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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 KMC Winter Lecture Series begins on Thursday March
4th with Dan O'Brien on "Big Wall Climbing". Be at the
Britons Protection for 8pm, with £3.00 for your ticket!
The KMC plans to hold a new-members meet on Thursday March 11th, at the
Manchester Climbing Centre. The evening will start at 6pm. Anyone wishing to climb
with, or find out more about, the club is welcome to come along. See the
Climbing Walls page for details of the venue.
The club's March 2010 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.
The 2010 Outdoor Meets List is now available.
Volunteers are still needed to fill a couple of blanks in the schedule. If you want
to lead a meet in 2010, contact the Outdoor Meets Secretary (Heather Brooke) ASAP!
Some members of the KMC will now be heading to the local Climbing Walls
on weekday evenings, to stay climbing fit over the winter months. We are also planning some
night-time mid-week evening climbing meets, for those who can't
manage without real rock to climb on.
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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