Date |
Venue |
Description |
Organiser |
Numbers |
2008 7 - 15 January |
Europe Cold Ice La Grave |
This is the fourth January continental ice meet! After Cogne, Chamonix and Gavarnie, this year we are at La Grave. In addition to first class ice climbing there are also great mountaineering and hors piste skiing possibilities. Accommodation is in a gite that provides evening meals. You are most welcome even if you don't have a partner. |
0207 6035677 0033 683 772619 |
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| 26 Jan - 2 February | International Ski touring Camp Slovenia |
We have an invitation from the Slovenian AC for members under 30yrs old to this international event in the Julian Alps - cost is €uro 240. Contact Martin Scott if interested - as a constituent member of the UIAA the Club is allocated four places. |
020 7722 3687 |
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| Sat 2 February | Lake District Shap Wells 139th Annual Dinner |
Last year's Shap Wells dinner was such a success that it is back again by popular request. Tickets for the three course meal are £35, not including drinks. Please send a cheque payable to the Alpine Club with a STAMPED SELF ADDRESSED envelope. Rooms should be booked direct with the hotel. |
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| 15-17 February | Scotland Laggan Hills and Haggis |
Join the regular optimists at the Pottery Bunkhouse, Laggan (nr Newtonmore) for the AC annual Scottish Winter Meet. Great accommodation and pub food just up the road. £11 per person per night. Make out cheque to Alpine Club and send it to Andy Gallagher at 69 Inchbrakie Drive, Crieff, Perthshire PH7 3SQ. | Andy Gallagher 01764 650419 |
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| 17/18 May | Peaks Spring meet Stoney Middleton |
Spring climbing meet based right in the middle of the peak district, giving access to climbing on Grit and Limestone. Saturday Evening will probably be a pub meal, arranged on the day. Cost is £8 per night, and the hut has a real fire to keep us warm. |
Steve Hunt |
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| 12 - 26 July, but flexible… | Gran Paradiso | At this time we are well clear of the crowds, the flowers are at their best, the boulder fields at least partially snow covered. The south-east aspect faces and ridges are open but anyone wanting snow-ice climbes should be able to find them in condition. Base at Rifigio Pontese in the Vallone di Piantinetto, within an hour of the roadhead. It is surrounded by peaks that would attract attention in the Chamonix Valley with a range of routes from scrambles to outer limit lines on superb granite with accessible classics in between. (see Rock Paradise, M Oviglia). There are sport routes and trad rock climbs within 30 minutes of the hut. There are bivouac huts in adjacent valleys along the line of the Alta Via Canavese with links westwards to the Gran Paradiso itself. The Rifugio is warm, welcoming, and provides gourmet food. There is a cable box for baggage. There are a few two person rooms, but most beds are in the dormitory. Programme is flexible as ever, as are the dates for participation There is plenty to be done in the area as well as in the Vallone di Piantonetto itself. The ‘Tour of the Gran Paradiso’ is a much more demanding (and rewarding) trip than the Mont Blanc equivalent. There are several hostel type main valley bases and a couple of CAI huts for those looking at the bigger picture. The Orco valley rock climbs are bolted – and need to be. | John Temple 019467 23123 07946 781108 Open also to Fell and Rock; CC and ABMSAC Access: Ryan Air to Turin and public transport is cheap and practicable to Rossone in the Orco valley. It is a (very) long walk , but a taxi can be arranged.Road access via the val D’Aosta looks (and is) indirect but in practice not horrendously so. Costs: in 2007 full board at the Rifugio was €uro 45 per day. The national park restrictions on fixed camping apply. |
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| 26 July - 9 August | Innertkirchen - Switzerland | Joint AC, ABMSAC, CC, FRCC Alpine meet - Grund Campsite, Innertkirchen. www.camping-grund.ch In addition to access to the eastern Oberland, Innertkirchen is a good centre for the rock climbs in the Susten & Grimsel Passes. if members are in the area, they are very welcome to drop in, if they want a guaranteed place they should contact Mike. |
01935 428131 |
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| 12 - 19 July | Neustift, Stubaital - Austria |
Hotel based joint meet joint with ABMSAC. 3 star hotel half board approx €uro 40 ppn. Contact the organiser for a factsheet. | Alasdair Andrews 0131 667 1529 |
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| 19 - 26 July | Mandarfen, Pitztal - Austria |
As above. | Alasdair Andrews 0131 667 1529 |
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| 22/23 August | UK Sunny South |
Climbing on the sunny south facing cliffs of Swanage. Coast walk and plenty of mountain biking too. |
07884 261247 |
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| September | Julian Alps | Joint meet with ABMSAC: Hut to hut trek in the Julian Alps.
This meet is fully subscribed. |
Alasdair Andrews 0131 667 1529 |
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| 30 August - 13 Sept | Dolomites | AC/CC/ABMSAC/FRCC joint meet in the Dolomites. Camping Colfosco, Corvara - just east of the Gardena Pass with good access to climbing and via ferrata in the Sella and Puez groups. |
020 8508 2888 |
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| 4 - 11 September | Cornwall |
Joint AC/CC climbing meet at the Count House, Bosigran. | Ron & Ruth Chambers 01768 88488 |
35 |
| 17 - 19 October | UK Alpine Reunion |
AC Alpine Meet reunion and meet co-ordinators get together. All AC and joint meet people welcome. |
01935 428131 |
25 |
2009 |
Kenya | What about 3 weeks climbing on Mount Kenya? As well as routes on Batian & Nelion there is plenty of good climbing on the lower, satellite peaks, and the south side of the mountain is in summer- alpine condition over Xmas and New year. | Dave Wynne-Jones |
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| 10 - 17 January | Rjukan - Norway | 3 hours drive from Torp Airport (Ryanair). | Gus Morton | |
| 13 Feb - 1 Mar | Kenya | Climbing on Mt. Kenya & at Tsavo ( Kitchwa Tembo) with a day of whitewater rafting & the option to extend for 3 days on the beach at Watamu. | Andrew Wielochowski | |
| 13 - 15 February | Scottish Winter Meet | At the Pottery Bunkhouse, Laggan (nr Newtonmore) | Andy Gallagher 01764 650419 |
16+ |
| 25 July - 8 August | Switzerland Annual alpantics |
Joint AC, ABMSAC, CC, FRCC Alpine meet. Saas Grund / Saas Fee, Valais |
01935 428131 |
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| July | Norway Lyngen -2 weeks Romsdal -1 week |
On offer is a mix of 'scottish' style hill walking, and more serious peaks on which a 'classic alpine' approach would be most suitable up to some of the largest big walls in Europe. There is now a budget operator between Stansted and Oslo (Norwegian Air) and SAS prices are competitive. Taking your own car would be more time consuming with a 24 hour ferry ride from Newcastle to Bergen followed by a one day drive to Romsdal, or a multi-day epic to Lyngen. | Possibly Paulma Cook FEEDBACK sought on preferences for venue and timing. 07884 26124
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| 16 - 18 October | UK Alpine Reunion |
AC Alpine Meet reunion and meet co-ordinators get together. All AC and joint meet people welcome. |
01935 428131 |
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