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.
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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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At the Old Nobs meet I talked a to a number of people about organising a meet at our house in France. Now that France has opened up again. I am planning to go ahead.
I will be there from the 19th of February for 2 weeks maybe 3 depending on work commitments.
I tried to find some pictures but they all seem to be deleted. The location is goo.gl/maps/Ctjn4ggCmfetorJy9. Unfortunately the google street view car did not go up our road but you can look at the roads on the valley to see some idea of the location and see similar houses.
To be clear it is the bottom floor of the farmhouse.The number of beds is 13 but that includes a double bed.
It is a ten minute drive from the nearest ski lift in the Portes du soleil ski area although we tend to drive further up the valley see en.portesdusoleil.com/ In the summer it is a top mountain biking area en.portesdusoleil.com/activities/summer/mtb-area.html
It is similar to the Lakes in character with much lower mountains than the Alps and a mountain such as the Dent D'oche www.infoclimat.fr/photolive-photos-meteo-188409-dent-d-oche.html?auteur=24770 is more like a big Helvellyn.
This website describes the climbing which is mostly trad although there is a bit of sport climbing and the ski touring options www.chablais-grimpe.com/
The trip I had envisaged would be a mixture of lift served skiing, Ski Touring (which the French call Randonnée) snow shoeing and winter hill walking.
Message me if you are interested. I will set up a Whatsapp group. Also if anyone is interested in staying beyond the dates I will be there let me know and I will work something out.
Found this old photo from when we bought it in 2004. The guys are builders who did a great job on refurbing the interior. Sadly Alan the guy at the front with the mug is no longer with us.
"For walkers who can still put their toes in their mouths"
That rules you out then Matt Reed 😂😂😂!
Ahhh the good old days eh 🤣🤣🤣!
Ingleborough today! SRT in Sunset Hole. It was dark when we arrived, dark inside and dark when we got out. Thanks to Steve, Al & Glenn for assistance with the lighting.
In these photos, is Alan B small or far away?
Oh! please don't start that again🙄
Ace photos! What camera do you dare take underground Stephen?
Good stuff Steve
Nutters!😂
# **FMC Caving**
We are hoping to arrange some single rope technique (SRT) training for FMC full & intro members in the coming months. We have approached the Council of Northern Caving Clubs (CNCC) and they have indicated that they should hopefully be able to run some instructed workshops for us at one of the indoor training facilities in the Yorkshire Dales.
Finer details will need working out, but it’s likely we will run a basic **‘Intro to SRT’** day, so people new to it can learn to safely go up and down simple rope pitches underground, and a further **‘Rigging’** workshop to cover installation of rope systems underground. I’m not sure on the exact costs, but similar fully-subscribed CNCC workshops are in the region of ~£25 per person, per day. There may be some small costs for kit hire if required & travel etc.
At this stage, I’d like to gauge the level of interest, particularly in the Intro course, so we can start to make a plan. **If you want get involved please let me know below**, or send an email to steve@hexan.co.uk
Sounds good. I'd sign up for that. Cheers.
I'll do that please. Where do I sign? Let me know what contribution is required.
Sounds interesting, I might be interested 🙂
Guess this would be useful for getting you out from the bottom of a seacliff too!
I'm interested too. Might help get me underground if I know a little bit about how to get back up!
Im interested 👍
If it’s useful to get up from the bottom of a sea cliff count me in but if it’s for caving only I’ll give it a miss.
Yes I,m interested
I am up for some rigging training would be good to hear about how I have been doing it wrong all these years 🙂
Yes, I would be interested as well
Might help me upstairs to the Loo??
Added Chris T to the list too.
I'm up for it. One less excuse to get me underground.
Ingleborough today! Good sunshine when it came out but you couldn't see the Lakeland fells!
How times have changed since this cartoon from the 1953/54 club journal....
Top day out on real rock! Thorn Crag, not too bad a walk from the parking by the river just short of the village of Tarnbrook.
I was on a school trip! 🙁
Proper climbing!
Brit Rock 23rd feb
I want to book some tickets, last time i posted about this Martin Dale, Stephen Clarkand Mark Harding all said they were interested. Can the three of you confirm if you want me to get your tickets.
Also if anyone else wants to go let me know by tomorrow if you want me to get you a ticket.
