Hi all! Exciting things planned for this week:

Monday 7:30-9:00 – Climbing at the sports center Come along and try out some of the new routes! There is something for all abilities, no excuses =)

Wednesday 1-2 – Trip sign up and lunch at the Whey Pat Sign up this weekend for a day trip on Sunday 4th March. We are doing this as a learning to navigate trip, so whether you have never held a compass or you just want to brush up on some skills then come along! Location is undecided yet, it will be weather dependent. Cost is £10.

Wednesday 2:00 – Climbing at AV in Dundee, leaving at 2pm from whey pat.

Thursday 1:00-2:30 – Climbing in sports center 7:30- PANCAKE SOCIAL! come to toms house ( 31 Greenside Court) with toppings! be creative, i think pancakes topped with toaster cooked bacon was the highlight of last year, needs to be beaten! We will provide all manner of pancake batters for you special folk (gluten free, dairy free…) who says we aren’t an inclusive club?

Joining the club - Please come to the Whey Pat on Wednesday or to either of the wall sessions to sign up, £20 for the semester

Photo/story comp – We are trying to gather photos/stories/poems etc to create a logbook and make the website look nice and shiny. To upload them to the site, give john (jh447) an email and he will set you up an account. There are lots of nice prizes up for grabs too! comp ends on the week before easter.

Monday 27th Feb (ie next monday) THERE WILL BE NO CLIMBING WALL SESSION. Korfball is using the hall. We are in the middle of organising a navigation evening based in St Andrews, using maps and compasses to find things hidden around town, orienteering style! More info coming soon! Lastly, if anyone has anything in particular that they would like learn more about (navigation, climbing techniques, learning to lead climb etc) or if there is somewhere in particular you would like to go on a trip, then please dont hesitate to ask a member of the committee or send an email to the club account. That way we can organise trips and climbing sessions to focus on those areas. We are here to help you improve and reach your mountaineering/climbing goals but its hard to know what everyone wants to do so we need you to tell us! Just to let you know, we will be doing some more outside climbing (sport and trad) once the weather improves, with specific teaching trips aimed at complete beginners.

See you around!

Eve

Hello lovely mountaineers!
Hope you all had a wonderful holiday and are ready for some more excellent adventures =)
A quick run through of the week:
Monday
7:30-9:00pm: Climbing wall session in the sports center – for this week only you do not need sports center membership so come along and try climbing, there is no excuse!

Wednesday 
1:00-2:00pm: Pub lunch social in the Whey Pat Pub – Come along and sign up for one (or more!) of three trips:

2:00pm – Some people will be heading to AV (climbing wall in Dundee) for the afternoon.

Thursday 
1:00-2:30pm – Climbing wall session in the sports center
Evening - MYSTERY SOCIAL!!!  be very excited… mystery social is to be confirmed (organised…) tonight, more info will be coming into your inboxes soon! it will be a great place to come and meet the committee/regular members and get involved in the club!

JOINING THE CLUB
if you would like to join the club for second semester, the cost will be £20 and you can come join at any of our events or socials.

PHOTOS
If anyone has pictures from any trips, could they please upload them to the website www.staumc.co.uk. There is an attached document on this email that explains the whole process (its easy though, dont worry!) and then we can have an even shiner website!

Thats all for now!!
Eve

Hello all unfortunatly Eve is “swamped” is week, which means this e-mail will be less cheery and more demanding.

We’re holding another sign up for Skye tomorrow, at the Whey Pat 13:00 – 14:00. Just look out for the collection of people in the back room.

• Travel to Skye from St Andrews on Friday 27th Jan, by either luxury minibus* or car. Stay in Skye at the Glen Brittle Memorial Hut
• Saturday night will be a big meal for Burns night including: Haggis, neeps and tatties!..
• Travel back to St Andrews on Monday.

Cost for the weekend? £40 (transport, accommodation and food for Saturday night).

Can anyone who has signed up but not paid also endeavour to bring their money to the pub? It means that we’ll have more to spend on food and be able to avoid getting a number of decent hagguses (plural of haggis) rather than having to get a couple of not so good ones and playing Haggis roulette.

best,
Graham

*Niceness of the minibus may be overstated.

Heylo everybody!
Hope all is going well, and you all had a fantastic christmas with lots of shiny things =)
Right down to the important stuff, our annual Burns meet to Skye is fast approaching and i need to know how many of you lovely people are wanting to attend!
The deal is this: travel to Skye from St Andrews on Friday 27th Jan, sometime during the day. Stay in Skye at the Glen Brittle Memorial Hut (lovely big hut right at the foot of the Cuillins ridge, which is home to this . We will do fun mountainy related things on saturday and sunday (dont worry if you have never used ice axes/crampons/seen snow before, my first experience of axes and crampons were on the Cuillin!) Saturday night will be a big meal for Burns night including: Haggis, neeps and tatties! and whiskey, so much whiskey…
Then we will travel back to St Andrews on Monday. The cost for this weekend of excellence will be £40 including transport, accomodation and food for saturday night.
We will be running a sign up next wednesday (11th) in the Whey Pat pub between 1-2pm. Come and have lunch and a wee revision break! We will run another sign up the week after if need be.
See you all!

Hi guys!
Hope christmas break was good to you all =)
I have been informed that there are 16 spare places on the winter skills course at Glenmore lodge (near aviemore) on 25/26th Feb. It is a fantastic course that will teach you crampon, ice axe, avalanche awarness, navigation an much more! plus you can basically eat your way through the fee! Which is a tiny £20 for the whole weekend, which includes: transport, accomodation Fri and Sat night (at the very plush glenmore lodge), all food (so much food…), all equipment hire (including boots, crampons, ice axes, backpacks, basically everything) We already have a few people from the club going on it so transport to and from glenmore will be sorted with AU/hire cars.
So to book a place on this magical course, please print and fill out the attached  application form (ignore the dealine date) and send it to roger wild (adress on the form) with a cheque for £20. This must be cheque not cash (ask a friend if you can trade cash for cheque if you dont have a cheque book). THIS MUST BE DONE ASAP!!! THESE PLACES WILL GO VERY FAST!
Good luck to you all!
Eve
ps. Skye trip email coming shortly..