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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 Mid-Week Outdoor Evening Climbing Meets are in full swing
for 2010. The next mid-week meet will be on Wednesday September 1st at Harpur Hill Quarry.
Keep an eye on the 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!
The club's July 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.
Our Picture Gallery contains photographs of club members rock
climbing, walking, mountaineering and generally doing (vaguely) outdoor activities.
The winners from the 2010 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.
Please note, however, that by tradition there will be no committee meeting, and
consequently no organised pub meet, during August (either on the first
or any other Thursday of that month) as various Club members are likely
to be on holiday then. There are unlikely to be any Club members at the
pub on 5th August, therefore, but we hope to see you in September!
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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