ANCRUM MOUNTAINEERING CLUB
Site update 14 May 2006
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Who we are
Ancrum Mountaineering
Club is a small friendly club based in Dundee, Scotland. The club has
monthly weekend and day meets as well as long weekends in May and October.
Click here to find out more about the background
of the club
Cyndi McCulloch will be pleased to
give you more details on joining our club.
We
are affiliated to the Mountaineering
Council of Scotland
The Web Site
Compiled by Allan Brown. Please feel free to e-mail me with articles, news, photographs or anything else of interest. Or if you want to be informed of significant updates. Ideas for the site also appreciated. - It's your site not mine!
Ancrum Outdoor Centre summer brochure now on line - includes navigation courses
A Rhum Brucie Bonus (10 May)
Photos from Torridon (4 May)
Report from the 2006 AGM (3 April)
New page of weather and travel links Many other links updated and added (7 March)
Bad weather? Feeling like Sunday Morning?, then this website is just the biscuit. (28 Feb)
Get clued up and trained for the winter. See our safety pages (4 Nov)
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Whats on Scale Dundee's climbing wall, Avertical World. It's braw.
The Arctic, Greenland, Queen Victoria, songs, The Eiger Sanction and award winning nature and adventure films. See the DMFF website for details. 24 - 25 November
2006
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| Safety Be safe on the hills. Information pages on safety, gear lists and a route card. Updated 14 May 2006 Ancrum Outdoor Education Centre new website with downloadable summer brochure Hillphones - details of stalking. Don't end up as a trophy on someone's wall. |
| Avalanche reports and Weather
Always check out snow and weather conditions before you venture out on the hills in winter (and in Summer! )using this daily updated (in winter) site. Ski-Visit Scotland has good information on ski and road conditions and weather. Winter Highland is also a great site for description of snow conditions. Geoff Monk, a Meteorology Consultant is providing mountain condition reports in a pdf (acrobat reader) format . BBC Radio Scotland (FM) has a hill weather report every weekday evening at 1915 hrs. Tune that car radio in now! You can listen to at any time on the BBc website (Radio Scotland) if you have broadband. |
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| Meets List Note that the phone-in night for day meets is now Thursday. Information updated 14 May 2006 |
| The Committee. They organise the club. You can buy them a pint. They organise a tasty curry night for the AGM. They encourage you (unsuccessfully) to attend the Mountain Mind Quiz. They moan at you for not filling in route cards. They do a great job. See the committee for 2006/2007. Click here to see your favourite committee member. |
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Ancrum MC was 25 years old in 2001. See our Anniversary activities |
 The
Great Ancrum Munro Challenge 2002
To celebrate the International Year of Mountains a quest for Ancrum members to climb all the Munros, collectively, in 2002 was set. A' Ghlas-Bheinn, our last Munro was climbed by a large party on Saturday 14 December. See the photographs here
Updated 24 April 2003 |
Nick Hamilton wins Mountain Literature Prize!
Congratulations
to our own Nick Hamilton, who shared 3rd prize for best prose in the MC
of S Mountain Article Competition 2005. Nick's story, Indian Wall ,tells
of a climber finding his personal limits on a Native American Mesa. You
should be able to read this in The Scottish Mountaineer over the
next few months.
For all you budding authors the 2006 competition closes on 1st June 2006
(see details in The Scottish Mountaineer December 2005 edition
17 December 2005
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Useful if you can't access e-mail. Ask for advice. Ask for a lift. Look for a walking partner. Advertise items for sale. Interact with the site.
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Photographs
Snapshots of AMC members in the coffee shop and occassionally on a hill
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| Sites worth visiting Cairns and Cameras is my own website with more photographs and Sidlaw Walks. Mountain Days Dedicated to mountaineering, hill walking & rock climbing in the UK. Contains database of all mountains in UK plus climbing routes, gear, weather and comprehensive links directory. |
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