The plan was simple; go climbing. Guide books were looked at and routes identified. It was going to be awesome…WE were going to be awesome. I was so excited to be going to the Lake District with other psyched AMC members. I was going cragging!! However, our adventure was to be of a different kind….. […]
Trips
An Adventure on the Forbes Arête
On the walk in to the hut the plan was fairly simple, climb a couple of easy routes to get feel for the conditions, and avoid any epics. The Refuge Albert Premier perches on the edge of the Glacier du Tour, with great views across the ice to the sounding peaks. Most of the features looked […]
Pembroke, August Bank Holiday, 2021
AMC trip to South Pembroke 27 – 30 August, Alastair Kelleher A bit late in the organising but 7 AMC members headed west to make the most of the Bank Holiday weekend with a few days in South Pembroke. Arriving late on Friday, we all managed to find each other on a busy Bosherston campsite […]
Liquid sunshine Tour 2021 aka North Wales Meet
From 6th to the 9th July 2021 the club held a meet to the Ogwen Valley in North Wales, based in the Gwern Gof Uchaf campsite under Tryfan. An old testament bad weather forecast the week before meant the numbers were severely depleted(read on though, we did do some climbing) Even so Matt L, Max, […]
Culm Trip Report July 2021
From 23-25 July 2021 the AMC held a climbing meet based at Bryder Farm Campsite near Bude. On Friday Matt L and I made it down for around low tide, midday, and headed straight for Black church rock. One of my personal objectives for the trip was sacre coeur, an immaculate slab route on the […]
Women’s Peak District trip 2nd-4th July
Friday Maria, Esther and Isabel headed up early on Friday for a day of trad at Bamford Edge – low grade stuff including some solos and some leads for Issy and Esther. Polly and Emma headed up to Stoney West for an afternoon of sport climbing. Unfortunately after climbing just 1 route, an incident with […]
June Dartmoor Trip
With the summer here and campsites opening up again, June was time for the club to make a return to Dartmoor. Those of us blessed with more flexible working arrangements were able to make the most of the good weather on the Friday and head down early. Lizzie and I met Alastair at Torquay to […]
Swanage 11th July
Sunday 11th July, and after some head scratching over forecasts and lifts, Owen, Matt, Lisa, Jamie and Helen left Bristol at 7(ish) with a plan to climb seacliff trad at Subluminal Area swanage. A great intro area for sea cliff climbing, with some gnarly stuff nearby. And a trip down memory lane for some of […]
Cornwall 22nd-23rd May 2021
For the first time this year the campsites were open and we could get away as a group, and where better to go than the mecca of traditional climbing than West Penwith in Cornwall. Despite an unfavourable weather forecast, we headed down on the Friday, I was free of work so went down in the […]