For any questions about these meets, whether you're a current member or thinking of joining the Club, please contact the Bookings Secretary on
(but for general membership enquiries, 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.
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Aug 22 - 25, Bank Holiday Meet, Black Mountains, South Wales.
We’ll probably return to a pleasant small campsite near Abergavenny that Gareth discovered last year. Pub nearby. Short journey from London. Hillwalking in the Black Mountains or gentler walks in the Wye Valley; also climbing opportunities in the Wye Valley.
Suggested maps: Landranger 161 (and 162 for the Wye Valley)
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Sept 12 - 14, North Wales, Gloucester MC Hut at Deiniolen. 18 places @ £13 each.
Return visit to a pleasant hut near Llanberis, under the Glyders range. All the well-known Snowdonia walks and scrambles are easily accessible.
Suggested maps: Landranger 115; or Explorer (OL) 17 and 18.
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Sept 26 - 28, Dartmoor, The South Dartmoor Bunkhouse at Buckfastleigh. 16 places @ £14 each.
First visit to a newly opened hut at Buckfastleigh on the southeast side of the Moor. Most likely we’ll be walking on the Moor, though the S Devon Coast Path is also within reach.
Suggested maps: Landranger 202 or Explorer (OL) Darmoor sheet.
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Oct 17 - 19, Peak District, Thorpe Farm Bunkhouse near Hathersage. 14 places @ £22 each.
A good quality bunkhouse in the heart of the Peak District, close to climbing at Stanage Edge. For non-climbers, excellent walking on the Dark Peak.
Nov 7 - 9, Sedbergh (Howgills & East Lakes). Fell End Bunkhouse. 14 places @ £18 each.
Pleasant bunkhouse under the Howgill Fells on the western edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Plently of local walking options, or the Southeastern Lakes also within reach. Suggested maps: Landranger 97, 98, 91.
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Nov 28 - 30, North Wales, Tyddyn Farm bunkhouse. 18 places @ TBA each. Dinner £15.
Regular STMC venue, between Corwen and Betws. Walking in the main Snowdonia ranges or southwards to the Arenigs and Arans. Option of a pre-Xmas meal in the bunkhouse owner Lynda’s house.
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; other areas that we sometimes get to include South and Mid Wales and the Peak District, whilst our North Wales programme us often includes an annual meet at the National Mountain Centre at Plas y Brenin. 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.
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