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Welcome to the KMC, the centrally based Manchester mountaineering and rock climbing club.
We are a very active club, with regular outdoor meets
nearly every weekend throughout the year. We generally go rock climbing
during the summer, with walking, scrambling and winter mountaineering during
the cooler months.
The club's July 2009 newsletter is out, with
full details of our upcoming meets and reports on our recent ones. Newsletters
are produced roughly every two months, to keep members informed of the goings on.
They are a good starting point for prospective members to get a "feel" of
the club.
On Wednesday July 8th, Roy and Ivy Lee invite KMC Members and Friends to
their Garden Party. The usual format applies - meet up at the Lee Mansion for a
summer's evening, and bring along some drink and food to add to the tables from
7:30pm onwards. As usual there will be Plants on sale with your spare cash going to
Charity (St. Ann's Hospice).
The KMC Mid-Week Evening Climbing Meets are in full swing again
for 2009. The next midweek meet will be on THURSDAY July 9th
(note the change of day due to the Garden Party) at Helsby.
Keep an eye on the midweek meets page for updates, as the venue for the next meet will
be decided each week by the people who actually turn up at the nominated crag. If you
want to join in, just turn up - you don't have to be a member to come along!
Our Picture Gallery contains photographs of club members rock
climbing, walking, mountaineering and generally doing (vaguely) outdoor activities.
The winners from the 2009 KMC Photograph Competition
are also now on show. The picture archives go back for several years and might give you
some idea of the sort of things the Karabiner Club gets up to...
Newcomers are always welcome to come along to the club. If you'd like to come on
one of our weekend meets and want to double-check the details beforehand, please get
in touch with one of the KMC Contacts. Alternatively, you can
meet us at the pub in Manchester. It is best to come along on the
first Thursday of the month, at the Crown and Anchor on Hilton Street, from
around 9:30pm.
The club owns a very fine mountain hut near Llanberis
in Snowdonia, North Wales. We frequently holds meets there, and it can
also be booked by outside groups. The hut is ideally placed for climbers who
enjoy the delights of the local slate quarries, as well as being next to some
of the best rock climbing and mountaineering locations in the UK.
If you've got to the point where you are interested in joining the KMC - whether you
are into rock climbing, walking, scrambling or mountaineering - then have a look at the
Karabiner Mountaineering Club Notes on Membership
(from where you can download Membership Application Forms as PDF Files for printing).
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