With a cold but sunny day forecast Paul Highams, Mark Hazell, Ed Lamb and I made a leisurely 8am start to arrive at Blacknor North at about 11am. John Mitchener, Oliver Hill, Adrian Paisey and Zara Bloomfield arrived at the same time and Ian Bryant and Cat Hendrie were already on the rock. Continue reading “Club Trip to Portland (March 2011) – Justin Sharpe”
Club Meets and Trips Update
The social on Wednesday 13th April is Katy Dartford showing slides and talking about 2 of her recent climbing trips to Sicily and Caymen Islands. Hear about what happens when you get injured abroad, and what its like to climb with a bunch of yanks. All welcome, bring your friends.
Also we are now taking bookings for the club trip to the Roaches at the beginning of May. Please book your place by contacting Rob Naylor by emailing membership@thetwmc.co.uk to reserve your place.
See the calendar for more details on the social, the roaches trip and all the other events the club is doing.
The Big Climb – Plas Y Brenin and ukclimbing.com
This is a weekend of workshops (May 14-15) with top instructors to improve your climbing aimed at all standards and abilities, learn more about everything from training to alpine rock routes, rescue techniques etc.
Mark Hazell and paul Highams have already booked places. For more details see:
http://www.pyb.co.uk/courses-big-climb.php
or
http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=3596
Summer Climbing – Dates and Venues
Dear Club,
With British Summer Time just around the corner the time has finally come when we can look forward to getting out onto the sandstone during the weekday evening.
The website calendar has therefore been recently updated to include our proposed summer weekday climbing programme. As usual the focus of events will be at Bowles and Harrison’s on a Tuesday evening but with a mix of the slightly more alternative venues thrown in on a Thursday.
Obviously I can’t predict the weather so on that basis all dates should be viewed as slightly provisional. If wet some of the more shaded venues may have to be avoided in preference for the quicker drying crags. If this occurs then all efforts will be made to notify you all via either calendar changes or e-mail so if it looks damp then please check these before you turn up.
I hope that we get another dry summer like last year and look forward to seeing lots of existing and perspective members out on the sandstone over the coming months.
Regards John
Katy joins the Climbing Elite!
Many TWMC members are also Climbers Club members and may have noticed that TWMC member Katy Dartford is now Assistant Editor of the CC magazine. She had the cover story of the February issue on dry tooling. Last week she was invited to the CC AGM to interview Andy Kirkpatrick who was the guest speaker, she also got to chat to Leo Dickinson and other stars of the climbing establishment.
You can read her interview with Andy Kirkpatrick at Katy’s website
Rob Houston and Louise McMenamin were there and Rob was presented with a CC tie for completing the High Peak Challenge.