We started in 2007, when a few of us started at NEWI (now Glyndwr!). There wasn't a mountaineering club back then, but we asked at the sports centre and found out a few others had asked too! After climbing together a few times, we decided to form a club. Since then the club has grown, in numbers and success. The club has brought strangers together and has started a few romances! We are all similar people who enjoy the outdoors, socialising and each other’s company.
The club consists of about a 50/50 mix of students and non students, with approximately 50 fully paid up members on our books, and further associate members We're affiliated to the BMC, and so are experiencing all the benefits that come with that, and have been since our second year.
We clock up hundreds of hours of indoor climbing with weekly meets at various walls, and try to encourage a fairly active social calendar too.We’ve got a broad range of membership, from 18 through to over 60's, with a huge range of abilities and skills, which would become apparent when you see the meets that are organised.
We try to get to one of the local indoor walls (Plas Power, The Boardroom Climbing Centre, Awesome Walls Liverpool, The North West Face Warrington) at least once a week during the wet months, and when the nice weather starts to settle in, we climb outdoors on the Clwyd Limestone most weeks.
Since the Boardroom Climbing Centre opened in Deeside, we've got members down there on average 3-4 times per week, and have unofficially adopted it as the club's new home.
We also encourage all members to organise climbing trips of their own, including weekends and weeks away. In the last few years members have been to Italy, France, Spain and Norway, as well as numerous day trips into Snowdonia and an Arctic Expedition, an attempt on the Matterhorn, successful ascents of The Eiger and the Jungfrau, and all sorts of other big projects.
We have an annual club winter trip to the CIC hut on Ben Nevis, and there is a peaks trip staying at the Don Whillan hut.
So, after telling you all that, I feel I should emphasise that really, we take having a good time as seriously as climbing! So, if we still appeal to you, it'd be good to meet up with you? just let us know when.