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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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- Message from the Chairman
As I write this Karen and I are on day 10 of our 14-day self-isolation following our trip to Belgium and … Read More - Evening SPORT Climbing!!! – Thursday 17th Sept – Warton Main Terrace – 5pm onwardsSince the weather is so good this week, we are going to try another evening climbing meet on Thursday with the … Read More
- Photos from Denham Meet – 10th Sept 2020
- IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM OUR CHAIRMAN
In light of the government’s latest announcement I thought it appropriate to write to you all regarding our position as a … Read More - IMPORTANT – To ALL FMC MembersIMPORTANT MESSAGE from Dave Hicks (Chariman) Following the latest guidance from the Government we believe it is now necessary to formally … Read More
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Looking forward to the Woodlands!
Should I bring you some more chilli nuts for the re-opening Martin Dale
Hopefully the king will have lost his visor by then. Do you reckon they will be profiteering with the snacks? God forbid they put them up to 60p.....
... just another pic to add to the thread
You will have a spicy ring after eating them, Nobby.....
So very young
The team! Back left, Roger Brookes, Phil Caley, Joe Giblin, Trudy Clarke, Tom Knowles, Mark Rogers?, Mark Broughton, Paul Clarke , Frank Pearson, Martin Cornforth (Paul and Gregg's older brother) and in front, Mick Lynch. Bobby Windsor and Dave Parker had gone home early following the news that Bob's flatmate, Gordon Tinnings had been killed in North Wales. And I took the photo!
What year was this 😎
Lundy 1981
The club's first trip! 40 years ago this year. We always struggled to fill the Lundy trips, so there will be folks you don't recognise on these photos.
Shame I can't join the next trip owing to prior commitment 😕
Useful summary of the restriction easing timeline from the BMC.
How does England’s roadmap for easing Covid restrictions affect climbers and walkers?
www.thebmc.co.uk
The government has published its plan on how England will exit lockdown and the restrictions that have limited our activities over the past year. The plan provides a comprehensive roadmap for how life...Thanks Steve.
As with now, the difficult decisions will revolve around how far one might travel. Again the guidance is unclear. I guess it's impossible to indicate X miles since that would discriminate.
I think the uncertainty is limited to the 29th March-12th April period. No travelling for climbing before then. After the 12th it's a lot more open.
Having got close last week and found Troy is about a 2 hour walk from here I just have to ask myself - is it worth it? Round Barn might be approachable in a similar time if the footpaths exist but the same question applies.
Link to the official Mountain Rescue fundraising page to support the Patterdale team member who suffered life changing injuries:
Chris Lewis Support Fund - Seriously Injured Patterdale Mountain Rescue Volunteer
www.justgiving.com
On 6 February, during a rescue, a member of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was very seriously injured following a 150 metre fall. His injuries are life-changing and this fund is to provide the suppor...Cheers Caroline Webb . Will go on soon....
For those who may not have read the notes yet, there is a motion at the AGM next week for the club to make donations to Langdale-Ambleside & Keswick MR teams. At the very least, this would be a good opportunity to advertise this appeal. A small donation by a lot of people adds up to a lot of money and would make a huge difference to his future.
Caroline Webb Will do.
Great to see that this collection has reached £975,000 (including gift aid).
Get yer resoles done cheap by the best!It’s lockdown discount time as things are so quiet here now. From today till the climbing walls reopen (whenever that may be) resoles will be £40 and resoles with rand repair are £55.
Get your shoes sorted for the return to normal, save some cash, and help keep us going so we’ll still be here when you need us again.
Do share, like, comment etc and help the clever Facebook algorithms know this is a post worth seeing.
Thanks as ever to Scarpa UK Mountain Boot for the continued support, the new banners are looking great.
www.llanberisresoles.com
Iggi Moore
Training for the Tokyo Olympics from your basement
www.bbc.co.uk
Team GB climber Shauna Coxsey is preparing for sport climbing's Olympics debut - if it goes ahead.Phil used to come down to Preston wall on a Friday evening with Mike and Elaine Owen. I couldn't believe I was actually bouldering with this legend. He was always willing to show you how to do the problems, and boy could he climb! A sad loss.
ARTICLE: Phil Davidson Obituary - Top Lad
www.ukclimbing.com
Mike Owen writes a tribute to close friend and bold soloist Phil Davidson, who passed away on Tuesday 2 February. It began with a message from Phil back in August 2018. Typical Phil, he just came...Very sad
Fantastic obituary 💪🏼
I never knew him but I do remember him soloing Right Wall and what an impressive feat that was.
Climb high and free rip Phil
Very sad. He was an excellent paddler as well as an amazing climber. I never knew him but he used to paddle with a good friend of mine who moved across to Helsby, just around the corner from him.
I was a very minor figure at Pex Hill when I started climbing and I was completely in awe of Phil Davidson who would solo down routes I had no hope of getting up on a rope. Great days and memories - a really sad loss.
