What we’re about
Hi there! Welcome to the rock and indoor climbing branch of Scottish Hillwalking & Activities Group, Scottish Hillwalking & Activities Group - Climbing. If you are interested in hillwalking, you can find our walking branch at https://www.meetup.com/Scottish-Hillwalking-Activities-Group-Walking/.
We're a friendly group that was founded to be run by the members for the members. We encourage members to "own the group" and help keep the page active by hosting events, but there is definitely no requirement to do so.
Rock climbing
We have a dedicated core of climbers. There are regular weekly meetups at the Glasgow Climbing Centre and The Climbing Academy. In addition, we host occasional events at Ratho, the Alien Rock venues in Edinburgh and the new climbing centre Above Adventure in Kilmarnock. The group also holds regular rock climbing meets at local crags when the weather is fine, and snow/ice climbs through the winter. Many of these are arranged on group nights at the last minute, due to our fickle weather, so being an active member opens up more options to you.
Further afield, we usually have an annual bouldering trip to Fontainebleau and a European sport climbing trip. Again, you need to be active members to be invited to these.
We are a beginner friendly group and we run several indoor and outdoor introduction events a year for bouldering, trad, sport climbing and belaying. Please note that events involving rope management skills are restricted to members that can already belay safely.
Organisers
The organiser of an event is the point of contact for the event. Organisers are volunteers who are sharing their own experience with others, so those of lesser experience should be aware of this.
The group is completely free to join, but we may occasionally ask for a voluntary £3 donation to help cover the cost of hosting the group on Meetup.com.
If you would like to get involved in organising events, please feel free to get in touch with Mountain Goat via my Meetup profile.
Look forward to seeing you on a meetup soon,
Mountain Goat
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OnlineHi everyone,
We have to pay Meetup fees of 215 $ (USD) every 6 months, to use the website (https://help.meetup.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001620472).
To fund this, we are asking members to consider making a voluntary donation of £3 per member before the New Year. Please note that PayPal adds charges on top of this, usually amounting to about 70p per donation, so the amount charged usually ends up being about £3.70.
If you would like to donate, please RSVP for this event and we can automatically collect the money via a PayPal transaction.
We're posting this as an event on both the climbing and the walking group, so if you are a member of both and wish to donate, you only need to do it once.
Note that if you don't have a PayPal account and still wish to donate £3, you can still pay by credit or debit card via PayPal. The reason we do it this way is because we don't have a group bank account; we only have a PayPal account.
Thanks so much,
Mountain Goat17 attendees
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