About the club
The Edinburgh JMCS is an active climbing and mountaineering club, based mainly in and around Edinburgh, although we have members throughout the UK, and abroad. Our main purpose is to encourage mountaineering activities, in particular, by arranging meets and providing access to huts - see below for some general information, and the huts and meets pages for more details.
Members' activities centre around climbing, mountaineering and outdoor activities in general, and include:
- rock climbing - both traditional and sport
- winter climbing
- hill walking
- fell-running
- skiing - mainly cross-country and ski-touring
- mountain biking
- canoing and sea-kayaking
The club is affiliated to the Mountaineering Council of Scotland.
There is some more general information about the club here on this page, and more details are scattered around the rest of the site - see the 'web site plan' below for a sort of index of where to look for things.
New members
New members are welcome.
To find out more about the club
(including the current annual subscription),
and how to join, see the
joining
page,
or email the
.
If you are thinking of joining, the
best way to find out about us is to come along and meet us!
Again, see the
'joining'
page for how to do that.
Meets
We organise a
midweek climbing meet
each Wednesday evening throughout the year.
During the summer months we visit the local (and not so local) crags,
and in the winter we go to the local climbing walls
(on both Mondays and Wednesdays).
If the weather isn't good enough to go outdoors, or in the winter,
members can typically be found at
Alien Rock
on Monday evenings and at the
EICA
near Ratho on Wednesday evenings.
We also have regular weekend meets to all parts of the UK, throughout the year.
In addition to the organised meets, members regularly visit most of the
other climbing venues in the UK, and destinations abroad, for summer and
winter activities.
For example, many members visit the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Dolomites,
Norway, France, Spain etc., and further afield.
Sports climbing at 'sun rock' (and fine wine) destinations is also
remarkably popular.
For more of a flavour of these trips , see the
members' trip reports.
Huts
The club has two huts in the highlands, one between Newtonmore and Laggan, near Aviemore, and one in Dundonnell, near Ullapool. These huts provide valuable accommodation in these areas for mountaineering and other activities. They can be booked by non-members (and by non-mountaineers!) - see the huts page for more information.
In addition, the club has reciprocal rights arrangements with the Fell and Rock and Oread clubs, giving JMCS members access to these clubs' huts (the Fell and Rock club obviously has a large number of huts in the Lake District, and two in Scotland, while the Oread has huts in both North Wales and Derbyshire).
Web site plan
Below is a summary of the other main pages on this site.
The main links below are at the top-right of all the web site pages -
there are also subsidiary links
(linking together closely related material)
near the top of the left column of some pages
(for example, this one).
| news: |
•
dates and details of forthcoming social and other events
(for example, discount gear nights) |
| meets: |
•
midweek
and
weekend
meets lists
(to get to the midweek meets see: directions to most local crags) • a general list of the various club social events (for exact dates see news) |
| joining: |
•
more information about the club, and how to join
• how to pay the annual subscription • how to update your contact details |
| huts: | • information about the club huts |
| library: |
•
past meet and trip reports, and newsletters
• the club application form and how to pay the subscriptions • some club history • details of the club constitution and committee • various topos for local, and not-so-local, crags • various mountaineering-related links |