Christmas Ceilidh!

Hey everyone, just to let you know the details for the Ceilidh:

Wednesday 3rd December (that's in 2 days' time!)
Starts: 7.30pm
At: Cardigan Road Community Centre
Entry: £10 (pay on door)
Theme: Toybox

The first band set will be at 8, and at 11pm we'll be moving to Duncan's house for the afterparty. There will be plenty of booze (included in ticket price) and a few nibbles, but not huge amounts of food so eat beforehand.

The Facebook event page is here.

See y'all there!

Kat

More Tremadog news, Christmas celiegh and lost property

Hello,

If you want some lycra ideas check out will and dave on the forum - its savage!
If anyone missed the idea, were trying to get as many people as possible climbing in tight and bright clothes in wales.

I also forgot to say bring a bowl rather than a plate to tremadog - well be eating sloppy things! i presume no-one is a veggo as I havn’t heard from anyone.

If you're driving and want to know where it is, here’s the huts website and a map.

Our annual christmas caleigh is being held next wednesday (3rd Dec) at cardigan road community centre. We've hired a proper caleigh band accompanied by the comedy caller to get people dancing and explain the dances! The cost will be £10 each and well provide loads of booze will be provided too. The theme is 'toybox'. It is always a hilarious night so make sure you get involved. Afterwards we'll be heading off to someones house for a house party.

Were selling tickets for the caleigh tonight, please get them tonight so we have an idea of numbers and can buy the booze!

Lastly I have bag loads of lost property kicking about in my house. If anyone has lost anything let me know, I’ll bring some stuff to the pub tonight.

Cheers, si

Bring on the lycra!

Evenin all, heres a round up of this weeks shinanigens!

To start, heres everything needed to be known about tremadog next weekend. Lycra, lycra, lycra - dave, will and tom have started the ball rolling with a cracking threesome of lycra tights, im gona be getting mine tomorrow, hope everyone else is going to follow suit. I expect them to be worn for travelling aswell! Brilliant...

Were meeting at 5 on friday outside the union. If you cant leave that early email me and we can sort out some later car departures. We'll be cooking (you'll be pleased to hear no porridge this time) but there wont be any plates/cutlery/mugs/cuddly toys/anything so make sure you bring them. Also if anyone is vegetarian let me know asap as at present i dont know about you.

Be sure to bring food for lunches, sleeping bags (the hut has alpine style bunks so you wont need mats), climbing stuff and WATERPROOFS - its wales and its the end of november - enough said. If you have walking boots bring them aswell as we may get out into the mountains if the weathers bad.

If you havnt yet paid for the trip (£25) make sure you pay on wednesday - if you havnt nd we dont know your coming we'll cut down the car spaces. If you are driving and havnt filled out the car registration form please contact dave asap.

For the rest of the week - wall on wednesday, contact me if you'll want to borrow kit and ill make sure some gets down there.

Social will be at the packhorse form 9 and then were meeting up with the kayakers for a cheeky hifi session at 11.

Sweet, see you on wednesday,

Si

nevisport sale

Hi, just a reminder that nevisport have a 20% for all uni clubs between 6 and 9today. Remember to take your student card. If your not a student either get a student to buy it for you or email me and i can send you a membership letter.

Enjoy the spangly new gear!

Tomorrows social and adminy type rubbish

Just a quicky...

Firstly sign up tomorrow for tremadog. Cost will be £25 for food, transport and accommodation. Also, were trying to get a database of next of kin details for everyone coming on club trips. If your coming tomorrow can you make sure you fill in the form. If not could you email mail@luumc.co.uk with next of kin details please.

Secondly, if your driving we need you to fill in a car registration form for the union tomorrow. We'll also need a photocopy of your driving licence, insurance and MOT certificate if you havnt given this to us already. Either bring it tomorrow or take it to the arc before the trip. Sorry, I know its ball ache but the union have to have it!

Tomorrows social will end up at the faversham after the packhorse for a jagermeister-tastic evening. There is also a lecture by Steph Davis at 7.30 in mountain intelligence in towm, apparently she will be "presenting an evening of slis, video and thoughts on climbing (and soloing!) base jumping and sky diving". It should be sweet so get down there if you can!

The hoodies have been ordered and will be on their way shortly, looking forward to the seeing the mass branding!

See you tomorrow,

Simone

Nevisport Discount Night

Hallo all,

Many of you are getting quite into this climbing malarkey now (its fun is it not?) so are looking at buying your own gear. Whether you're looking for your first harness, the start of your rack or any other shiny new stuff to coo over then the upcoming event at Nevisport could be for you.

Nevisport are holding a discount night on the 20th November for all the members of the Leeds Uni and Leeds Met climbing clubs. I think there may also be the Leeds Mountaineers and some walkers there too. The discount available will be 20% of full price products (excluding books, maps & GPS equipment) so there's bound to be some bargains there!

I believe that the discount will apply throughout the day but there will also be late opening. I will post up on the forum when I get confirmation about what times the event is taking place.

