In This Newsletter:

Club Clothing
Fontainebleau 2010 27th March – 4th April
Photo Competition
The Ram
BMC Participation Statement

I haven’t got much to say this week, so I won’t waste your time writing pointless rubbish! Instead I’ll just remind you about the Beer and Skittles tomorrow evening, if you haven’t got a ticket and still want to some get in touch with Emma asap! If you’ve already got a ticket, see you there! Now down to buisness…

Club Clothing

Club hoodies and t-shirts are now available to buy from our Bathstudent page, available colours and sizes are here: http://our-catalogue.com/brochure/MalcolmStaples/TwoItems/ The deadline is this Friday, so make sure you get your orders in quick!

Fontainebleau 2010 27th March – 4th April

The annual Font trip is now full! For anyone whose signed up and still hasn’t got a t-shirt get in touch with Owen or Emma, you’ll be able to find Owen in Plug between 1.30 and 2.30 tomorrow, so take your money along and keep him entertained, don’t ask me how, you’ll think of a way, but bear in mind the SU probably has a safe space policy…

Photo Competition

Don’t forget to keep collecting those perfect snaps, the deadline for the photo competition will be the 22nd of April, so don’t worry you’ve got plenty of time.

The Ram this Thursday

As always we’ll be down at the Ram on Thursday, so come and join us for a drink and a chat from 8.30pm.

BMC Participation Statement:

As a member of the mountaineering club you need to recognise that climbing, hill walking and mountaineering are activities with a danger of personal injury or death. Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions. This statement can be found on every trip list, and by signing it you are accepting this risk.

Dates for your Diary:

9th Mar: Beer and Skittles Night
12th-14th Mar: BUCS Orienteering, BUCS Bouldering
20th-21st Mar: Coast Trip
23rd Mar: AGM
27th Mar-4th Apr: Annual trip to Fontainebleau, France
17th-18th Apr: Dartmoor Wild Camp
23rd-25th Apr: Roaches Trip
7th-9th May: Cornwall BBQ Trip

As always, drop me an email if you’ve got any questions about anything in the newsletter, otherwise I hope to see you down the Ram or on one of our weekend trips!

Alistair Everett
BUMC Chair ‘09-’10

Sorry for a late update, last weekend some of our members had another good weekend in Duddon Valley in the Lake district with good weather on both days allowing for a nice range of activities including walking, scrambling, and ’bouldering’.

On Saturday there was three main walking groups, with one heading up Hard Knott from the hut and another group going from the hut via a forest to Seathwaite tarn. The final group started out at Wasdale with some going over the Scar Fell Massive to return to the hut and the other heading over Great End and back to Wasdale.

For Sunday there was three groups again; one going for a 3 scramble route around the Tarn Beck and Seathwaite Tarn area, another going up Grey Friar with a route change taking them along Wrynose Pass because of conditions and the final one going for a bimble around Seathwaite Tarn with a spot of bouldering to break up the day.

Sunday saw the inaugaral Inter University Bouldering Competition take place at The Climbing Academy in Bristol with over fifty students from Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and UWE taking part. A great range of problems were on display and tackled head on and full of enthusiasm (by some!). This was a great opportunity to meet and greet fellow climbers from around the region and get in some much needed training before our easter trip to Fontainebleau.

Congratulations to Archie Cameron-Blackie, who came 2nd in the Mens Open competition. All Bath students involved performed fantastically and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Hopefully there will be many more of these competitions to come and many more opportunities to prove how awesome a club we are!

Thanks go to Bristol University, The Climbing Academy and DMM.

Owen
Club Secretary/Bouldering Ginger Extroadinaire

In This Newsletter:

Beer and Skittles Night Tues 9th March
Photo Competition
AGM Monday 22nd March
Fontainebleau 2010 27th March – 4th April
Getting access to the forums
Trip Pick-up Locations
BMC Participation Statement
Dates for your Diary

Hi everyone,

First of all congratulations to Archie, who came second in the Inter-University Bouldering Competition at TCA yesterday, the competition was hard fought between Bath, Bristol and Cardiff Universities. Well done to everyone else who took part, hopefully this will become a regular fixture in the BUMC Calendar!

