A whole year of celebratory events for SMC kicked off in style on Friday 2nd February with seventy nine members, past and present, attending our 60th Birthday Bash at Old Edwardian’s Club, Solihull. The club, then known as the Solihull
Thanks to a generous donation of equipment from Mr and Mrs Williams of Dorridge the SMC kit pool has now been greatly expanded. In addition to more harnesses, carabiners and figure of eights we now have another five (yes count
Mummy took me for a walk last weekend. She and Daddy belong to this group of weird people called Solihull Mountaineering Club. They believe that it is nicer to go outside on a windy Sunday with temperatures just above zero
Sunday 14th January Day Meet to the Roaches for some winter bouldering and walking. Winter is a great time to go bouldering with the friction on the gritstone at its best. The Staffordshire moorland provides some excellent walking. Note, if
2nd February 2018 is Solihull Mountaineering Club’s (formerly Solihull YHA) 60th Birthday and we’d like as many folk as possible to come along to celebrate. 19:30 at the Old Eds on Friday 2nd February 2018. We will have a founder
Vagrant, hobo, beggar and wanderer are all completely inappropriate synonyms for the brilliant Vagabond hut in Nant Peris, scene of the SMC’s most recent meet. Richard, Christoph and Ian were the three hardy souls wanting to put some hill time
As many of you know we organise an annual ski trip in Europe which are always well attended and fabulous fun, whether or not you can ski or snowboard. For the 2018 trip, an apartment has been booked in St
An important BMC Area Meeting will shortly be upon us. Instead of our usual mountaineering speaker & slide show, several staff from the Manchester Head Office will be there to give details, and answer questions about the organisational review, which
After a week of nervously watching the forecast with the potential for rain being suggested and then withdrawn, ten hardy SMC members met up at Horseshoe Quarry, near Stoney Middleton. Despite the fact that this crag has featured in the
The diligent group of SMC anniversary planners have been busy making plans for the club’s 60th anniversary in 2018. After several meetings we can reveal that the year is beginning to shape up nicely and you can start thinking about
