Remembering Rick Allen Rick Allen (Arthur to his many friends in the Stoats young and old) didn’t win his Piolet d’Or for this 1977 ascent of the clock tower in the
Trip Reports Learn to Trad Trip The evening before the trip, the forecast wasn't looking all too good. We'd heard reports of a foot of snow in some parts of the Peaks, and none of the weather forecasters could agree on whether it would be snow and wind, or sun all day.
Info A Letter from the MAM The Midlands Association of Mountaineers are our 'parent' organisation, taking on many ex-stoats after they graduate. Read on to find out why you should join!
Info Standard Kit List Generally you should aim to pack everything you need for the day of climbing into a sturdy rucksack, a good capacity is 30-40 liters and your overnight stuff into another bag.
Trip Reports Scotland 2019-20 Day 0 (Saturday - The Journey Up)After the classic DIlshad's curry people are less and raring to go when we are scheduled to meet at 7:45am. A somewhat
Trip Reports Richard Horridge: Scotland Many thanks to Richard for letting us share this on our site, it's a great read for a summary of what Scotland can be like!
Trip Reports Navigation Day Our excellent guide, Tom, went through a lot of fundamentals of navigation with the group: pacing to measure distances, bearings, travelling over difficult ground, identifying features on the ground and navigation in poor visibility.
Trip Reports Roaches Trip 2019 Our recent excursion to The Roaches was marketed to be the biggest and best trip of the year and boy did it deliver; the sun was shining (through dense fog)
Trip Reports Curbar Day Trip On Saturday 30th a small group of elite stoats spent the day braving the outdoors at Curbar. The day started rough with the minibus frozen over, delaying departure for a
Trip Reports Low House 2019 The second trip of the year took us up to the Lake District, to experience trad in some of the prettiest locations in the country.
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Trip Reports Ogwen 2019 Ogwen, the trip that is known for being one of the wettest, surprised us this year with some climbable weather! The weekend started poorly with a disappointing viewing of the
Trip Reports Stanage 2019 Stanage is perhaps the most highly anticipated trip of the semester, a trip which combines UBMC’s love of trad with its other love; alcohol. This year Stanage was perhaps
Trip Reports Summer Trip! - Cornwall 2019 Whilst the stoats annual summer trip had a damp start (and end), once we arrived in good old Cornwall the weather picked up for most of the week! Most of
Trip Reports Brutiful Birmingham Bouldering A very successful day of bouldering yesterday! Thanks to Brutiful Birmingham for inviting us to come along and climb on these amazing William Mitchell structures, and thanks to all from the club who came.
Trip Signups Summer Alpine Course Information & Sign ups We have been very lucky to have been given some funding by the MAM, Phil Jardine & Oliver Birkill to run a Alpine Skills Course in the actual Alps this
Trip Reports Ropeworks 2019 What started as a sunny day soon turned into pouring rain! Still a fantastic day learning some really important stuff on the rope works course with Rock and Water Adventures
Trip Signups Summer Trip - Cornwall 2019!!! As exams draw near, you needn't fear, as summer trip, is nearly here...!! That's right, UBMC's summer trip is just around the corner! This year we will be camping in
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Trip Reports Annual Dinner Trip 2019 Opposition emerged against the ancient army of UBMC before the trip even commenced. A pretty grim weather report shrouded the trip with memories of past Annual Dinner’s where rain
Trip Reports Stanage 2018 Our Stanage trip this year was a great success and the first weekend where good weather was enjoyed on both days! (as promised by the Supreme Commander of British Weather,
