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UBMC Insurance As UBMC is affiliated with the British Mountaineering Council (BMC), when you join the club and pay for a membership, part of the fee goes towards BMC Combined Liability insurance. This covers you for the whole year and our secretary sorts it all out for you which makes

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Ropeworks 2019

What started as a sunny day soon turned into pouring rain! Still a fantastic day learning some really important stuff on the rope works course with Rock and Water Adventures @paulsmith_coach. If you need some @reon_uk to keep you going on your adventures use code MOUNTAIN to get

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Summer Trip - Cornwall 2019!!!

As exams draw near, you needn't fear, as summer trip, is nearly here...!! That's right, UBMC's summer trip is just around the corner! This year we will be camping in Cornwall, and the trip will be running from the 8th - 15th of June!! This

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Where's the Forum?!

Here it is! I've archived the old forum so it is forever available and saves the society from paying the £60 annual fee for hosting it! You can search the forum using this search bar (or search it here): FTR.UBMC.co.uk How did I do this?

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The new website!

Scroll to the bottom for an update. Our new website is hosted on AWS using a 'Free Tier' EC2 option. After trying out a few different options I settled with using Bitnami's deployment of Ghost - it was relatively easy to set up and seems to have

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Portland 2019

View this post on Instagram TB to my climbing trip! There was some coastal climbing, yes - the sea terrified me WAY more than the climbing and we found fossils!! Looking forward to my upcoming trip to learn ropework and some Trad! Shoutout to @cassaela and @uobmountaineering with whom I travelled

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Low House Trip Joint MAM Meet

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Annual Dinner Trip 2019

Opposition emerged against the ancient army of UBMC before the trip even commenced. A pretty grim weather report shrouded the trip with memories of past Annual Dinner’s where rain had prevented all climbing (not that attendance at annual dinner is primarily for the climbing). Even as stoats new and

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Stanage 2018

Our Stanage trip this year was a great success and the first weekend where good weather was enjoyed on both days! (as promised by the Supreme Commander of British Weather, President ADL). Arriving at Thorpe Farm in thick fog the lively band of Stoats spent the evening browsing guidebooks and

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OGWEN 2018

Joint MAM Meet On the Friday before the first weekend in November, the keen stoats who had managed to get in to the now infamous Ogwen sign ups gathered by the University of Birmingham Sports Pitches. In the rapidly approaching darkness all were bundled into cars and a very snug

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TREMANAGE - Tremadog 2018

As the autumn sun set on the University of Birmingham pitches and the rain lashed down a group of surprisingly chipper students convened to make the wet and windy journey to Tremadog, the queen of Welsh trad crags. With every rope, rack and boulder pad crammed in between freshers and

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Welcome Freshers 2018

About us UBMC wants you! If you have never climbed before this is an ideal opportunity to try your hand at rock climbing. We are a very active club and climb indoors every week and outdoors every fortnight. Indoors On Monday evenings we climb at The Depot, a large bouldering

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Scotland 2017-2018

This years Scotland Trip was undoubtedly the best for good weather climbing conditions in aeons. With snow being spotted as far south as the Lake District and only increasing in volume as the 21 stoats travelled northwards the excitement mounted throughout the miraculously smooth drive. On arrival a flurry of

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Stanage 2017

Stanage; A trip designed to introduce freshers to the marvels of British trad climbing, and what better way to do that than by dragging them up low quality routes in the pouring rain on a cold and windy October Saturday morning? Despite the cold and wet the Stoats returned to

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Trevor quarry sport trip 2016

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Annual Dinner 2016

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Roaches 2015

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Scotland 2015/2016

“Red badger to flying stoat…” Day 1: Return of the Stoats Awaking early on an unnervingly warm winter’s day, an eager group of stoats descended upon the Munrow to make the annual pilgrimage to Scotland. The intention was, as usual, to climb some mixture of snow, ice and rock

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Peak District 2015

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Lake District 2015

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Ogwen 2015

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Annual Dinner 2015

Far back in the mists of ancient time, February 13th about 6pm in the evening if you really want to know, a great disturbance was felt in the Munrow as over 40 stoats trudged through the rain and dark hoping North Wales would be more inviting. Apart for one minibus

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Stanage 2015

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Scotland 2014-2015

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The Roaches Trip, 6th December 2014

Despite the time of year and the burgeoning terrible English weather, the skies stayed clear on the 6th of December for UBMC’s trip to The Roaches. The morning began frosty and some of us were very late (again, apologies!) due to having to de-ice our cars; or in