The week leading up to Annual Dinner the UK was hit with Storm Eunice, uprooting trees on the green heart and hurling wheelie bins across Selly. As a result, we had to delay the trip by a night as we would have been leaving in the peak of the storm.

On Friday evening, it seemed as though the journey to Ogwen might be a tad uncomfortable for backseat passengers with ice axes and crampons to transport! Luckily, all was solved when Old Git Noah gave us a helping hand, providing space in his van. For many stoats, it was their

North gate was full by 7am on Saturday morning by excited Stoats and a load of Aussie Rules players also waiting for their transport. We left just as the sun came up and began our surprisingly quick journey to Trevor Quarry in North Wales. Once we had all arrived, even

Saturday's weather was not super promising, so we had an efficient start to avoid the rain, with one group going to Little Tryfan to do multi-pitch climbing and another to Craig Caseg Fraith. A few climbs were fitted in by everyone before the rain hit at lunchtime, when everyone scurried

Stanage is arguably one of the largest and most hectic trips of the year, kicking off the start of term with a bang, and throwing freshers in at the deep end with a weekend packed full of climbing rocks and wrestling for socks! This year marked the return of our

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.

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), the rock was dry (it wasn’t) and the psyche – as always – was high. Unfortunately, conditions weren’t good enough

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 while but we were soon on the road and ready to get climbing. Arriving at Curbar early and with temperatures

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.

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 rugby world cup final in the local pub however, it soon picked up with trad, walking, scrambling bouldering and sport

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 the biggest gathering of new stoats and old gits in history, and despite this new benchmark, the weather kept up

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 the weeks climbing was split between the two world renowned crags of Bosigran and Sennen. Many people got to experience

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.

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

A fantastic weekend sport climbing in sunny Portland!

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 had prevented all climbing (not that attendance at annual dinner is primarily for the climbing). Even as stoats new and

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, President ADL). Arriving at Thorpe Farm in thick fog the lively band of Stoats spent the evening browsing guidebooks and

Joint MAM MeetOn the Friday before the first weekend in November, the keen stoats who had managed to get in to the now infamous Ogwen sign ups gathered by the University of Birmingham Sports Pitches. In the rapidly approaching darkness all were bundled into cars and a very snug mini