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.
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.
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.
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 be booked by non-members). 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).
New members
New members are welcome.
To find out more about the club, 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! See the
above joining page for how to do that.
Other information
A summary of the other main pages on this site:
| news: | • forthcoming social and other events (e.g., discount gear nights) |
| meets: |
•
midweek
and
weekend
meets lists
• to get to the midweek meets see: directions to most local crags |
| joining: | • more information about the club, and how to join |
| 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 |