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
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
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
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
Join Guest Speaker Shirin Shabestari Growing up Iran, childhood trips to the mountains with her father gave Shirin a taste for adventure and a sense of freedom. Now living in London with a young family, Shirin shares her love from
The next Sollihull day trip is on Sunday 9th July, though this may move to the Saturday (8th) if the weather is going to be better that day. We will be having a bouldering day at Cratcliffe that is situated
On the 2nd February 1958 the first committee meeting of the Solihull YHA Club met. This club later changed its name to the Solihull Mountaineering Club, and so in 2018 the SMC will be celebrating 60 years of hitting the
We have just had a fantastic beginners and improvers day, blessed with warm sun, cool rock and cake! 21 members old, new, and prospective descended on Harborough to walk, climb and eat cake and scones. People did their first outdoor
On Saturday 11th March a group of SMC members joined other users of Creation Climbing Centre and local families in a charity climb to raise money for a Forest School for St Martin de Porres primary school. We also raised