Mercian Mountaineering Club

Ross can Ali have haggis, he couldn't get on the forum to ask himself.

I'm afraid I will be giving the haggis a miss

Thanks,
Jodie

Conditions looking very wintry with some snow forecast for Saturday.

http://wwwbaggy.blogspot.com/2012/02/an ... e-day.html

Sharpen your axes!


Simon

on that note, if anyone has any spare winter gear they'd be willing to lend a poor hapless n00b I'd be very much obliged, bordering on eternally grateful.

Tom - you're welcome to my 'spares' but you'll have to get them off Riggers. You'll need them for sure this weekend.
Welcome to a lift if you need.

Simon

Cheers Simon. I did text Riggers yesterday but has hasn't replied so I'll try him again. Cheers for the lift as well!

Hi Ross

Can you put Louise and I down for the Haggis.

Cheers

Adam

For those of you that want food please let me know by 12.30pm today. So far I have the following on the food list:

Me
Tom G
Rab
Jim
Simon
Vicky (no haggis)
Tom G
Geoff
Duncan
Louise
Adam

The menu:
Smoked Mackerel Pate
Served with rocket salad and highland oatcakes
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Haggis
Served with neeps and tatties
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Cheese and biscuits

We won't be there somethings come up

Have a good weekend

Cj and Sarah

Hope everything is okay with you guys. You missed a good meet although it seems like you got all the snow. I'll be putting pics/blog up later.

https://picasaweb.google.com/MercianMou ... CapelCurig

A few pictures from the meet are now online.

Thanks go to Simon for leading the climb and getting us off safely in the dark (even if he did get us lost twice ), Muffin for his entertaining company on the belay ledges, Ross for the yummy food and to Lou, Jodie and Tom for looking after me when I came back soaking wet and freezing cold after 12 hours on the hill.

Thanks to everyone else there for their great company as always.

I've realised that I was wrongly blaming my rucksack for my sore shoulders when actually it's just all the winter climbing as I'm really not used to swinging ice axes hour after hour.

Right, I'm off to do a quick blog post and send see about turning a slanket into a new sleeping bag liner to try and keep me from freezing next weekend.

P.S my boots are already on their fifth newspaper change and there's still no discernible change in wetness.

yup, a good meet was had by all. I only hope that my future winter climbing experiences don't pale in comparison!

http://www.mercianmc.org.uk/category/blog/

Blog post now up to show what we did on Saturday.

It was a fun weekend Really enjoyed our walk today too.

Also found a one lonely, north face fleece in the drying room before we left. Ladies, black, medium. Rab is it yours? If so Adam has it in his car.

Lou

yes louise it is mine, thankyou for picking it up.
if you go down the pub on thursday i will come and pick it up off you.

I've also got a white climbing helmet. Anyone lost theirs?