welcome to our autumn newsletter 🙂 The club has had a busy summer of meets and individual trips. Week-night climbing continued through the summer at various venues, both sport and trad (traffic depending) until it got too dark to make it viable. Sadly we are retreating back indoors for our weeknight climbing now, although it […]
New members meet in Gorge D’Avon 😊
Just a few photos from last Saturdays new members meet. The weather window was good so we headed to Avon Gorge for some quick drying trad. Rich dragged George and I up Gronk, a very good lead. Paul and Leo arrived a bit later and also headed up Gronk. From Matts hand signals 70mt down […]
Chamonix Trip August 22
The AMC held a trip from 27th August to 10th Sept to Chamonix in the French Alps. At least that was the plan! Poor conditions reports and a flotilla of solo van drivers meant a measly four of us met at the perfectly positioned, but a bit rough Camping les Arolles in Cham. Next time […]
Skye 28th May-5th June 2022
With high hopes and low expectations of good weather Jamie and I, Jake, Kane, Mark and James all headed up to Skye for some jubilee fun, mountain style. Spotting a potentially small good weather window, Jamie and I headed straight up to bivvy at the start of the Cuilin ridge the day we arrived. Jake […]
AMC Summer Newsletter 2022
Welcome everyone to our Summer Newsletter. It does actually appear to be summer now!! Whether you are a trad climber, sport climber, boulderer, mountaineer or walker I hope that you have some wonderful days out planned for the summer ahead. NEWS….. We have a full calendar of meets running over the summer for you to […]
Cornwall 13th-15th May 2022
As the spring comes and with it the warmer weather, we get ready for the annual spring pilgrimage to Cornwall for Granite, Pasties and Cider. Friday To make the most of the weekend, I drove down on Friday morning with Steve Noble and headed straight to Bosigran with the Evil Eye (E5 6b) in my […]
Building a strong Mind in Kalymnos
Earlier this year I took the online Strong Minds course run by Hazel Findlay and Angus Kyle. This was a 6 week online course that focused on climbing mindset and how to develop a strong mindset in climbing to manage fear of falling, fear of failure or social fears around climbing. It was brilliant !! […]
Bulletin for New Joiners this summer
The committee are currently reviewing the clubs joining process for new people and have decided to pause new membership applications while this is ongoing. If you are an existing member who needs to renew or have previously been a member and would like to re-join then please email membership@avon-mc.org.uk If you are thinking of joining then […]
AMC Scotland Meet
The AMC Scottish winter trip returned in March after a siesta last year due to covid. Around 20 members made the long journey up north to the beautiful Ardervikie Estate, where we stayed in a series of cosy and well equipped cottages. Fort William and Aviemore were in easy striking distance by car, making it […]