Hi everyone, Manchester University Mountaineering Club will be having our freshers trips over the next two weekends. We will be visiting the Roaches on 01/10/17 and Froggatt on 08/10/17. For both trips we are expecting to take a large number of novice climbers to the crags but we will do our best to minimise our impact both on other climbers and on the rock! As in previous years, we will split everyone into small groups with a competent leader and second taking a couple of novices with them, the leaders in each group will be encouraging good practice and hopefully teaching novices a lot. It is very unlikely that any top ropes will be put up, but if they are, they will be on selected routes, and only left in place for a short time. We have a fairly large amount of club climbing shoes so as many novices as possible will be wearing them rather than trainers. At each venue we will spread out over different areas and crags – previously when at Froggatt teams have visited Curbar as well, and at the Roaches we tend to split up over the Upper and Lower tiers, the Skyline buttresses and the bouldering areas. If anyone is at either of the venues those weekends, then please come and have a chat, I like to think we’re a friendly bunch!
