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    • Edinburgh JMCS: about the club

    The Edinburgh JMCS is an active climbing and mountaineering club, based mainly in and around Edinburgh, although we have members throughout the UK, and abroad. Our main purpose is to encourage mountaineering activities, in particular, by arranging meets and providing access to huts - see below for some general information, and the huts and meets pages for more details.

    Members' activities centre around climbing, mountaineering and outdoor activities in general, and include:

    • rock climbing - both traditional and sport
    • winter climbing
    • hill walking
    • fell-running
    • skiing - mainly cross-country and ski-touring
    • mountain biking
    • canoeing and sea-kayaking

    The club is affiliated to Mountaineering Scotland (formerly known as 'Mountaineering Council of Scotland').

    There is general information about the club here on this page, and more details are scattered around the rest of the site - see the 'web site plan' below for an index of where to look for things.

    We also have an Instagram page where you can see some of the things that members have been up to recently.

    New members

    New members are welcome. To find out more about the club (including the annual subscription), and how to join, see the membership or FAQ pages, or email the .
    If you are interested in joining, the best way to find out about us is to come along and meet us! Again, see the 'membership' page for how to do that.

    Meets

    We organise a midweek climbing meet each Wednesday evening throughout the year. During the summer months we visit the local (and not so local) crags, and in the winter we go to the local climbing walls (on both Mondays and Wednesdays).
    If the weather isn't good enough to go outdoors, or in the winter, members can typically be found at the EICA near Ratho on Monday or Wednesday evenings (or sometimes Alien Rock 1 but less often than we used to go).

    We also have regular weekend meets to all parts of the UK, throughout the year.

    In addition to the organised meets, members regularly visit most of the other climbing venues in both the UK abroad, for summer and winter activities. For example, many members visit the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Dolomites, Norway, France, Spain etc., and further afield.
    Sports climbing at 'sun rock' (and fine wine) destinations is also remarkably popular.

    Club huts

    JMCS huts
    The club has two huts in the highlands:

    • The Cabin, in Balgowan, between Newtonmore and Laggan (near Aviemore);
    • The Smiddy, in Dundonnell, near Ullapool.

    These provide valuable accommodation in these areas for mountaineering and other activities. They are available to be booked by members, and can also be booked by non-members and by non-mountaineers - see the huts page for more information.

    Kindred club huts
    The Edinburgh JMCS has 'kindred club' arrangements with several other mountaineering clubs, which means that JMCS members have 'reciprocal rights' to book these club's huts, at reduced rates. Specifically, JMCS members can contact a kindred club hut custodian directly, as individuals, to make a booking without going through the JMCS secretary, or waiting for an official meet of the JMCS.

    For further details of the kindred clubs, and how to book their huts, see: kindred clubs.

    Web site plan

    Below is a summary of the other main pages on this site.
    The main links below are at the top of all the web site pages - there are also subsidiary links (linking together closely related material) near the top of the left column of some pages, e.g., this one (or just below the header if viewing on a mobile phone).

    Email addresses:

    for queries about joining (from potential new members);
    for general queries;
    for queries about financial matters (e.g., subs);