Posts Tagged ‘Club Activities’

El Chorro – Spain

April 6th, 2011

Dale recently organised a last minute budget trip to El Chorro in southern Spain. Four of us went for a week and it is a superb climbing venue. There is so much rock to be explored and it appears less popular than other venues such as Kalymnos.

We stopped in Ardales, a short drive from El Chorro village but central to many crags, for the week. The high light of the trip was the ‘King’s walkway’ of ‘camino del rey’ a via ferrata along a disused and crumbling walkway, which we did on our rest (i use the word loosely) day.

There are a few pictures in the gallery, some of which are below

2011 Meets

February 2nd, 2011

Well its better late than never but the WMC 2011 meets card is finally here. We had a few technical glitches which have prevented us from publishing it in pdf any earlier but the clubs calendar was updated late last year so hopefully no one has missed out.

You can download a copy of the meets card herehttp://www.wolverhamptonmountaineeringclub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/WMC-meets_2011.pdf

This month we have a slideshow in the pipeline, we are off to the club’s hut in Snowdonia and venturing to Scotland for some ice climbing at the end of February. Hopefully we will see you there!

Dave’s dream come true

April 6th, 2010

DW2 managed to ‘break his dream’ this Easter weekend by finally climbing A Dream of white horses HVS 5a on Wen slab, Gogarth after 8 years and 9 attempts. He said, “I’d gone to do the route on many occasions but had to abort for various reasons including bad weather and once a partner refused to abseil down with me!” The route traverses the slab from the right and passes above spiders web arch in the back of the zawn. Climbing is atmospheric and a slip on the last pitch can leave you dangling in space. After the route was completed he commented, “Pitch 4 is a real adventure and my type of climbing!”

Dave at high water belay on pitch 1

Approaching belay on pitch 1

Considering gear options on pitch 2

Traversing to concrete chimney on pitch 3

Savouring the moves on pitch 4

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Winter wonderland in North Wales

March 20th, 2010

Who would have thought that we would see such conditions in March. Below is a selection of images including Dave Wilkinson enjoying a rest on top of Pen yr ole wen after leading left hand fork of Y gully with Mick Jones. Conditions were fairly good especially out of the sun.

Carneddau from Mynydd Llandygai

Llyn Lloer and Y gully left of centre

King Dafydd on his throne at the top of Pen yr ole wen

Tryfan and the Glyderrau from Pen yr Ole Wen

Glyderrau from Nant Francon valley