Well folks, that's it for our Sunday hikes for this year, thanks to everyone who came out during the year, especially to all those who helped out leading and back marking, it's been great! And thanks also to everyone who came along to the AGM last Wednesday night. It was brilliant to once again have a good turn out and for the first time in many years we had competition for every single committee position from Captain to OCM. Congratulations to all those elected and thanks a million to those who ran but didn't quiet make it, it's great to see so many people wanting to get involved, there's plenty of work to go round! Congratulations also to Caitriona Harrington for her stunning portrait shot of our new Captain which won Photo of the year award!
We still have plently of stuff going on in the next few weeks, next up is our Wales trip from 14th-18th April. Email in the club if you are interested in going, deposits of €20 and full price €70. We are also hosting a talk by leading Irish climber Ricky Bell on Friday the 13th of April, proceeds go to charity and it should be a great talk so please do come along to that.
The climbing sessions become less formally organised from now on but some people at least will be climbing at the Mardyke Monday and Wednesday evenings and hopefully heading to the beer garden in Tom Barry's afterwards on Wednesday, see the About Us section for more details.
Hikes take place every Sunday during term time! All UCC students/staff welcome, all you have to do is turn up at Gaol Cross by 7:50 AM. A reasonable level of fitness is required as the days can be long and strenuous even if they are also great fun! The bus costs a recession-busting €7.00. Please wear a pair of boots and bring a rain jacket.
We must insist that you not wear jeans or runners/trainers/sneakers! These are unsuitable for Irish mountainous terrain which generally lack any kind of trail to follow. Do bring a complete change of clothes to leave on the bus, including shoes. Find out more details on the hikes list page.
We'll be at the Mardyke Arena climbing wall Monday and Wednesday from 8.30pm to 10.30pm. Everyone is welcome, just wear tracksuit and runners and the gear will be supplied.
We go to Tom Barry's pub on Barrack Street every Wednesday after climbing for a bit of banter, come one come all!
First, a note on Clothing on Irish Mountains
At the very least everybody going hiking should bring:
Here is a printable gear list Please take into account that this list is meant to be exhaustive and therefore more than half of it doesn't apply to newbies! Just make sure you have the essentials. See here for a map of the locations of some of the main gear shops in Cork
This is playlist of all the current videos available on YouTube of the UCC mountaineering club.
You can see our pictures here photo gallery, and if you have taken any pictures we'd love for you to add them to the site! You can register as a user and add them yourself or you can email them into the club and we'll add them for you. You can easily add them if they're on Flickr, Facebook or Bebo too, so send them in!
We've put together ⇒hike maps⇐ of (almost) all of our hikes. The maps show a very rough track of where the hike goes on each trip. There is also a very short description of each hike giving its county, Orndance Survey map number and highest peak of the day. If anybody out there (oldies I'm looking at ye especially) wants to expand on/correct the detail please do. A full online Ordnance Survey map viewer can be found here, switch on WIND REPORT on the preview map series menu to view. Below is a map of UCCMC's Cork Locations, The Mardyke, Gaols Cross and the Pub's. Most of the hikes have been pasted in too, if you zoom out you can see which areas of the country we go to.
View UCCMC Locations in a larger map
The UCCMC site has been updated again for the 2010/11 season. It's structured as a wiki, which means that anyone in the club can edit and easily contribute to the site. Please read the editing guidelines before you start! If you'd like to edit pages and contribute, click “login” at the bottom of the page, and register as a user. It only takes a minute!
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