Hill Walking Club
Join the Club for a better view!
Membership of the Cairngorm Club brings you a number of benefits, including:
o Regular meets throughout the year, e.g.
o monthly day (usually Sundays) meets to the hills
o monthly week-end meets, usually to huts or hostels in Scotland
o monthly social meets (e.g. indoor slide-show talks) during the winter
o Tuesday and Wednesday evening climbing meets to cliffs near Aberdeen or Transition Extreme climbing wall (see Meets Calendar for details)
And more..
Enjoying Scotland’s mountains safely means having the right skills and knowledge to cope with the conditions you’re going to meet.
This section of the website outlines some of the essential skills you should master, including navigation and a knowledge of the effects of weather and conditions, along with ways to avoid or cope with any risks involved.
Where you lack particular skills, it may be that one of our courses can fill in the gaps in your knowledge or help you hone and refresh existing skills.
There’s also that knowledge which requires updating for every trip: what the weather is likely to do, and what the snow and avalanche conditions are.
Based in Aberdeen, the Club was founded in 1887 and is the oldest and one of the largest hillwalking and climbing club in Scotland. Its coat-of-arms was granted in 1965. Its objectives are to encourage mountaineering, with special reference to the Cairngorm mountains; to promote competence, safety, knowledge and responsibility of attitude amongst mountaineers; to offer opportunities to engage in that pursuit in company with others; to impart information concerning mountains; to keep under review rights of access to Scottish mountains; and to issue publications. Its members have from time to time included a number of climbers of repute, but most are simply hillwalkers with interests ranging from cross-country walks, through more strenuous hillwalking (and unashamed Munro-bagging), to serious rock and ice-climbing.
- Phone Number: 0999 999999
- Address: ABC Road Near Hill
- Post Code: AB99 9AB
- Email: HillwalkingClub@email.com