Saturday 25th Feb Mick Fowler is giving a talk at the Imperial Rooms, Matlock at 6.45 pm. Theevening is a fundraising event, including a raffle, for a small charity 65 DegreesNorth https://www.65degreesnorth.co.uk/ that helps to rehabilitate injured veteransthrough adventurous challenges.Mick’s enthralling presentation, ‘No Easy Way’, covers his more recent thrillingadventures in the mountains and also […]

Thursaday, 23rd Feb. 2023 Please note this walk is a week later than usual. Meet at 10.45am for an 11.00am start in the car park at Calke Abbey, Ticknall, (National Trust members free)and walk through the lovely parkland of Calke in a circuit passing the old limeworkings and through the tunnel (Head torch) stopping at […]

Tuesday 21 February 8.00 pm The penultimate Zoom event this season will be based on a ramshackle set ofphotos from sunny climbing locations interspersed with a few via ferrate (aconfession, I used Google to check on the plural!). Many of us have heard ofmeccas such as the Costa Blanca and Kalymnos but never visited and […]

Sat. 18th February 2023 Having completed the southern half of the Gritstone Trail, we now resume theproject to commence the northern half.Meet at 10:00 am for a 10:15 departure at Trentabank Reservoi:r OS Explorer268 Wilmslow / Macclesfield / Congleton; GR 962712. Public loos, roadsideparking free.The route is as follows: Trentabank, Bottoms Reservoir (near Langley), TeggsNose, […]

Tuesday 7 February 2023, 8 pm, Royal Oak Ockbrook Paul Bingham will give us an introduction to how his birding interest developed from times in the hills and mountains, culminating in a look at trends and changes during his 20 years of Upland BreedingBird Surveys for the British Trust for Ornithology on Kinder Scout and […]

Reiff Rogue Meet – Jubilee Bank Holiday week 2012 Dave Mawer. “Roll up roll up, for the ultimate alpha male contest! For one night only, the Middleton Ox versus the Southwell Silver back…….” This will be one of the many memories I will treasure from the Reiff Rogue meet 2012. Most of you will agree […]

Wdnesday 1st February 2023 Walk: Cromford to Matlock   Time: Wednesday 1st February 10.00 a.m. start Walk Leader: Rachel Walker Meeting point: Cromford Market Place outside the Greyhound Free parking: Cromford Market Place or the Lime Yard to the left of the Community Centre (across the road from the Market Place) Public transport: Buses from […]

3rd to 4th February 2023 We have 12 places available at Milehouse Cottage, near Kingcraig.The LSCC hut, situated in the Cairngorms national park, has good facilities and easy access to the Scottish mountains.A chance to get your crampons and axes out.For more info about the cottage: https://www.ladiesscottishclimbingclub.org/huts/milehouse-cottage/To book your place contactRob Beck

The BMC have been doing monthly city insight videos and this month Sheffield was featured. For those in the club that focus their attention on the south end of the peaks and Derby/Notts this video should be the perfect reminder that Winter Wall Wednesdays are back on and the next session in Sheffield is at […]

A select group of Oreads enjoyed a mostly hot and sunny two weeks in the Chamonix valley. After prolonged hot and dry weather throughout July the high mountains were out of condition; though Mick and Kasia managed to grab an ascent of the Tete Blanche at the start of the trip. However with plenty still […]