new members

New members are welcome. If you are interested in joining, there is more information about the club and the benefits of membership here.

The easiest way to contact us is to email the club secretary who can then arrange how you get to meet up with us.

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. Club members participate in all kinds of outdoor activities. In particular, rock climbing and winter climbing, hill walking and fell running, mountain biking, kayaking, skiing and more.
Our main purpose is to encourage members in these activities by arranging meets and providing access to huts.

meets

We organise a weekly evening 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 have a weekly club booking at the Heriot-Watt University climbing wall (a wall for connoisseurs), and we visit the other local indoor walls at Alien Rock in Newhaven and the Edinburgh International Climbing Arena at Ratho.

We also have regular weekend meets to all parts of the UK.

In addition to the organised meets, members regularly visit most of the climbing venues in the UK, and also the Alps, Dolomites, France, Spain etc., and further afield. Sports climbing at 'sun rock' (and fine wine) destinations is also remarkably popular. A selection of reports on members' trips can be found here.

huts

The club has two huts in the highlands, one near Newtonmore and one in Dundonnell
(these huts can also be booked by non-members, see the huts page for further 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 North Wales and Derbyshire).


other information

A summary of the information on the other main pages on this site:

news: •   forthcoming social and other (e.g., gear nights) events.
•   past newsletters and meets reports.
meets: •   forthcoming evening and weekend meets lists.
•   directions to most local crags.
•   reports on recent trips by members.
joining: •   more information about the club and how to join.
•   the club constitution and details of the committee.
huts: •   information about the club huts.
library: •   some topos of local - and not-so-local - crags.
•   various mountaineering-related links.