers…

Send me an email if you’d like to go. And if your willing to drive as well!

jack.metcalfe@student.manchester.ac.uk

Thank you!

Muchos Love!!

Jack

Teams:
Man 1 – 2nd (654 points)
Man 2 – joint 8th (609 points)

Individual Mens:
Pete – joint 5th (228 points)
Rob – 9th (226 points)
Luke – joint 19th (212 points)
Borg – 40th (203 points)

Individual Womens:
Rachel – joint 4th (200 points)
Jo – joint 12th (194 points)

Well done everyone, you did good.

(Ta Rob for the results)

Hi all

The MUMC annual general meeting is set for Thursday the 18th of March at 7.30pm. It will be in Jabez Clegg.

During the meeting reports will be given by various committee members and there will be an opportunity to vote in a new committee. Slightly nearer the time I will send out an email with the agenda and a short description of each of the committee positions members can stand for.

All the best.

Matt.