Its sounds like everyone else had fun in the Lakes too, despite the late return! I’m looking forward to seeing some wintery photos appearing on Facebook, and hopefully there’ll be some good candidates for the photo competition (see later in the newsletter for more details of this). If anyone who went on the trip would like to write anything about what they did on the weekend ie. route descriptions, what you got up to or anything else, if you post it on the forum or send it to Adrian it will probably end up on the trips section of the website (which if you haven’t looked at you definitely should!).

Beer and Skittles Night Tues 9th March

Following the success of the Bristol night out, our next club social will be a Beer and Skittles night a week on Tuesday. Don’t worry you don’t have to drink beer or even play skittles if you don’t want to, but come along for what should be another quality night! If thats not enough there’ll also be food provided in the form of Chilli, so bring your house mates and non-club members aswell! Look out for more details later this evening including a time and a place.

Photo Competition

Don’t forget to keep collecting those perfect snaps, for those of you in doubt the photo competition is definitely happening! The final details for the competition are just being sorted, but all being well entries will officially open this week, look out for an email soon from Dan with details of what to do with you pictures.

AGM 22nd March

This years AGM will be on Monday the 22nd of March, venue is TBC but it will most likely be in the upstairs room in The Ram. If you’re interested in being part of the committee, being involved in the decisions about how the club works or have ideas about something new you could bring to the club or some way you could improve what we can offer, this is your chance! I’ll be sending out a more detailed email with information on exactly what being part of the committee entails and what you’ll have to do to run for a position. If you already know you’re interested you’ll find the role descriptions on the club website, but by far the best way to find out is to talk to someone who’s on the committee at the moment, they’ll be more than happy to tell you all about it, so don’t be afraid to ask!

Fontainebleau 2010 27th March – 4th April

The annual Font trip is now full! Congratulations to everyone  who got a place and unlucky to those who missed out, if you’re still  dieing to go, but you missed out it might be worth expressing your  interest as a reserve to Emma just in case!

Dates for your Diary:

9th Mar: Beer and Skittles Night
12th-14th Mar: BUCS Orienteering, BUCS Bouldering
20th-21st Mar: Coast Trip
22nd Mar: AGM
27th Mar-4th Apr: Annual trip to Fontainebleau, France
17th-18th Apr: Dartmoor Wild Camp
23rd-25th Apr: Roaches Trip
7th-9th May: Cornwall BBQ Trip

Alistair Everett

Good evening,

You may have heard that the club is going to be holding a photo competition, well it’s time to get the competition underway!

This is your chance to show off your outdoor photography and maybe win some prizes in the process. This post has a link at the very end which will tell you all you need to know about the competition. If you’re interested in the competition at all it’s important that you read the link. However in short:

There will be three categories in the competition and it will cost £2 to enter each photo, or £5 to enter each multiple of 3 photos.

There will be a photo night at the Ram pub on the 29th of April where the photos will be displayed.

The photos will be judged in the pub through voting and by some of the Sabbs! Santa (VP Sport) and Rich Butterfield (VP Activities and Development) have very kindly agreed to judge the photos so far and I plan on getting more Sabbs on board.

The winners will be awarded prizes and the best photos will be used to promote the club online and on display stands.

The money will go towards funding the mountaineering club’s equipment, transport costs and hut bookings (which are not fully covered by membership fees and sign up fees) and on generally making your club even better.

All the instructions are found by clicking the link at the bottom of the post.

I really encourage you to enter your photos into the competition, I’ve seen so many fantastic photos so far this year and it will be great to see them all in one place.

Also check out the clubs facebook event to see the photos as they are submitted.

