Join Guest Speaker Shirin Shabestari Growing up Iran, childhood trips to the mountains with her father gave Shirin a taste for adventure and a sense of freedom. Now living in London with a young family, Shirin shares her love from
The next Sollihull day trip is on Sunday 9th July, though this may move to the Saturday (8th) if the weather is going to be better that day. We will be having a bouldering day at Cratcliffe that is situated
On the 2nd February 1958 the first committee meeting of the Solihull YHA Club met. This club later changed its name to the Solihull Mountaineering Club, and so in 2018 the SMC will be celebrating 60 years of hitting the
So what happens when you take 14 SMC members, send them to Spain, surround them with mountains, and give them 9 days of blue skies and perfect temperatures – a lot that’s what! Things started with a game of hunt
We have just had a fantastic beginners and improvers day, blessed with warm sun, cool rock and cake! 21 members old, new, and prospective descended on Harborough to walk, climb and eat cake and scones. People did their first outdoor
After a nervous week of weather watching 10 SMC members went to Dorset for the March meet. This gave opportunities for walking the south West coast path, exploring the Purbeck hills and climbing around Portland and Swanage. Pete and Clare
On Saturday 11th March a group of SMC members joined other users of Creation Climbing Centre and local families in a charity climb to raise money for a Forest School for St Martin de Porres primary school. We also raised
Donna, Ash, Ross and Mike headed over to the SMC Hut for this weekend and got to work! Progress was made: 2 full landrover loads taken up the back track 1 tonne of logs delivered at the top gate (£100
New Year’s day was too cold for rock climbing and lacked the necessary white stuff for winter climbing. A desperate need to be in the hills drove John Russell and Ian Wyatt to go backpacking, something neither of us had
Pembroke has brilliant, world-class sea cliff climbing, but its distance from Birmingham means we don’t always schedule a trip there.. This time, 14 of us did make the effort, camping at Bosherton, and had another excellent weekend. Most of us