Upcoming Events
The Second in our “intro to outdoors” series 2024 this aims to introduce people to the wonder of Mourne Granite! This trip is open to all, members and non members so please come along!
More details to be added prior to event
The first in our intro series is sport at Altnadue. This series is aimed to get people away from resin and plastic into the great outdoors! This trip is open to all!
More details to be added 2 weeks prior to event
This year our easter trip takes us to connemara the home of the longest rock climbin Ireland, carrot ridge and many other delightful scrambles.
Cost of the trip will be £60 which includes 3 nights accomodation (Ben lettery hostel) and breakfast.
Club members will be responsible for paying for their own transport there (However, we will assist in organising lifts).
Booking form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScvxHLsA3gR2kRjWpI-yuz00qDEmNACZ4YS6pzZxZVp1d7q6A/viewform?usp=sf_link
This trip is members only.
A long awaited return of the club for the first time in 4.5years to Spain to Sport Climb!
To sign up or if you have questions please email vicky@belfastclimbingclub.co.uk
This trip is club members only
We will meet at 10.00 am at meelmore lodge. The plan is, weather permitting, to head up to the style, take a right to happy valley then climb meelbeg by its NW ridge. Then over Meelmore and down to the col near bearnagh slabs. We will then traverse bearnagh to Hares Gap and back by the trassey track. Bring a lunch and all the stuff you will need for a day in the mountains. This is a members only trip, if you want to go please fill in the form on the link. If you can offer/need a lift please say on the form and we will sort it out! See you on the 7th!
https://forms.gle/FEekmw512TWuXK9V6
It’s AGM time!
Every BCC member is welcomed to come and join us for the most important event for the BCC! We will be reviewing how the year has gone for us and then vote on any constitutional changes raised and (most importantly) vote on nominations for next year’s committee. If you want to nominate someone or yourself for any of the committee positions please do so here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XtYEFqP5ImDdv1kk5bRwCBe9HLlrPvav/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103013502169131412064&rtpof=true&sd=true
If you can’t make it to the AGM and want to run for a position, you have the choice to send a proxy in your place, just email us beforehand. Additionally, I encourage anyone who is interested in being part of the committee to nominate themselves or get someone else to do it for them, even if you think you won’t get it, as this year we are very keen on the idea of potentially having multiple people filling a committee position, with a designated senior to the position.
After all the official stuff is (quickly) handled we will be having the craic for the rest of the night, celebrating another year of the BCC’s continued existence.
This leads me on to announce that we shall be having this year’s AGM in the event room of the Sunflower in the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast! We will be starting at 2100 sharp so don’t be late! Please be aware that this shall be in person only.
Our last club trip of this committee year takes us to an old favourite of the club - county wicklow! As well as being gorgeous to look at glendalough valley offers some of the best bouldering in Ireland (and some trad too)
We will be staying in the hut of our kindred club (IMC) for 2 nights. The craic will be mighty with table bouldering to be had!
https://www.irishmountaineeringclub.org/hut/
It will be £15 which includes accommodation for Friday 29th and Saturday 1st as well as communal basics (tea, coffee, milk, butter, cooking oil, biscuits).
Please note that this cost does not include transport. While transport will be organised by the club it will be the responsibility of each individual driver (estimated at about £15-20pp) to collect dues.
Booking form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmICl7qRq5Xc3v7Z5WV40zeNdpUA9YKIP3r9RrR1NGxonzIg/viewform?usp=sf_link
We will be staying at the derrylahan campsite and hostel nestled neatly between the climbing hotspots of slieve league and muckros (not too far from derryveagh either)
Camping and hostel options available. Please contact Vicky@belfastclimbingclub.co.uk for more info.
Booking form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7gphchwVwDEHXGrZmXv-CQgLU2MBiAseVr7V6DEMuHZvF7A/formResponse
We will be hosting the 2023 Mournes Mountain Climbfest on the 5-7th August weekend. Save the dates and further details will come through nearer the time.
