Hello guys!
First post in a while, to get you all thirsty about a summer getaway here’s a video compiled by Jack Smith-Keegan, a former member of the club during his trip to Font with a few other members.
Do have a look, it’s worth your time.
It’s also permenantly attached to our website under Trips> Activities>Bouldering
Enjoy!!

font june 2010 from corsair on Vimeo.

Wednesday evening played host to the annual Blues Dinner, the prestigious University Sports award evening. This year, the Mountaineering Club was shortlisted for the University Club of the Year, the top award on offer. Other nominees included Karate and Kickboxing.

Come the night, a fantastic atmosphere was evident, even if the nerves were a little high! Guest appearances were made by Chancellor Lord Tudgenhart, VC Brakewell as well as Olympic champions Jason Gardner and Amy Williams. The tension mounted as the awards were announced one by one, our category being among the last to be announced. But fear not! We WON! Thats right! Bath University Mountaineering Club is officially the Club of the Year for the University! A trophy and certificate were both presented as congratulations for a year well done.

A fantastic evening was had by those who attended and a huge THANK YOU to all of you, the members, for making this club so fantastic that we are worthy of such an honour. A photographer from the Bath Chronicle will be on campus tomorrow (Thurs 13th) to take a photo of us, so all are welcome at 3pm in the STV foyer to get your beautiful faces into the paper!

Thanks to everybody who entered their photos into our photo competition.

I knew that the club had a lot of great photos to offer but I didn’t quite expect to receive so many photographs. £73 was raised which will go toward paying for equipment and transport so you can enjoy your sport, with the club, as much as possible. I want to make all of the photos entered available online and perhaps in a social space at university sometime soon.

And so the winners were….(click the photos to get a big image)

by Dan Staff.

The latest weekend trip took BUMC to the Roaches for a climbing & bouldering only trip. Saturday saw an Alpine start (ok, 7am then) to get the maximum amount of climbing in. A couple of fairly major epics happened during the course of the day with CJ providing a new piece of in situ protection to the E5 he strayed onto.

On Sunday the glorious weather broke at last with a 2pm rainstorm leading to the fastest striking of camp the world has surely ever seen. However there was still plenty of time for some bouldering in the morning.

Will Pope

Wednesday 21st saw those in the club of a climbing disposition descend to Symonds Yat in the Wye Valley for some gnarly limestone climbing. The weather was fantastic and a good time was had by all. Feel you’re missing out? Look out for the next Wednesday trip coming up.

Will Pope

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This weekend the club spent Saturday and Sunday hiking across Dartmoor, wild camping on the Saturday night. We couldn’t of asked for better weather making up for all the other wet weekends spent down there. We covered a good amount of ground doing a circular walk around most of the North Moor.

Robbie King
BUMC Committee 09/10

Today the club had the first outdoor day trip for this semester to Goblin Combe, despite the sun hiding in the morning, it was really sunny when we started climbing!

I’ve managed to push 2 grades, I’m sure everyone else also had an amazing day like me!

Looking at the post and drooling? Make sure you come on the next one to avoid disappointment!!

Adrian

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In This Newsletter:

Outdoor Climbing this week
The Roaches Trip 23rd-25th April
Photo Competition
Dates for your Diary

Hey everyone,

I hope you all had a good easter break, and for those who went to Font I hope your fingers have recovered, and if you’re having withdrawal symptoms don’t worry, its only 356 days until next years trip! For those who missed out, there’ll be plenty of photos appearing on facebook if you want to see what we got up to, so go check them out!

Outdoor Climbing this week:

Now that the clocks have changed and summer is upon is its time to dust off your harness and brave the wild outdoors for some proper trad climbing! This weeks trip will be to Goblin Coombe which is just south of Bristol, cost of the trip will be £4 and sign-up is in the finance office as usual. If you need gear there’ll be a gear meet at 3 tomorrow for you to get what you need.

The Roaches Trip 23rd-25th April:

Our next weekend trip will be to the Roaches, which is an area of the peak district well known for its gritstone crags. The trip will be solely climbing and we’ll be staying in a campsite within easy walking distance of the crags, if you’re interested look out for an email with details of sign-up etc shortly. And if you’re lucky you might even see a wallaby while you’re there…I kid you not, google it!

Photo Competition:

The deadline for entries to the BUMC photo competition on April the 29th is approaching fast. There are two categories you can enter your photos, one for pictures from club trips and the other for photos from non club trips. Each photo costs £2 to enter or you may enter three photos for £5. There is a third comedy category which is free and you can submit whatever you like. To enter the competition email you photos to BUMC_photo@hotmail.com. Details on how to pay will follow later. Some of the Sabbs will judge the photos on April the 29th at the Ram Pub and prizes will be presented to the winners!

Dates for your Diary:

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-’1o

If you have noticed any changes then well done! I have again been avoiding work, so a new photo album has been made for the page, and also a new committees page is in progress, once the information is gathered it’ll be up and running!

Hope no one else is as stressed by work as I am and have a happy easter holiday!

Adrian
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The laptop I use to update the website is dead, and away, so for the time being website updates might be delayed, as I’ll have to take time to fix and reinstall everything on it.
Sorry if you’re expecting something new in the very near future. It’ll all get going when my laptop comes home.

Cheers
Adrian

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