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Scotland Trip Report 2024

Wednesday Night ~The Meal~ On the eve before leaving, stoats gathered at Dilshads for the annual pre-trip curry. With some still to pack and others raring to go everyone enjoyed a curry whilst discussing stormy conditions up in the highlands, hoping for snowy peaks. With the president absent, max

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Ogwen: Trip Report 2023

Og- oh it's so wet! We departed swiftly from Northgate in a record time of 6:18 after a lot of last minute kit requests for waterproof trousers (thank you Livia)!After a long drive to Ogwen we arrived at the MAM hut to be greeted by Tom

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Bouldering Day: Trip Report 2023

On the misty morning of the 28th of October, the stoats set out to the Roaches for a day of gritstone bouldering. Swiftly avoiding the boggy ‘spring boulders’ section, which turned out to be actually on a spring, we started off at the Lower Tier. The blister slabs were an

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Low House October 2023!

The week after the sensation that was Stanage 2023 some super psyched Stoats left a very rainy Birmingham and headed on the delightful Friday night journey to Coniston, in hope of drier weather. Eventually all the Stoats managed to reach the address-less Low House and we were warmly greeted

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Cornwall Summer Trip 2023

On this cold, wet and windy Sellyoak day we hope that this incredibly delayed trip report for Summer Trip will remind you of the good old days when the sun shone from 5-11 every day. The trip started with all the Stoats piling themselves and all their tents into

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Stanage: Trip Report 2023

We have kicked off UBMC’s 2023 trips with another successful visit to Stanage! Lots of new and old Stoats all came together for a pretty wild weekend. Tons of climbing, sock wrestling but not enough meanie!! With the Jess, El and Nat leading the charge in the wholesome minibus,

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Portland Trip Report

Portland 2023 was unlike any Portland the club has seen before. With a record-breaking number of first leads totted up by new Stoats, always paired with sunny skies and icy swims. The club visited a new crag this year with the introduction of Battleship Back Cliff which was greatly

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Scotland 2023 Trip Report

Saturday Night As per tradition, we hit up Dilshad’s, Selly Oak’s finest, the night before the trip! With the people carriers (vans) loaded up with club gear and parked worryingly in Selly, we all tucked into superb curries while drinking a pint or two. Many stories of the

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Annual Dinner Trip Report

This February, an army of stoats prepared to head to North Wales on the famous Annual Dinner trip! Neither of the social secs had looked at the weather forecast in the hope that it would bring them good luck with the weekend’s weather - and this seemed to pay off!

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Low house trip report

Despite the rain forecasts ahead people turn up to North Gate with good spirits. After a temporary gear sec was elected to take up the responsibilities of the trip leader people where off. Traffic was good and people got to the hut in good time to meet MAM members. On

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Ogwen Trip report

The trip was (as per tradition) very rainy, however this did not dampen the psyche of the stoats! Saturday morning saw half the group head off to brave a scramble up to Tryfan in pretty windy and wet conditions, whilst the other half split to do a swim in lake

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Low House Scrambling, Nav & Scotland Prep Trip Report

Things started well with three committee members rolling up to North Gate ten minutes late cocooned within Peter’s improvised gear mobile. The setoff was swift, but the traffic was bad with some cars taking until eleven to arrive. It may have done loops of Kendal, then picked up an

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Stanage Freshers Trip 2022

Another successful Stanage Freshers Trip!!! A fun-filled weekend of climbing, drinking and sock-wrestling, Stanage is always a classic trip and a great introduction to the club, with a chance to meet both old and new members and touch some rocks while you’re at it! The trip began

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Pembroke Summer Trip report

Sunny skies were forecasted all week and with a two year hiatus due to covid, it was safe to say the stoats were stoked for some sea cliff climbing down in South Wales. Indeed, as the academic hellscape of exams came to a close, psyche for the much awaited Pembroke

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Stanage Day Trip

Despite having to cancel the original trip due to bad weather, the re-scheduled trip started with the stoats waking up nice and early (some sleeping through their alarms) and meeting at South Gate. After we realised one of the drivers was in Scotland due to a re-scheduling error,

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Low House 2 Trip Report

The weekend began with an efficient departure from North gate. The stoats arrived at Low House with a couple of hours to sit around the fire before getting an early night to rest before a big day of climbing on Saturday. However, not everyone got good nights rest, with stories

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Annual Dinner 2022

The week leading up to Annual Dinner the UK was hit with Storm Eunice, uprooting trees on the green heart and hurling wheelie bins across Selly. As a result, we had to delay the trip by a night as we would have been leaving in the peak of the storm.

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Navigation and Scrambling Ogwen Trip

On Friday evening, it seemed as though the journey to Ogwen might be a tad uncomfortable for backseat passengers with ice axes and crampons to transport! Luckily, all was solved when Old Git Noah gave us a helping hand, providing space in his van. For many stoats, it was their

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Sport Day Trip

North gate was full by 7am on Saturday morning by excited Stoats and a load of Aussie Rules players also waiting for their transport. We left just as the sun came up and began our surprisingly quick journey to Trevor Quarry in North Wales. Once we had all arrived, even

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Ogwen Trip Report

Saturday's weather was not super promising, so we had an efficient start to avoid the rain, with one group going to Little Tryfan to do multi-pitch climbing and another to Craig Caseg Fraith. A few climbs were fitted in by everyone before the rain hit at lunchtime,

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Low House Trip Report

Following only a week after Stanage, Low House had a lot to live up too! Despite only having a short time to recover, the Stoats met on Friday full of psyche, excited to meet the MAM and for a great weekend of climbing! On Saturday most of the club headed

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Stanage Trip Report

Stanage is arguably one of the largest and most hectic trips of the year, kicking off the start of term with a bang, and throwing freshers in at the deep end with a weekend packed full of climbing rocks and wrestling for socks! This year marked the return of our

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Learn to Trad Trip

The evening before the trip, the forecast wasn't looking all too good. We'd heard reports of a foot of snow in some parts of the Peaks, and none of the weather forecasters could agree on whether it would be snow and wind, or sun all day.

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Scotland 2019-20

Day 0 (Saturday - The Journey Up) After the classic DIlshad's curry people are less and raring to go when we are scheduled to meet at 7:45am. A somewhat mild morning to start off the annual Scotland trip. Day 1 (Sunday) Whatever Richard A. Did Richard A wet

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Richard Horridge: Scotland

Many thanks to Richard for letting us share this on our site, it's a great read for a summary of what Scotland can be like! See the original blog post here: https://www.rhorridge.com/mountaineering/2020/01/05/scotland.html I've just returned from a