Trip Reports Scotland 2019-20 Trip Report 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 mild morning to
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), the rock was
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 while but we
Trip Reports Low House 2019 Trip report 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.
Trip Reports Ogwen Trip report 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
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 the weeks climbing
Trip Reports Stanage trip report 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 the biggest gathering
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 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 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 had prevented all
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, President ADL). Arriving
Trip Reports OGWEN 2018 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
Trip Reports TREMANAGE - Tremadog 2018 As the autumn sun set on the University of Birmingham pitches and the rain lashed down a group of surprisingly chipper students convened to make the wet and windy journey to Tremadog, the
Trip Reports Scotland 2017-2018 This years Scotland Trip was undoubtedly the best for good weather climbing conditions in aeons. With snow being spotted as far south as the Lake District and only increasing in volume as the
Trip Reports Stanage 2017 Stanage; A trip designed to introduce freshers to the marvels of British trad climbing, and what better way to do that than by dragging them up low quality routes in the pouring rain
Trip Reports Scotland 2015/2016 “Red badger to flying stoat…”Day 1: Return of the StoatsAwaking early on an unnervingly warm winter’s day, an eager group of stoats descended upon the Munrow to make the annual pilgrimage
Trip Reports Annual Dinner 2015 Far back in the mists of ancient time, February 13th about 6pm in the evening if you really want to know, a great disturbance was felt in the Munrow as over 40 stoats
Trip Reports The Roaches Trip, 6th December 2014 Despite the time of year and the burgeoning terrible English weather, the skies stayed clear on the 6th of December for UBMC’s trip to The Roaches. The morning began frosty and some
Trip Reports Ogwen Trip Report, March 2014 This was the third and final joint meet with the MAM of the year, attended by 20 Stoats,Roger High, and a couple of old gits. It also marked the first trip run
Trip Reports Birchen Edge Trip Report, February 2014 Due to bad weather forcing the day trip to be postponed, unfortunately a group of only seven hardy Stoats made it to the Munrow to venture out to the Peaks on a chilly