The return of the club favourite (nearly) annual trip: Gola! This is very much the spiritual home of the club being the first ever trip back in 2017.
We are excited to announce that we are hiring Iain Miller for a weekend of sea stacking fun in Donegal!
Organised by our friends from the Dal Riada Club the dates for the ever popular Fairhead Meet 2023 is June 2nd to June 5th.
Tickets, Event and speaker details to follow.
It’s our 6th Birthday! Join us at Henry’s cottage for a BBQ to celebrate, we will provide food, you bring your drinks! There will be meat and vegetarian options, if you have any other dietary requirements you may want to bring your own to make sure you don’t go hungry. Accommodation is available in the cottage or you can camp in the garden, the cost is £5 per person. Please note this event is for members only. However, members are welcome to bring their families.
We are heading to Piqeon to climb on Saturday morning, meeting at the car park at 10 am (weather dependent). As a dessert we have another day of climbing(or hiking)on Sunday. If you would like to take a part in celebrations please fill the form
If you want to join us, please fill in this form:
Organised by our friends from Donegal based club “Colmcille Climbers”, the Donegal climbfest is an event we encourage our members to go to every year!
https://colmcille-climbers.com/2023/04/climbfest-2023/
Our easter trip this year is Wales - an epicentre of climbing, walking and scrambling. I’m excited? are you?
The last of three events in our “introductory to Outdoors” series is Trad at Dunseverick
More details to be added 2 weeks prior to the event.
Please note this introductory day could occur on either the saturday or the sunday of this weekend - it will occur on the day with better weather. Location and time may also change as dunseverick is tidal.
The second of three events in our “introductory to Outdoors” series is Bouldering at Bloody Bridge
More details to be added 2 weeks prior to the event.
Please note this introductory day could occur on either the saturday or the sunday of this weekend - it will occur on the day with better weather.
The first in our introductory series - sport climbing at altnadue!
The soggy cold Irish winter does not mean an end to all adventures! As a solution to the winter blues and to help prepare us for a fun spring and summer ahead please join us on a scrambling trip to sligo (all the fun of rocks with the benefit of being able to sneak quite a few extra layers on!). Potential excursions include King’s Mountain, Benwiskin and Glenade!
Join us on our trip out of Belfast to appreciate the gorgeous Foyle Arena Wall. There may also be cake!
Join us on hopefully a seasonably beautiful hike in the mournes!
We will be meeting at 10AM at Bloody Bridge Car park to hopefully head up chimney rock and maybe a few other peaks depending on weather.
To confirm attendance at this hike please fill in the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYYF69bygpea7M7di6r9ZQttzToWW9eOExveitOAHOTGhgow/viewform?usp=sf_link
Please join us for our annual Christmas dinner- the highlight of our social calendar.
There will be games, plenty of food and maybe even some climbing/hiking!
Christmas dinner will be held at our club cottage, Henry's cottage in Attical (mournes) on 10th December; cost per person is £5. Christmas dinner itself will be pot luck style, so it's time to find your apron and show off you cooking skills. If you wish to stay overnight, cost will be an additional £5. If the weather allows we will go for a hike either Saturday or Sunday and if it doesn't we shall go to hotrock one of the days for an indoor climb.
Please note that this is a club members only event.
If interested please fill in the following form:
Come and have your say on the new committee! We are going to hold the actual AGM at my house! So, if you want to join in person, email me at jamie@belfastclimbingclub.co.uk please! I will then email people nearer the time my address. We have some tables booked at the John Hewitt in the Cathedral Quater, for some drinks in a post-AGM party! Schedule is as follows:
AGM (Jamie’s House): 1900-2000
Walk to John Hewitt: 2000-2015
John Hewitt: 2015-as late as you want
If you are interested in being a part of the committee or think someone else would, you can use the form below to nominate you or someone else for any of the committee positions:
If you have any questions or can’t access the nominations sheet, then email me (jamie@belfastclimbingclub.co.uk) and we’ll get it sorted.
