We are an active and friendly club of around 160 members, based on the Fylde Coast, Lancashire. We offer a warm welcome to walkers, climbers and mountaineers of all abilities, who share our enthusiasm for the outdoors.
If you would like to find out more, please explore the rest of the website, come along to one of our meets, including winter social meets in Poulton-le-Fylde.
You can contact us here or find us on Facebook here.
The club meets regularly most weekends throughout the summer and winter months at venues around the UK and at the Club’s two huts, both of which are situated in the English Lake District.
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This is a live feed from our Facebook group. Unfortunately, recent changes to the Facebook integration have prevented us from displaying some individual member names & photos.
Christine Fry club editor catching the moment’s at the club dinner
Did she behave herself this time 🤣
What a beautiful picture of a dear friend.. Xx 😘
A bit jaded and slightly hungover today - not too much - just enough to know we had a great evening at the FMC Annual Dinner
Thanks for organising it Tony
Yep it was a super night.........👏👏
Aye! Great night! No hangover here!😉
Great venue lovely food great to meet up with everyone and chat!!😃Thanks Tony for organizing it.
Agreed great night and nice to catch up with lots of folk
Great day with a team of 13 down Notts 2.
Thanks to Stephen for organising it and Kathryn for feeding us all afterwards.
Happy days
Looks like you had a fantastic time. next time for me😃
Good to see all those smiling faces. It looks like it was a good day. I'm glad our newest requit Donny joined in. I still don't fancy it.
Great photo in the evening sun as we enjoyed a rare civilised end to a caving trip! Thanks for organisation and hospitality to Stephen and Kathryn.
Nutters!😂
Great turn out, well done all👏😁
Are my eyes deceiving me, or is that Slow Nick on the left there?😂
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FMC Caving meet today - Notts 2. Great to see so many folks coming along. Worth watching for the sunset at the end.
great video 🙂Just missing Mr and Mrs mad lol
Wow just watched the video. Maybe I'll join in.... Maybe
Great video, look like you had fun.
Nutters!😂
Great video though! Looks like caving is the most popular activity in the club at the moment!
Nice work Stephen Clark. Any chance of a still from the final sequence - walking off into the sunset? " . . and as the sun sinks slowly in the West . . . " as a thousand cowboy movies have ended.
Thanks Stephen Clark. Downloaded out of Dropbox now.
FMC caving meet... the day after!
any excuse for powerwashing 🙂
Where are the bodies?....
Ditto but only had a scrubber no power wash. Quite pleased with the way the yellow suit came out. Not up to Alan Blackburn standard but...
Ahhh. Now I remember why I gave up caving 😏
This has held out for some years! Impressive stuff from Craig!
NEWS: First Ascent of Hard Cheese (E10 7a) for Craig Matheson
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Craig Matheson has made the first ascent of Hard Cheese (E10 7a) at Bright Beck Crag, Langdale. The route has been tried in the past by the likes of John Dunne but the overhanging groove held out...Wow, and you were so close to doing it first Martin Dale 🤪
Just been reading that! Wow.
Top effort - and great insight.
More from the "Owd Lags"!
Some of those are surely imposters and don't look old at all🤔
Models wanted! Tomorrow, between 12 noon and 5pm, we will be taking some publicity photos of our lovely new wall and we need a few models. In particular we need:- children aged 8-17 years; female climbers; older climbers. It will only take a few minutes of your time and will be in exchange for free entry/ coffees/ or a kids club session. Interested? Please DM us for details.
Does 36 class as older?! 😜
The Coledale on Saturday night.
Well done for bending our arms to come along Nobby Dale
Twas a great night! Cheers all!😀
Beer with an absolute legend! Johnny Lockley!
Brilliant! Not the most flattering pic of Mr L, but yeah, it’s him. Love to see him again. And you, of course, young Nob…..
You’re missing a brilliant Stout Wars event all across the Auld Grey town tonight mate, you not coming over…?
Now where in the World am I? In (for me) uncharted waters, that's where!
Are you being photographed for promotional material? I, for one, would buy a #Lancasterwall mug with your mug on it.
Did you get in through the back of a wardrobe?
www.lancs.live/news/local-news/full-list-cumbria-road-closures-21994960
Full list of road closures in Cumbria as drivers abandon vehicles in floods
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The weather has already seen many roads close or become impassable - and vehicles have been stranded on roadsWe arrived in Keswick at 3.15pm on Friday and witnessed no major flood related problems at all!!
Geoff at the summit of Cat Bell
A worthy Fell Race winner, along with the other two??
Photos from Peter Wilson's post
You were lucky to see the deer!
smashing photos
They were lucky not to see us??
Hey, I'm the cover star of the latest FMC magazine! How exciting is that?
We didn't know the name or location of the route, but on seeing it enlarged, I can reveal that it is "Oktobermonde", 6c+ at Palionosis Bay, Kalymnos. It wasn't in the guide and I wasn't aware of the grade! It has since appeared on UKC logbooks. I just tried it out of interest and managed a clean ascent. It's pulling on razors!
Awesome.! Looks a little bum twitchy.?
Remember you doing it. What a great route for you Martin!!!😀
Looks tough - crimpfest?
Nice 👍🏼
Coz yer a bloody good climber nob..........well deserved 👏
Followed you up it. Glad it was you who lead it. Was bloody sharp
You deserve to be on it Martin-you have belonged to the club for years and you are a ruddy good climber! I remember watching you and it looked soo hard-I had to take piccys! Yes remember you too Tony! I think the photo shows just how hard climbing can be!
Very, very wet in the lakes, in fact major floods so decided to occupy ourselves doing the finishing touches to the hut. Just needs a lacquer next weekend. Used old cuttings from climbing magazines from decades ago. To be fair Liz’s idea.
Is that in case the toilet paper runs out?
looks great
Fantastic idea!
Have got a load of old OS maps if you want to do similar in another room
Love it, great idea!
Great idea. I hope you've included the front cover of May 1976 Climber&Rambler mag? 😉
Is there any rampant 70's sexism in there? 😜
Nice to see the Alpine Centre - centre stage so to speak. Fond memories of time spent in there ( the shop that is not the toilet).
That's great what a good idea but I hope nobody is going to hog the bog!
I think ITV failed to research how to Abseil. How not to use a figure 8 Emmerdale
That's how I always use one. "Maybe" that's where I've been going wrong
Last time I used a figure of 8, I had to stop halfway down and wrap the rope round my leg several times! Way too slick! It was at Mother Scarys!
A long time ago I thought I would try a classic abseil. With hindsight from the top of Goat Crag after doing Bitter Oasis was not my best idea, good job I was wearing sturdy trousers
Emmerdale figure 8 gives zero friction. They have just passed the rope through the big hole
I have done many classic abseil in winter just knowing the technique is so useful
Certainly a novel use of a fig 8
Anyway, none of you should be watching such tosh on TV!😂
I just love Emmerdale ❤🤣!
They probably lowered her on a top rope and then someone who does not understand how the thing works CGIed it in afterwards.
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