Please direct any questions to my email address: D.R.Staff@bath.ac.uk

Dan Staff

BUMC Committee 2008-2010

Click the link below to read the instructions!

Photo_Comp

Just in case the website goes down at some point and you start to panic, don’t worry, it’s just me doing some updates and probably failing.

It’s all under control!

Adrian
Websec 09-10

In This Newsletter:

Club/Trip Feedback
Inter-University Bouldering Competition 28th February
Lake District Trip 26th-28th February
Fontainebleau 2010 27th March – 4th April
Getting access to the forums
Trip Pick-up Locations
BMC Participation Statement
Dates for your Diary

Hey Everyone, welcome to a more on time edition of the weekly newsletter! I hope everyone who came enjoyed the social last week, it was good to see some climbing related moves on the dancefloor! Thanks to CJ for organising it, I hope we’ll be doing it again sometime.

Club/Trip Feedback:

As a student club we are here to try and provide for you, but we need to know if we’re doing things right! Its easy for us to get side tracked and concentrate on one aspect of how the club works while forgetting others. So we want to hear what you think about any of the trips you’ve been on, the socials, or anything else you’ve noticed about how the club works, good and bad! There are a number of ways you can do this; email any of the committee at the email addresses you’ll find here: http://bumc.org.uk/committee/, post on the forum, or if you’d prefer to do it anonymously, drop a note in the club pigeon hole, which you can find in the SA corridor in 1East. We’ll make sure we discuss any feedback we get in Committee meetings and do our best to try and act on it.

Inter-University Bouldering Competition 28th February:

For anyone who hasn’t already signed up to the Lakes trip this weekend don’t forget about the bouldering competition at TCA on Sunday. We’ll be competing against Bristol, Cardiff and UWE and there’re regular and beginner classes. There’re no fees other than the usual entry to the wall, and you can sign-up for the competition on our Bathstudent page. So come along, have fun and show them how its done!

Lake District Trip 26th-28th February:

Our next weekend trip will be to the Lake District, the trip will be the usual 35 including transport and accomodation. For anyone who knows the Lakes we’ll be staying in Duddon Valley this time, right in the heart of the Lakes. The first half of the sign-up list is already full, if you’re lucky and go quickly there might be 1 or 2 spaces left, but be quick!

Fontainebleau 2010 27th March – 4th April

Don’t forget; sign-up for the Font trip is at 1.45pm, note the time has moved back slightly to give people with lectures they can’t miss more time to get there. The cost of the trip has been set at £150, don’t forget to bring cash or a cheque payable to BUSU when you sign-up (you don’t need to go to the finance office to sign-up!).

Dates for your Diary:

28th Feb: Inter-University Bouldering Competition
26th-28th Feb: Lake District Trip
12th-14th Mar: BUCS Orienteering, BUCS Bouldering
20th-21st Mar: Coast Trip
27th Mar-4th Apr: Annual trip to Fontainebleau, France
17th-18th Apr: Dartmoor Wild Camp
23rd-25th Apr: Roaches Trip
7th-9th May: Cornwall BBQ Trip

As always, drop me an email if you’ve got any questions about anything in the newsletter, otherwise I hope to see you down the Ram or on one of our weekend trips!

Alistair

Last weekend was the first big club trip of the year and we went to North Wales. On Saturday much good climbing was had at Holyhead Mountain.

Dan belaying at the top of D'Elephant, Holyhead Mountain

Congratulations to Mungo and Will who both completed their first lead and well done to those who pushed their grade. A second group did a stunning traverse of the Carneddau and a third group bravely tackled Grib Goch.

Pen yr Ole Wen from Carnedd Dafydd - taken by Simon Hall

Grib Goch with Snowdon in the background.

Sunday was a rainy day but we made the best of the dry spell in the morning. Some freshers got a rather damp introduction to multipitch climbing at Idwal Slabs and others got slightly more than they bargained for on Tryfan as the weather closed in!