See you there!
Will

This week including info on tremadog sign up

Gooood evening,

So, news for this week...

Sign up for the tremadog trip will be on Wednesday at the packhorse from 9. Most of the climbing in North Wales is multipitch (ie longer routes that are climbed in multiple stages). Although this does not necessarily mean the climbing is harder, the commitment of the climbing increases slightly. The main difference is that it is much harder to retreat off a route and involves multiple abseils and probably leaving gear! For these reasons and to make sure everyone gets the most out of the weekend we will be signing up in climbing pairs.

So, find your self an experienced climber to climb with (or someone who you feel comfortable climbing with if your a leader) and sign up on wednesday in the packhorse as usual. Remember, this doesnt have to be the same person you have climbed with on previous trips and partners may swap and change over the 2 days we will have climbing. It just makes logistics and safety a whole lot easier.

If you've never been to Tremadog, the hut is literally 2 mins walk from the base of the rock opposite a nice little cafe. About as close to the crag as you can get, making it ideal for doing your own thing. We'll probably also have a minibus driving into the mountains if there is demand.

Search the forums and photos on www.ukclimbing.com for more info on the crag and what is available locally. Also, "North Wales Rock" is a well worth while guide-book purchase and will be very usefull over the weekend and is available from the Leeds Wall or other gear shops in town.

Otherwise this week we'll have the Wednesday session as usual. I'll probably be cycling down with some harnesses. Let Will know if you want a rope.

The Thursday sessions have now finished due to the wall closure.

Si

A bit of a quieter week!

Hello, I hope everyone has recovered after the weekend. On Saturday I think about 9 or 10 people did their first leads! If you did, well done but make sure you get plenty of seconding experience and continued gear placement practice with another leader on subsequent trips before pushing yourself. I was loving the local banter we got in the pub on the Saturday night, I was feeling quite special for most of Sunday!

This week is a bit of a quieter week on our part. Tomorrow (Tuesday) i’m going to henry price for a cheeky boulder at about 5 if anyone fancies joining me. If you havn’t before been its a rather bisar experience and involves traversing round the back wall of the henry price halls (by the business school) and getting quite alot of funny looks from the residents!

I cant go to the wall on Wednesday so if you want to borrow a rope/harnesses contact will before Wednesday as he’s away too. If you want to go down im sure there will be plenty of club members down there to pair up with.

Wednesdays social is at the packhorse at 9 as usual. Afterwards well be heading down to wire for roots revival, I hear some live percussion will be appearing which sounds sweet.

Thursday is the last session at the uni wall before it closes down. Same old, 7-9.

Bit of advanced notice on things coming up. The north wales trip is on the 28th – 30th November, sign up will be on the 19th. The annual christmas celeigh will be on the 3rd December. The theme will be ‘toybox’ so get your thinking caps on (think any kids toy – snakes and ladders, lego, Barbie and ken, action man, mr men, disney characters etc etc.)

Lovely, see you soon,

Si

meet at union

hi, sorry i forgot to say were meeting outside the union at 9. Once you get there and want to borrow kit (gear, harnesses etc) do that asap so we can get off early. Remember food for lunches, warm clothes, sleeping bag etc same old crack really (o yeh, and meaty additives if your gona complain about veggy food, i find spam is a winner!)

see you tomorrow, si

Bang bang bang (bonfire night), also peak trip drivers!

Evening all. Hope everyone had a good weekend, it was my first climbingless weekend since freshers week! Thanks to everyone that came and helped at onsight on Friday, it was a big success.

Right, a few normal things, Wednesday wall session – if you want to go to the wall and don’t know where you’re going give me a ring and we can head down together from about 2. If you want to borrow a rope contact will. use the forums if you want to meet people to walk down with.

Wednesday night is indeed bonfire night so were gona meet at 7 outside the library pub to go and watch the fireworks before heading to the packhorse. After the packhorse we’ll be doing some further drinking in the dry dock. Hopefully this time they’ll serve us!

Thursday is the penultimate uni wall session before it closes. Anyone can come down, particularly good if you want to start leading indoors, learn to build anchors, or indeed if you have never climbed before.

The peak district trip... We’re short on transport at the moment so if anyone else can drive please please let dave know asap, otherwise we may be walking. If you havn’t paid yet, please pay on Wednesday night. We’ll be leaving at 9 prompt on Saturday morning, returning Sunday evening and going for the usual curry. We’re gona cook up for Saturday night and Sunday morning, bring food for lunches. Also remember sleeping bag and sleeping mat (i don’t think well have the luxury of gym mats this time!) and of course, warm clothes. There is a pub and probably no cash machine in the village, so a bit of cash may come in handy.

Finally, Claire wanted me to pass on this message...
“I just want to say thanks to everyone that helped me in my accident. i was lucky to have so many people who knew what to do. You made a scary experience not half as scary! Im back in Leeds now and walking on crutches, taking it easy, but im pretty much house bound so if anyone is bored and wants to watch a film, play poker etc. then let me no!

See you all soon and back on the rock in a few months.”

See you Wednesday, Si