For any questions about these meets, current members can contact Bookings Secretary via the e-mail address given in the monthly E-News. Non-members please contact the Membership Secretary via the Contacts page of this site). Please follow the guidelines ‘How to Book’ and ‘On the Meet’ in every newsletter and on this Website under News/Special Information/Meet Booking Information. In particular, could you please bring appropriate maps on every meet you attend. For each meet I have listed the maps that are most likely to be useful, but the list isn’t exhaustive, sometimes people will visit an area covered by an adjacent map, and it’s up to each member to have the correct maps for his/her chosen route.

Prospective Members - please see further information at the bottom of this page.....
 

Julie is planning to spend up to a week camping on Skye – mostly Glen Brittle but also hopefully a night on Loch Scavaig – in the week before our ‘official’ Scotland Week in Kintail (see below). Primary aim likely to be walking and scrambling in the Cuillin. For anyone not familiar with Highlands, Skye is just across the bridge from Kintail so the two venues are a good fit for anyone who fancies a week, or just a few days, on Skye before the Kintail week. This is not intended as a formal Club meet, but Julie has asked me to let you know that she will be around there; if anyone is interested in joining Julie please contact her for more info.

Scotland Spring Week, May 25 – June 1, Glenshiel, Kintail. Cost in the region of £100 per person for 7 nights accommodation

Scotland Spring Week, May 25 – June 1, Glenshiel, Kintail. Cost £110 per person for 7 nights accommodation

Sandy has booked a large house near Shiel Bridge, very close to the spectacular Saddle and Five Sisters. Based on numbers to date, the cost will be £110 each. For those who have signed up, Sandy will be in touch separately about payment. If there is enough further interest we might be able to explore other options (price to be determined based on what is available), so drop Sandy a line if you would like to join the meet.

 
Scotland Wild Camping Trip, starting June 1.

Julie and a couple of other members are in the process of putting together a wild camping trip going to Loch Arkaig/Glen Dessarry/possibly Loch Quioch. This will be tagged onto the end of the Kintail trip so that anyone on the Kintail trip can join in if they want and anyone not involved with the Kintail trip can come up separately. Starting Saturday 1st June and continuing “until weather, midges or lack of food force us out!” Please contact Julie for more info.

June 28 - 30: Camping, Ogwen Valley, North Wales.

Our traditional mid-summer meet in the Ogwen Valley, under Tryfan. Wide range of options for walking and scrambling on the Glyders and Carneddau.

 July 12 –14, Camping, Shropshire / Welsh Borders (ie Panpunton)

Our regular, and, it seems, invariably popular visit to Panpunton near Knighton, literally on the Welsh Border (you have to cross the border to reach the pub). Walking on the Shropshire Hills – the best stretches of the Offa’s Dyke Path run either side of the site - or remote hills on the Welsh side of the border including the Radnor Hills.

Aug 2 – 4, Fell End Bunkhouse near Sedbergh.

Fell End Bunkhouse, near Sedbergh. 14 places @£25 each

Pleasant bunkhouse under the eastern side of the Howgill Fells on the western edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Plenty of nearby walking options in The Dsales and Howgills; or the eastern Lakes also within reach.


Aug 30 – Sept 1, Camping, Black Mountains (ie South Wales)

Campsite venue to be confirmed; thinking of Llanthony – the site alongside the bunkhouse we’ve used on past occasions, which is in a spectacular location in the middle of the Black Mountains. Pubs nearby. Fine walking in all directions on the Black Mountains., or the Brecons are accessible with a short drive.

Sept 20 – 22, Yorkshire Dales, Airton Quaker Hostel. 12 places @ £30 each.

Small bunkhouse in the Dales village of Airton. On the Pennine Way a few miles south of Malham, one of the best known areas of the Dales. Excellent walking, a chance to see Malham Cove, Goredale Scar.

Oct 18 – 20, Caban Cader Idris. Details to follow.

Nov 22 – 24, Coniston, Yorks MC Hut.  Details to follow.

Information for Prospective Members

This information is provided to give people who may be considering joining the Club a summary of STMC’s meets for the next few months. This also gives an idea of the range of the venues that we normally visit; in February we normally have a week of winter mountaineering in Scotland, and we organise a further week in Scotland at the end of May. The Club does not normally arrange overseas trips, but groups of members often get together to arrange trips to the Alps or the Pyrenees.

All meets provide opportunities for walking, whilst in North Wales and the Lakes there will often be a party doing some scrambling. Many areas also provide opportunities for technical climbing, notably the Peak District (on the gritstone edges) and North Wales. But if you’re not interested in climbing don’t worry, climbing-only meets are a rarity and there will virtually always be people on the meet to walk with. The only meet where we impose a restriction on attendance is the Scotland Winter Week, where it would normally be dangerous to go out on the hills unless you are equipped with ice axe and crampons, and have some experience in their use. The winter meets in North Wales and the Lakes sometimes, but by no means always, coincide with serious snow and ice conditions, but there are usually lower routes that you can do if you don’t have ice axe and crampons.

People are expected to be suitably equipped for their chosen routes and the conditions – usually this just means warm clothing, decent waterproofs and boots, plus food and drink – click on Equipment for more info. The only other requirement is that we do expect everyone to have appropriate maps, so that no-one is just totally depending on someone else to do the route finding and map reading.

Each meet has an assigned ‘meet secretary’, whose contact details are provided to members. The meet secretary’s role is to arrange lifts to and from the meet, and access to the accommodation (but not to lead or organise routes in the hill). The procedure for booking onto a meet is simply to contact the meet secretary.