This looks awesome and was done with feet on the floor! 😜💪🏼
youtu.be/sBTI9qiH4UE
I suppose we need to increase the sample size ...all in the name of science
Think this is a reasonably well-known technique - and a proven one - esp for rehab. Speculation says it also mimics most people's climbing since it's not all about movement with feet off. Thanks for sharing.
Sadly my door frame won't withstand even the 50% effort of a small elephant trying this 😉
Hmmm interesting stuff. For some of us, that’s all we can manage on a fingerboard! What I reckon might be going on here is that at the start of the experiment he was over-training. So over the month he gave himself a period of active rehabilitation and started to realise the training gains he had made. (It is very similar to the protocol a physio would give you to rehab an injury). If he carried on for another month he would probably plateau then start to decline. Also, he doesn’t say much about what else he was doing other than making sure he had the six hour gap following climbing sessions, so there could be lots of other stuff influencing the outcome.
**Cascade de Halton **
Two new routes 'Covid Cooler' WI 2 and 'Lockdown Luge' WI 2.
Both routes directectly over the river from our house and visible from the living room!
Did you swim across?
Nice one Steve. been looking for owt that might lend itself to that sort of fun on my recent lockdown oot the front door walks. Nowt so far.
Great stuff Steve
I fear this might be the best ice I get this year, it gave me a little bit of amusement today and got the dog walkers bemused, as I topped out on the cycle track!
Fab.
There looks to have been some good ice conditions down in Wilton in the last week!
I saw this posted today
Neil Paul Baines Thanks. I'd been wondering about Cliviger. Did it in the last ice age of 2010 - short but good. Too far to walk or justify cycling I think. Pity.
I’m led to believe there are plenty of “foreigners” in a County just up the road.
Cool man!!
I've meant to have a look for ice in a little gorge near here for some days and after Happy Caver's post and knowing the cold spell's at an end it was today or never so I humped my axes and crampons against a howling wind and found . . . . disappointment as I rounded each bend to see each step in the gorge. Close though - just another couple of days might have done it. Need a hero for the reser outfall - any takers?
**FMC Winter Social by Zoom - Wednesday 10th Feb 7pm for 7.30pm start**
zoom.us/j/95791937522?pwd=OGpjakxhU2h2M3VmcGowcTdqRWpYZz09
Our social sec Martin Dale invites you to :
**Climbing Double Bill!!**
First up at 7:30 is Iggi Moore with ***"Training as you get older".***
Iggi will do a Q+A session. Send a question to Iggi prior to the event if you've got one via Facebook messenger, or comment on Iggi's post below.
Then from 8pm, Tony Hulme gives us ***"FMC kapers in Kalymnos"***
An account of what we get up to when released. A cornucopia of photography, music and video. There's some facts, some myths and some down right lies, but all in the spirit of entertainment.
I'll be there! 😉👍🏼
This is TONIGHT folks❗See you all there!😁
Thanks to Iggi Moore and Tony Hulme for tonight's presentations! Great stuff guys, and a great turn out!
Iggy & Tony Hulme sorry couldn't make it. Thanks for doing your things I gather I missed a good do - and the photo of "me + sponge" 🤪
Gosh. I like the look of Iggi Moore 's 'Training Temple'. Quite an outlay on finger boards there. Admire the dedication to the cause.
Excellent video of Rob Matheson returning to climb Paladin E3 5c at White Ghyll, 50 years after his first ascent. Makes it look like VS. Inspiring stuff!
But did you also see the short about him making a first ascent of an E5 6a at Cam crag Wasdale, even more inspiring given he was 69 at the time!
Think that's mentioned in an article on UKC at the moment - www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/rob_mathesons_paladin_-_50_years_on-13349
Yep, inspiring stuff! Am up for a go on the E6 if anyone fancies it? I did ask Craig if there were any other new route possibilities on that crag, but didn't get a reply! I did Paladin after a wild night in the Golden Rule back in the eighties. I managed to get a head/shoulder jam in at the lip of the overhang, take both hands off and have a full body shake!
Wriggers rang last night to alert me to this. Brilliant. As a septuagenarian there is this tendency to feel inadequate when watching this sort of stuff. Still, I couldn't have led Paladin when at me best so... Mind I did make a half decent job of seconding it with Ron Cowels in 1982.
Was it an actual shake or a smoothie?
Probably more likely to be climbing v. Diff once all this no climbing wall wall is over Martin! Me that is.
This is a good series about lockdown training!
VIDEO: Lockdown Training Ep. 4 - Training Movement from Home
www.ukclimbing.com
In this week's episode of Lockdown Training Discussion, Maddy Cope, Neil Gresham, and Louis Parkinson tackle the topic of training movement at home.Wowser
Amazing skills! Nearly as crazy as a potholer!
Dubhs slabs/ridge - 1000m Moderate. Looks an awesome day out, anyone done it?
Great picture Caroline!!!