TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FROM COMMITTEE £10 IF PURCHASED IN ADVANCE, £12 ON THE DOOR Date: Friday 17th January 2014 Time: 7.00pm to midnight Venue: Elgin Town Hall Band: Buskoe Sike Tickets: Available at the Christmas Bus meet and thereafter from Committee (£10 when purchased in advance or £12 on the door), includes Stovies. We need this to be a great success, so please tell all your friends and bring everyone along for a great evening of dancing and craic. Prospective members most welcome.
January 2014 Bus Meet: Cairngorm (inc. Winter Skills session)
Sunday 19th January 2014 OS Map: 36 Bus Stop: Coire Cas car park Arrival Time: 09:30 Departure Time: 17:00 Leave Elgin: 07:00 We are heading back to Cairngorm again this January and Sandy Murray and Ray Harron have kindly offered to do some Winter skills with those who wish to take part. A number of topics will be covered including the use of ice axe and crampons. Ice axe, crampons and helmet will be required, as well as your usual Winter walking gear. The Ptarmigan restaurant may be visited, so bring along some money for tea and cake. If you would like to take part in Winter skills, please contact…
November 2013 Weekend Meet Report: Inchnadamph
November at Inchnadamph Lodge has become an annual tradition for the Moray Mountaineering Club. Assynt is indeed one of the world’s loveliest areas and there is a lifetime’s worth of things to be done, whether walking, climbing, caving, kayaking, canoeing, cycling, fishing, geologising or whatever else takes your fancy. Uamh an Tartair visited en-route to Meall Coire an Lochain on the Friday: Everyone arrived safely at the salubrious accommodation despite a surreal small patch of extremely heavy hail that made a bit of the drive from Ullapool to Inchnadamph a bit more interesting than it should have been. The stove was lit and a sociable drink or two was drunk.…
New Year 2014 Weekend Meet: Plockton
ONLY A FEW PLACES REMAINING – TO BOOK CONTACT JOE ASAP Date: 31st December 2013, 1st January 2014 and 2nd January 2014 (3 nights) Venue: Plockton Station Bunkhouse, Plockton For Hogmanay 2013 / New Year 2014 the Club will be returning to the Plockton Station Bunkhouse. If previous New Year meets are anything to go by, tradition tells this will be an action-packed, fun-filled meet with nice food, drink, party games, more drink, hills, more drink, … What better way to see in the New Year than with MMC friends! Location: The bunkhouse is located next to the train station – a 5 minute walk to/from village. Facilities: Large open…
MCofS News
Following the recent MCofS AGM, the MCofS has started emailing Club secretaries many of their News articles for the attention of Club members. However, all of these News articles can already be found online on the MCofS site. If you would like to review some, or all, of the News articles you can do so by clicking here. Many of the articles do contain useful information and you may find that some articles are more interesting than others! Two of the articles that have been highlighted for Club attention are: All the gear and no idea and Prepare your rucksack for Winter
November 2013 Bus Meet Report: Achnashellach
Graeme Sgurr a’Gharaidh – Dropped off bus at Tullich, boggy path up to Bealach a’ Ghlas-Chnoic. Ascended steep rock and grass to summit, clear views to West. Sleet showers made for a quick descent. Ken Not sure where Ken went but he spotted an eagle and a dipper!! Joe (Wordsworth) Glennie I wandered lonely as a cloud, o’er stone and heathery bit, The clag and mist were all about, I couldna see Jack Shit, The path descended into mud, slippery, slimy, sleekit My flask spilled coffee everywhere, my sack is wet and reekit Up and down I trudged along, up and down again, And all at once upon some snow,…
Christmas Bus Meet December 2013: Glen Affric
Sunday 15th December 2013 O.S. Map(s): 25 Est. time of arrival: 9.30 Time of departure: 15.45 (Don’t be late!) Leave Elgin: 7.00 Glen Affric is one of the finest glens in Scotland and has big remote hills on high winding ridges. The first two Munros, Toll Creagach and Tom a’ Choinich are a good combination and offer superb views of Loch Mullardoch. The next two Munros, Mam Sodhail and Carn Eighe also make a good pairing but may just be out of reach, except for the very fleetest of foot, at this time of year. In the event of bad weather there are pleasant low level walks around Loch Affric…
Winter Lecture – Wednesday 4th December – Tiso Inverness
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Congratulations
Congratulations to Brent Craig who completed a round of the Munros on Sgurr Fiona, An Teallach on Saturday 26th October 2013.
December 2013 Weekend Meet: Muir Cottage, Inverey
Date: 30th November/1st December 2013 Venue: Muir Cottage, Inverey (circa 1.5km from Linn of Dee) Muir Cottage is owned by the Cairngorm Club, an Aberdeen-based mountaineering club. Location: Muir Cottage is located on the North-side of the Linn of Dee road, 8km beyond Braemar and circa 1.5km before Linn of Dee. Exact location: click here. Facilities: The accommodation comprises a common room in the original stone building, a kitchen in a side extension, and four bedrooms, three washrooms (all with a shower cubicle, and one equipped for disabled users), a members’ room, and a drying room in the wooden extension. The kitchen is equipped with two electric cookers (4-ring ceramic hobs…