Outdoor Meets with the Club
In the humble and unbiased opinion of your outdoor met secs, outdoor meets are by far the meet and potatoes of CUMC official activities. Although facing a severe shortage of mountains since the early Cambrian period, the UK is home to a wide variety of rock on which to climb, from Dorset limestone to Peak gritstone and Welsh rhyolite. Every weekend of term, come rain, snow, sleet, or the inevitable sambuca+limoncello+whiskey hangover, we'll carpool up to a crag for a day or full-weekend trip. If you are new to climbing, by all means come along to cut your teeth (but hopefully not your ropes) on this addictive...um, addiction (the difference between a 2.1 and a 2.2 in your undergrad course? vs a weekend on Ravens Crag Langdale?*). If you've been climbing for ages and are eager to escape from the fens and the bubble of academialand, come along and tackle all those E-grade routes that some of us will only ever dream of, and also help show some new climbers how it all works.
In addition we'll have a week-long party somewhere a bit more difficult to get to (Scotland? Cornwall?) in June, where some folks go climb for the whole week or, if you're in the unfortunate position of having a real job or a thesis or somesuch, join for a long weekend or a few days. Outside of term many of us venture farther afield to such exotic locations as Fontainebleu, the Alps, Argentina, Siurana, Norway, and Yosemite, and all preferences from bouldering to sport climbing and alpine to ice are represented in the club.
Climbing is by far the best activity in which you could take part whilst at Cambridge, so get involved! Once you're a member you can sign up for all of the club's meets here on the website as soon as they are announced. An email will go around the mailing list as well to remind you to sign up.
*CUMC does not endorse the promotion of mountaineering-related activity at the expense of academic performance.