Brit Rock Film Tour 2022 | Live Interest @ Lancaster Grand Theatre
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Back with a stunning lineup of films representing the best of UK climbers and adventure stories. The full program of four incredible films, features the likes of Pete Whittaker and Leo Holding. E11 ...One problem with this is it's the same night as the FMC AGM!
Ah, I hadn’t realised that. I guess I may be needed to sort the zoom stuff for the AGM.
Messaged you Happy Caver
Lake District mountain rescue warning after ‘chaotic’ festive period
Lake District mountain rescue warning after ‘chaotic’ festive period
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Volunteers urge people to check forecasts and equipment after a record-breaking year for call-outsThe great british public are a continuing embarrassment
Sell Gill Dry Route this afternoon, with Al Blackburn & Glenn Brookes
Nutters!😂
Stuck and drowned come to mind- happy New Year!
Good news - opening till 10pm during the week from 3rd Jan!
New 2022 Opening Hours - PrestonWall
www.prestonwall.co.uk
From Mon 3rd January 2022 our opening hours will be: Monday 10am – 10pm Tuesday – Friday 12pm – 10pm Saturday – Sunday 9am – 6pmFantastic news; although possibly not for the staff 🙏😊
Excellent. Will keep us out o' t'pub for another hour. . . wait - maybe not so good after all!?!? 😁
County Pot - Razor Passage to Platypus Junction. Wander into Dismal Bypass, then Spout Hall, Poetic Justice climb, bedding & ladder pitch into Pierces Passage to Eureka Junction. Wet way upstream to Stop Pot. Back out via Poetic Justice & Shower-bath. Apres in the Snooty Fox.
May be a stupid question Steven, but what do you use to take these photos? Camera or phone?
Martin Dale hasn't had time to comment yet so I'll do it for him ... "Nutters" ... Nice one boys, Happy Christmas.
Wow great photos!
Wow! Even I have plumbed those depths!!
spout hall is a favourite of mine, sorry I missed it
The Ingleton to Ribblehead road through Chapel-le-Dale is to be closed for 5 weeks from 4th Jan 22. Laying electric cables in carriageway apparently. Long diversion via Settle (or the narrow Austwick-Helwith Bridge road) for access to the 3 peaks area.
Ugh
This appears to have been cancelled. Council have rejected it.
Thanks to the efforts of Dave Cundy and his scanner, we have now filled in the gap 1991-1995 and have an almost complete archive of the club magazines/newsletters from 1974 - Present. We still have a gap from 1960-1974, but I have no idea if these exist or not?
Stephen Clark and Dave Cundy: Well done boys. Fab. Already read Fenna's Hoy story and been inspired to write up mine, historical though it will be. I'll be delving into more of this cornucopia of delights. Thanks for the effort.
Just found a 1953-54 journal, and a 1951 journal. Will scan them and send them across when I get chance.
Plus a few 1984/85 newsletters that don't seem to be in the archive yet
We’ll done, great effort to everybody involved. 👏🏻
I think that two of mine are missing - Autumn 2018 and the last one - Spring 2019 - I edited before Chris took over. I'll see if I can find the last of these, which I know I failed to send in. I'm pretty sure that the Spring Autumn 2018 was sent in though.
There wasn't a newsletter between February 2007 and December 2008 - John Wiseman explains why in his December 2008 editorial
My Dad on the committee in the 1956-58 journal. Some those 50s covers would make great enlarged framed prints in the hut walls. Be worth printing out the write up about the memorial bridge and putting it by the pictures at Little Langdale.
Great effort Stephen Clark and Dave Cundy! There should have been all newsletters from when I joined in 1971. I photocopied them all twice and put them into clip binders that were in the huts for years. I think they may have been thrown out because they got tatty. I had all the originals though, and passed them all to Roy Turner so there shouldn't be any gaps. Maybe Roy needs to have a look and see if can find them?
Martin Dale - some quality stuff in these latest ones - from Aug 1994 :
Oh dear that's a tad embarrassing! Good job I kept the day job!
Hope some are up on the hills today, great temperature inversion still
We were. Pen y ghent
Missed it! No good today!
Looks like a Nativity scene! Where's the Myrrh?
Nutters!🤣
Ah. The regular "we're not lost; we're on top of this" subterranean misgivings session. 🤣
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