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. |