Trip Reports

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Bouldering Day: Trip Report 2023

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Stanage: Trip Report 2023

We have kicked off UBMC’s 2023 trips with another successful visit to Stanage! Lots of new and old Stoats all came together for a pretty wild weekend. Tons of climbing, sock wrestling but not enough meanie!! With the Jess, El and Nat leading the charge in the wholesome minibus,

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Scotland 2023 Trip Report

A fantastic week of winter climbing, gnar, and all-around mayhem! With conditions uncertain, valiant ascents and memories were made.

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Low House Scrambling, Nav & Scotland Prep Trip Report

Things started well with three committee members rolling up to North Gate ten minutes late cocooned within Peter’s improvised gear mobile. The setoff was swift, but the traffic was bad with some cars taking until eleven to arrive. It may have done loops of Kendal, then picked up an

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Stanage Day Trip

Despite having to cancel the original trip due to bad weather, the re-scheduled trip started with the stoats waking up nice and early (some sleeping through their alarms) and meeting at South Gate. After we realised one of the drivers was in Scotland due to a re-scheduling error, the cars

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Low House 2 Trip Report

The weekend began with an efficient departure from North gate. The stoats arrived at Low House with a couple of hours to sit around the fire before getting an early night to rest before a big day of climbing on Saturday. However, not everyone got good nights rest, with stories

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Annual Dinner 2022

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.

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Navigation and Scrambling Ogwen Trip

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

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Sport Day Trip

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

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Ogwen Trip Report

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

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Low House Trip Report

Following only a week after Stanage, Low House had a lot to live up too! Despite only having a short time to recover, the Stoats met on Friday full of psyche, excited to meet the MAM and for a great weekend of climbing! On Saturday most of the club headed

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Stanage Trip Report

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

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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.

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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 mild morning to start off the annual Scotland trip. Day 1 (Sunday) Whatever Richard A. Did Richard A > wet snow

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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!

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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

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Portland 2019

A fantastic weekend sport climbing in sunny Portland!