Newsletter Vol 37

Hi Folks,

Well outdoor climbing and our club sessions may have stopped but the love of all things climbing continues, albeit from behind keyboards. As you may have seen on Facebook your enthusiastic (and mostly housebound committee) are putting together a number of initiatives to keep the spirits up. We had a virtual meeting the other night and put plans together for 3 strands of initiatives to partly amuse during these strange times...

1. "Exercise with me" tracker.
Struggling to get motivated to exercise indoors with limited equipment or friends? We are going to set up an open Google sheet (or similar) where you can log what you are doing each day or set yourself a challenge for the week... we may put up a push up or pull up tournament or weekly exercise regime ideas ... This is a work in progress and we hope to get this ready soon. Talk to Lisa Davison-Kernan (or email us) if you want to get involved or have ideas for its creation!

2. Weekly newsletter
We are going to put out a weekly newsletter for your reading delights, these will be posted gradually throughout the week on Facebook before being collated as a newsletter for your delights to be distributed via the website and email.

Ideas we have so far are:
- climbing videos (to be collated by Jamie Roberts)
- climbing photography within your own home (to be collated by Niall McLaughlin)
- ever wanted to find out more about one if our more mysterious members? We will be doing a profile of one of our climbers each week as interviewed by Kyle Stewart

Any other ideas for cool content or stories please send us an email!

3. Climbing Quiz

Finally, we will be posting a weekly climbing themed quiz to be issued each Thursday. You can enter just one round or all the rounds and we will be keeping track of running totals. Vicky will be collating these (possibly helped by former university challenge contestant Rónán Davison-Kernan).

Please bear in mind the latest announcements by BMC and the government - do not climb, fellrun or hillwalk.

All our climbing love

The BCC Committee

Pub Quiz - Thank You

The Fundraising Pub Quiz for Henry’s Cottage was a great night.

The Winning Teams were:

1st - Definitely only 6 Members. *

2nd - Take me now Alex Honnold.

3rd - So who’s actually in our team.

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We Raised the fabulous amount of £454 which will be going to the improvement work already completed in the cottage and allow us to install the alpine bunks.

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* We will leave it up to you to ponder the likely accuracy of the winning team name!!

Quiz prizes!

See below for Quiz prizes! This quiz is to raise funds for the development of the Club’s new cottage in the Mournes. Thank you to all of the generous contributors!

• Chocolate goody bags - courtesy of Vicky and Niall

• Movie House vouchers - not currently showing vertical limit but there are many other high-quality films to see! https://www.moviehouse.co.uk/

• Boojum vouchers for a tasty burrito http://www.boojummex.com/

• Underdeveloped DVDs - courtesy of local legend Ricky Bell.

• Posing Production Films - courtesy of Jamie http://www.posingproductions.com/

• Fairhead bouldering guidebooks - courtesy of Rónán

• Bob&Berts vouchers - For tasty coffee and food https://bobandberts.com/

• Shower kits -  courtesy of Lisa Davison-Kernan

• Jackson Sports vouchers - For all your gear and clothing needs go to the best outdoor outlet in Belfast! https://www.jackson-sports.com/

• Two tickets to the QFT https://queensfilmtheatre.com/maintenance.html

• Port and Brandy - courtesy of Vicky

Pre book tickets here

https://www.belfastclimbingclub.co.uk/news/2020/1/17/quiz-on-21-fenruary

Pub Quiz in the Parador on 21 February

BCC are hosting a fundraising quiz for the Cottage on Friday 21 Feb at the Parador Inn, Ormeau Road, Belfast. Questions will be general knowledge with a mountain theme but don’t worry, being a climber won’t give you any advantage!

Book Tickets Here

I heard you the first time!

We are currently investigating an issue whereby when members sign up they receive two emails upon submission of the sign up form. Please bear with us whilst we investigate and remediate this issue.

There is no adverse impact to your membership should this happen, please simply delete the duplicated email.

Newsletter Vol 32

Hi Folks

Another update from your friendly Belfast Climbing Club. It might be a bit cold for outdoor hand jams but there’s still plenty happening. Below is a summary of news and upcoming trips. Read on!

Wicklow Trip

We were fortunate enough to get excellent weather for the Wicklow trip. Good climbing and much craic was had. The full report by Eva is on the website.

https://www.belfastclimbingclub.co.uk/news/2019/10/18/wicklow-october-19-trip-report

Sat 9th Nov - Moorhill Quarry Trip

The recently developed Quarry just outside Newry has excellent reviews so far (though watch out for Giant Hog Weed). Quite a few people are heading down this Saturday so if you’re interested please let us know via email, Facebook or the WhatsApp group. 

https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crag.php?id=26351

16th to 24th Nov - Costa Blanca Sport Climbing Trip

The first Belfast Climbing Club sport trip is happening! Want to climb outdoors with the comfort of bolts? Want to bask in the sunshine while Belfast starts to get chilly? Well this is the trip for you!

This trip is open to all club members whether you have climbed outdoors before or not. Sport is many peoples’ first adventure outdoors! However, you will need to provide your own kit -quickdraws, harness, shoes, helmet and slings. Ropes will be shared amongst the group.

The club is staying in the Orange House for 13ppn. This is a great wee hostel especially catering to climbers. There are flights from Belfast and Dublin. Dates are rough, so feel free to come and go within the time period - just let us know your dates so we can arrange the accommodation.

The club will be organising cars and accommodation. Flights are self-organised. If you are considering booking please email belfastclimbers@gmail.com

Social 29th Nov - Cutters Wharf Belfast

There will be an assembling of climbers in Cutters Wharf later this month. No requirement to be a paid-up member and there should be a mix of newbies and old hands. Chatting at the wall is good but remember some of the best training you can do is to meet up and talk about climbing! So get down off your hang boards and come say hello!

Membership

The membership year has started again. The cost of membership is unchanged at £10. Membership renewals and new memberships are now in full swing and we have prepared an article to answer the most commonly asked questions. The article can be viewed here 

 https://www.belfastclimbingclub.co.uk/news/2019/11/1/p1ix4um3ebib038z7g54xzxu3hqaa7

Henry’s cottage

The work continues on the cottage. Quite a few were down last weekend to help with cleaning and tidying. It’s very close to complete and should be ready for the BCC Christmas dinner. For the latest updates see below.

https://www.belfastclimbingclub.co.uk/henrys-cottage

Clothing

Now that it’s getting colder, we are putting together another clothing order. The closing deadline for this will be 17th Nov. There are cosy fleece, hoodies and t-shirts to name a few. Have a look on the website to see what’s available

https://www.belfastclimbingclub.co.uk/clothing

Club times

Continue to be as follows

Boulder World Tuesday 7pm - 10pm

Ozone Thursday 7pm - 10pm.

Owen

BCC Club Secretary

www.belfastclimbingclub.co.uk