We will also have a laptop for people to join remotely via the google meets link below:
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/xpp-syxo-htn
Or dial: (GB) +44 20 3956 7606 PIN: 822 065 851#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/xpp-syxo-htn?pin=6257142010004
Social get together at the John Hewitt. We'll be there from 8pm - all welcome! We're usually pretty obvious, look for the eejits miming the crux move on their favourite route, or failing that at least one of us is bound to be wearing approach shoes.
We will be hosting a litter clean up walk in the Mournes on Saturday 27th, this event will be supported by the Mourne Heritage Trust! This will take place in the Annalong valley and we will meet at the Carrick little cafe at 10 am. This will be a very leisurely walk, please feel free to bring friends, family or pets!
We will provide bin bags and plastic gloves, however, if you have gardening gloves or something similar you may prefer to wear those. There will also be a limited number of litter pickers, if you happen to have one please bring it!
If you are interested please fill in the sign up sheet here:
Muckross is a sea side crag which will hopefully have minimal effects from the tide at this time in the year. The Muckross crag has a very a unique structure, when it comes to climbing, and if I had to summarise with two words they would be steep and juggy! However, there are different crags near with not so overhanging features if anyone wants to venture further a field.
The plan would be drive up on the Friday evening and camp, either wild or at a campsite this needs to be confirmed, climb the whole of Saturday, climb Sunday morning at least and then head back.
Of course this is all weather dependent so hopefully good weather will avail!
Dead line for sign up is this end of Wednesday (17/08/22) and I'll email people on Thursday with final plans.
Sign up form: https://forms.gle/tCQmKpjBpBuS4tPZA
Muckross Climbing Guide: Muckross Head rock climbing Guidebook (uniqueascent.ie)
Social get together at Cutters Wharf pub on Stranmillis in Belfast. We'll be there from 8pm - all welcome! We're usually pretty obvious, look for the eejits miming the crux move on their favourite route, or failing that at least one of us is bound to be wearing approach shoes.
Just giving people a heads up that we are planning another Mourne Mountain Climb Fest! This will take place on 24th to the 27th of June 2022.
We are arranging camping/water supply in the field near the BCC cottage (similar to the arrangement in 2021) and for use of the barn area for evening socialising. Our booking system will go live on 1st of May so stay tuned and mark the dates in your calendar.
It’s our 5th Birthday! Join us at Henry’s cottage for a BBQ to celebrate, we will provide food, you bring your drinks! There will be meat and vegetarian options, if you have any other dietary requirements you may want to bring your own to make sure you don’t go hungry. Accommodation is available in the cottage or you can camp in the garden, the cost is £5 per person. Please note this event is for members only.
We are heading to Piqeon to climb on Saturday morning, meeting at the car park at 10 am (weather dependent). We also want to do some work on the cottage, so if you have some time on Sunday, and the weather permits, we would appreciate if you could help out doing some painting on the outside of the cottage.
If you want to join us, please fill in this form:
Come down to the ozone but we are going to mix it up and do laser quest instead of climb! This event is open to everyone, feel free to bring your family and friends. If you plan to come please fill in the sign up sheet below so we can make a booking to avoid disappointment. The form will close on Tuesday 26th April.
https://forms.gle/3Vo9XLs8yoHFy6NX7
Spaces are limited, check out the Laser Quest Page for restrictions and further details. We will head to a pub on the Ormeau Road after (probably Northern Lights) to have a proper natter!
Come join us for a trip to Fairhead. Our local crag and one of the best spots for trad climbing in the UK. The climbing in this area is known for being typically steep and challenging but normally well protected. People can lead or set up top ropes depending on what they want to climb. It is possible to walk in to some of the routes but abseil is the most straight forward means of approach for many of the areas.
The plan was to camp over on the Saturday and Sunday night in Sean's campsite. On both Saturday and Sunday there will be folks climbing. If people want to do more climbing (and still have energy) on the Monday then that's up to them to organise.
If you are interested in coming then please fill in the google docs form to let us know.
https://forms.gle/47RREM5eYRfVzCedA
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