FMC Revival 2022
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.
Warton Main this afternoon. Martin Dale leading Terminal Trajectory E3 5C. A great effort in overly warm conditions. Seconding I discover that the LD 100 blister is not fully healed! Apologies for poor photo quality.
Hut To Hut 2022. Stake pass route taken by Alison and Peter Wilson. Met up with Chris and John the support team at the Borrowdale Gates Hotel and then completed the walk by the shore path by Derwent Water
Oh no! Not another brewery!
Not been for ages, I believe it's pretty good these days. Did you have a good time at Warton Main?
A walk up Causey Pike and Scar crags ridge today and back by Stonycroft Gill track. Looking forward to the Hut to Hut walk this weekend.
which route are you doing this weekend?
Oh is it the hut to hut? I wouldn't have known! Terrible advertising!!☹️
For anyone wanting to descend Gaping Gill main shaft (98m) without much effort, Craven Pothole Club are running their annual winch meet open to the public from Fri 12th-Fri 19th August. Just turn up at the tent village on the fell and pay £15. Helmets & lamps provided.
Gaping Gill: Information for Cavers
cncc.org.uk
Information for cavers about the Gaping Gill system including upcoming winch meet dates and how access differs.are we doing a trip while it's all lit up?
It’s actually £20 now! Stagflation. Bring your own croll.
I can highly recommend it. Went down in May with Bradford club who charged £15. Get there early!
The little dot in the main shaft is the winch seat
Have done it on electron ladder in my youthful days. Main shaft SRT routes might be rigged.
£20 for going in the wrong direction!
Nutters! 😂
Warton main last night, you weren't lying about the first bolts Simon Fenna.
Glad you agree Donnie. Not good, it makes me feel like I'm gonna hurt myself
Clip stick. No glory in a broken leg on a half solo sport route
A cracking evening at Warton Main (Terrace Wall) followed by beers in the Old School Brewery (after 9pm)
Completed Lakeland 100 race at weekend (actually 105 miles) Weather conditions were "interesting". Very tired, but no damage, however it may be a few days before I can face putting rock shoes on! Photos are leaving Coniston Friday evening and returning Sunday morning. Joanna Goorney did the 50 and was 1.5 hours faster than last years time, a great effort in unpleasant conditions.
Outstanding achievement John!
Well done John! 💪
Wow, well done 👍
Well done John. Probably the Hodge Close skinny dipping last week made the difference in performance
Brilliant effort. Congratulations
Wow, well done John! 👏
Incredible! Good effort everyone👍
Fantastic John, although your legs are twice as long as us mere mortals, which means you only did half the distance 😀
Fantastic effort John! Bob Graham next year!
An excellent effort John and well done..........
Well done John.
Well done John 😀👍
Lundy - These just appeared on The Climber's Club fb group. Thought it would be of interest but, alas, not to me since my recuperation is expected to be 10 to 16 weeks so at least 2 months to go.
FMC Evening Climbing
Warton Main Quarry
Thursday night
This meet was due to be on tomorrow night but has been moved due to there being a better weather forecast for Thursday!
Plenty of lower grade sports routes to be done on the upper terrace and some longer ones lower down! But why not get on some trad? Deceptive Bends is one of the best routes of its grade in Lancashire and Plastic Iceberg (top pitch) has just recently been cleaned!
Please note that there is an evening walk planned to coincide with this meet. Hopefully the walk meet leader is aware the climbing meet has been switched to Thursday? Meeting in The Malt Shovel in Warton village afterwards!
Lundy is a-coming !
up there in the best leads wot I ever did - Italian Job E3 - with HAIR 'Av it ! ( Andy Murray fist pump 😉 )
Bloody hell, whose the young lad in the picture!😂😂😂
Full submersion for John, including full nudity and use of toes to retrieve quick draw!
Lucky it landed on a ledge, it's 29m deep!
Hodge Close???
Well done John 🙂
Vintage Meet action, including interesting quick draw retrieval technique!
Inventory - i.e. list of protection for Peel Off at Witches Quarry as deduced from what's missing from my rack since MY peel off!
By the way in all the excitement I didn't clock who was kind enough to retrieve it from the crag and look after it for me (?) but thanks are certainly due to them as well as to Chris for the belay, all present for tender care at the scene and Donnie for lift to and presence at Burnley General, to the staff of which enormous thanks are also due, as well as at Blackburn Royal in 3 visits so far since.
PS no rush for return of gear since it seems I'll be out for months not weeks. ☹️
PPS have you got my rope as well please?
Sorry to read of your injury(?) Martin. Hope you mend quickly
Take care and recover well, we all want to see you back on the rock
Argh. Sorry to hear this Martin. Hopefully you won't be out for too long.
If your going to fall off you may as well do it properly! Hope you manage to get back on the rock soon and get all your gear back m
Great Gable Adventure
Graham and myself had a day trip to Wasdale up on Gable ticking off Tophet Wall, Eagles Nest direct and Crocodile Crack (which was quite tough for HVS)
What a great bunch of routes. Very jealous.
I too thought Crocodile Crack was uphill for HVS. Fabulous route that - and the others too
Hard to believe Tophet Wall was put up in 1923, last pitch must have been full on.
They're coming over at 10:40-10:45 tomorrow morning now, today was cancelled "for operational reasons"
Anybody get any photos like this while up on the hills and mountains? Love planes!💙⛰🛩
Seen them up close like that many times, but never when I have my decent camera gear with me. Park yourself on the Mach Loop to get images like that.
FMC Evening Climbing
Wednesday night!
Robin Procter Scar
Hopefully, a lot cooler conditions tomorrow! Top quality sport climbing from F5 upwards! All welcome!
Would have provided my best next step!
Anyone going from round here?
Hi, is there a particular place people usually park for here? 🙂
Myself and John Hickman are setting off at 2pm from Poulton.
Sadly turned a bit damp tonight! Wasn't forecast so not happy! Got a couple of routes done though.
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