Winter climbing was undertaken by some advanced members as many routes we’re still in and the snow was hard in Cwm Cneifon.

Darrell and Will climb through the mist on Idwal Slabs.

In This Newsletter:

Bristol Joint Social 18th February
Lake District Trip 26th-28th February
Fontainebleau 2010 27th March – 4th April
Getting access to the forums
Trip Pick-up Locations
BMC Participation Statement
Dates for your Diary

First of all, sorry this is a bit late, I’ve been distracted by work and pancakes! I hope everyone who came to North Wales enjoyed the weekend, I certainly had a great days climbing on the Saturday and quite an ‘exciting’ day on Sunday! Thanks to all those who helped out, and everyone else who came along and made it a great weekend.

Don’t forget about the social on Thursday, there are still a few tickets left, so give yourself a well earned break and come party the night away in Bristol!

Also if you’re bored tomorrow and can’t get to UCR, there’ll be a few people heading over to TCA in the afternoon/evening, check out the forum for more details.

Bristol Joint Social 18th February:

There’re still a small number of tickets available for the social on Thursday, tickets are priced at £7 and include coach travel there and back and entry to the club. Get in touch with James (social@bumc.org.uk) before they disappear!

Fontainebleau 2010 27th March – 4th April

Now that the second semester is underway Font is fast approaching, for anyone who doesn’t know this is one of the highlights of the BUMC Calendar. Fontainebleau is one of the best known bouldering locations in the world, and we’ll be spending a whole week there! The Foret de Fontainebleau covers a huge area and contains within it hundreds of sandstone boulders, most of them handily grouped together. Over the years many coloured circuits have been set up to group the climbing problems on them into similar grades. All this combined with a beautiful area, make it a great place to spend a sunny week in Easter. There will be an interest meeting this Thursday at 5.15pm in 8W2.34, this is to explain what we get up to, how it’ll work and show you a video from our trip there last year. It’s not vital you attend this if you want to come, but if you’re in any doubts come along and ask any questions and we’ll persuade you not to miss out!

Lake District Trip 26th-28th February:

Our next weekend trip will be to the Lake District, the trip will be the usual £35 including transport and accomodation. For anyone who knows the Lakes we’ll be staying in Duddon Valley this time, right in the heart of the Lakes. The first half of the sign-up list is already up, and the second half will be going up on Thursday at 1pm, get there early to avoid disappointment!

Getting access to the club forums:

If you haven’t visited our website, check it out: www.bumc.org.uk. Here you will find information about club trips, contact details for the committee, an archive of emails sent out and a whole range of forums for discussing everything from mountaineering exploits to what happened last night down the pub. When you register, you will get access to a number of forums you could not previously see. To register, click login on the right of the home page and follow the instructions.

Trip Pick-up Locations:

The campus pick-up has moved! It will now be located at the coach park in the middle of the East Car Park, its on the road that continues between Woodland Court and Solsbury. The Sainsbury’s pick-up is in the lay-by next to Homebase car park on the left of the road into the Sainsbury’s car park before the mini roundabout (NOT the 418 bus stop around the corner).

BMC Participation Statement:

As a member of the mountaineering club you need to recognise that climbing, hill walking and mountaineering are activities with a danger of personal injury or death. Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions. This statement can be found on every trip list, and by signing it you are accepting this risk.

Dates for your Diary:

18th Feb: Bristol Social
26th-28th Feb: Lake District Trip
12th-14th Mar: BUCS Orienteering, BUCS Bouldering
20th-21st Mar: Coast Trip
27th Mar-4th Apr: Annual trip to Fontainebleau, France
17th-18th Apr: Dartmoor Wild Camp
23rd-25th Apr: Roaches Trip
7th-9th May: Cornwall BBQ Trip

The University of Bath Mountaineering Club is featured as club of the month in the latest edition of TGO (the great outdoors) magazine. Grab a copy in your local outdoor shop or newsagent and check it out!