Banbury Mountaineering Club is a mountaineering club based in Banbury Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Event usually place in the BMC Facebook ‘group’ page.
Banbury Mountaineering Club is a mountaineering club based in Banbury Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, which was established in the mid 1960’s. We are a small group of like-minded people who focus spending time in the great outdoors. We are open to all and encourage those around the Banbury area to join and participate in local events with other club members. We have a wide range of experience within
02/07/2024
Last weekend saw the Banbury boys (and girls) join forces with West Brom, Bromsgrove and Redditch climbing clubs to visit the Gower for some sea cliff climbing. Lovely long weekend with a mix of activities from climbing, flying, bodyboarding, swimming running and drinking. Great annual trip, meeting new folk and sharing a beer.
Cliff
30/05/2024
The BMCC joined a few other clubs over the bank holiday for an adventurous break to Pembroke. Staying at Porth Clais campsite near St David’s. Sun and wind joined us over the course of 5 days.
Sea cliff climbing 🧗♂️ ✅
Sea kayaking 🛶 ✅
Coastal path walks 🚶♀️ ✅
Night navigation 🧭 ✅
Power Motors 🪂 ✅
Camping ⛺️ ✅
Group cooking 🥘 ✅ sponsored by HarryD
Fire pit 🔥 ✅
Sunburn 🥵 ✅
Beers 🍻 ✅ ✅
Fun 🤩 ✅ ✅ ✅
Rain ☔️ ✅ ✅ ✅
Clubs involved
Bromsgrove and Redditch Mountaineering Club
Rugby Mountaineering club
West Brom mountaineering club
Great fun was had by all, weather stayed mostly dry but very windy. With only an event shelter going AWOL.
Thanks to all those that attended.
Next trip is Gower towards end of June.
07/05/2024
Jeremy and myself had a bank holiday trip over to North Wales staying at the BRMC hut at Tremadog. Wet weather prevented us climbing for the first 2 days with us venturing into the hills looking at caves and mining infrastructure. The Sunday the sun popped out and allowed us some climbing on the Tremadog crags. Great break and met members from several different clubs using the hut.
Cliff
23/03/2024
This week saw the BMC journey over to Morocco for some sunny sport climbing. 2 nights in Marrakech and loads of sport climbing in Todra Gorge region. Even managed Africa’s first via Ferrata which was a pleasant break. Staying in a serviced villa we had breakfast and evening meals provided for us. Great little place. Great trip had by all
Cliff
08/08/2023
The club had spent a long weekend discovering the beautiful Scottish countryside around Fort William. A lovely campsite and some excellent adventures were had by all. The weather only allowed us one day of climbing (at Pine Tree Crag in Glen Nevis) with a few days walking around Ben Nevis, CIC Hut, waterfall. Local beers and food assisted the group keeping up the energy levels.
Mark & Tom made good of a windless evening and were able to fly over Ben Nevis using their Power Motors, much to the enjoyment of 100’s of spectators from the on-site campsite kitchen, managing to get 2,000 ft above the summit.
Magda made her first solo summit of Ben Nevis, whilst the rest of the group climbed on the Glen crags below.
A few members ticked off their first Monroe summit on An Gearanach, which started by crossing over the river using a wire bridge and then through a waterfall to the long steep ascent to the peak. Managing to stay dry until we reached the top, when the weather decided we needed a shower so we hastily retreated to the low ground, where we decided a shallow river crossing would be quicker than waiting in line for a crossing using the wire bridge.
A brilliant club trip, with sunny and wet weather. Many laughs, camp fires and memories were made. The event shelter enabled us as a group a dry spot to cook and socialise whilst reminiscing what we had the during the day and plan for the following day.
Next club trip: Costa Brava in Spain in October.
Cliff
30/09/2022
What a way to start the day! 🤩
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06/08/2022
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04/06/2022
Celebrating a few of the club members birthdays saw us setup camp at campsite in Pembrokeshire. Within a few minutes walk we were on several crags climbing. Sea kayaks from the harbour and also power motoring from the adjacent field.
We had setup a base camp which held host to around a dozen members of the Banbury club. With various groups climbing, walking and exploring the local area by land sea and air. Blessed with sunny weather we enjoyed the Jubilee extended weekend. The Bromsgrove and Redditch mountaineering club and West Brom clubs were also in attendance and shared some of the activities.
The nights were cold and windy, but the communal food and beer helped pass the evenings away. A very nice trip shared with some brilliant people and dogs. More photos to come.