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Welcome to the MPS Website If fresher’s week passed by in a bit of a blur for you then this website has everything you need to know about the club, who we are, what we do, and where we go. We cater for all types of mountaineering; everything from walking to the pub, basic hill walks in the Southern Highlands, through winter skills training and winter mountain routes in the Cairngorms, to demanding rock and ice climbing. Since MPS was founded in 1990 it has been agreed that Scotland offers the best environment in which to do this so as often as possible we get up to Scotland so members can enjoy the wild and remote mountains there. So if you just fancy a wander in some stunning Scottish scenery or if you want to climb a classic ice or mixed route then you’re in the right place. On all trips you’ll find like-minded people keen to get out into the hills with and we are very fortunate in MPS of the wide range of experience of our members; this is perfect if you wish to learn new skills or develop and practice old ones because there will always be someone willing to share their knowledge. Take some time to explore the site, save it to your favourites, join the mailing list, and add the news feed to your homepage to be right upto date with the very latest changes. All the best for the coming year,
Latest News Monday-30-January-2012Winter Skills, Cheers everyone for a great trip! Rons Blog has picture of the Mountaineering course. Fi Blog has pictures of the Walking course. Talisman also has a facebook group you should all like. :O) Robbie Munro TallyI have uploaded the munro tally from the 2 Scotland trips this semester. check out your current statistics. Not a bad start to the year really! Have a great Christmas everyone, and looking forward to seeing some of you over new years. Message Robbie, if you want to come. Greg Braemar TripNew Year trip to Braemar(28th Dec-4th Jan) is coming up. More details on the meets diary! If you are interested in coming along drop me a message Robbie (Meet sec) Facebook GroupJust incase anyone isnt aware, we have a MPS facebook group :O) Robbie Crainlarich Sign UpThe sign up for the next and last weekend trip of the semester to Crainlarich is at the Hugh Stu Hall Bar, Tuesday@8PM. See you then :O) Robbie (Meet Sec) Snowdonia Sign UpThe signup for the next trip to Snowdon is in Mooch, Tuesday at 8PM. Robbie (Meet Sec) AberfeldyWe have a single spare place on our Aberfeldy trip. Drop me a email if you are interested. Robbie (Meet Sec) Monday-17-October-2011The Lake district was a great trip! The signup for the next trip to Aberfeldy is tommorrow at the next social. Hope to see you then. Saturday-02-July-2011Skye was a successful trip, cheers to everyone who came along. Here is the meet report: checkout the one I have done for LAMM: Please feel free to add your own memories/photos/tales Wednesday-09-March-2011Following the AGM yesterday the 2011/2012 MPS Committee are: President: Ben Llewellyn Vice President: Greg Martin Meets Secretary: Robby Pineda Treasurer: Ann-Katrin Kotte Mountain Safety Officer: Jonny Midgley Social Secretary: Chris Herbert Well done to everyone who ran and good luck for the year ahead! Braemar TripHello, there are still a few spaces left on the Braemar trip if anyone is intrestred could they get in touch with me ASAP. Braemar is a really great bit of Scotland with a brilliant range of walking, climbing and whiskey. Lakes sign up.It is the sign up for the lakes trip at the social this week, which is a pancake social at robs house Winter Skills PlacesThere are still two spaces left on the winter skills trip for those who want to come and do there own thing. If you are intrested please get in touch with me soon. Brannock Fort William Meets ReportHeres to another great MPS week away. I've started the meet-report, please add your own memories/tales to the page: Winter Skills Interest.Hope everyone’s Christmas holidays are have started well. As we have had a lot of interest in the trips we have run so far this year, it would be really useful for me to have some indication of how many people would be interested in going on the winter skills trip, particularly how many people would like to go on any of the courses outlined below. This trip is over three days 27th-30th of January, leaving on the evening of Thursday 27th of January, having three days on the hill Friday, Saturday and Sunday and coming back on evening of Sunday the 30th. I know this is a long way in advance but it would be really useful for me to have some indication of how many people want to go on this trip. This year we will be running three courses, Introduction to Winter Hillwalking (covering the skills nesecary to walk in the Socttish mountains in winter), Introduction to Winter Mountanering (this course will look at advanced winter walking skills and easy winter climbing (grade 1 routes)), Introduction to winter climbing (this will cover winter climbing skills on harder routes (grade II and harder)). Plese see the meets diary for more details on the courses we run. Merry Christmas. Brannock Monday-22-November-2010Hello First of all thanks to everyone who came on the Glencoe trip for making it such a great trip, particuar thanks to the other drivers. The Sign up for the New Year Trip will be next week (at the Old Trip but please note that is next week (30th Nov), the social this week is at the Broadway Cafe tomorrow), but it would be really helpfull to have some indication of how many people want to go on the New Year Trip, so if everyone who wants to go could tell me then that would be great. This year MPS are going to Fort William for a week over New Year, leaving on the 28th of December 2010, and coming back to Nottingham on the 4th of January 2011. This is one of the best trips of the year with the promise of winter climbing on the Ben, loads of good walking (such as the Grey Corries), Scrambling (Ring of Steall) and there is even the Annoach Mor ski center nearby. And if the weather stays like it was for the trip to Glencoe last weekend then there should be plenty of snow around. As we are staying up for a week, we will be there ove New Year, which is always a good night out in the Fort. Also the accommodation we are staying in is really good and only a short walk from town. There is also a train station in Fort William, so if you cant make the full week then its realtivly easy to come up for part of it. If everyone who want to come could get in touch with me then that would be great. Brannock Meet Sec 07919180689 Glencoe trip spaces.There are two spaces left on the MPS Glencoe trip this weekend leaving on Friday (19th) around 5.30 ish, getting two days on the hill in on Saturday and Sunday, then driving back on Sunday night getting back round midnight. Glencoe is a great place, with brillitant walking and scrambling and if the weather stays as it is at the moment then there should be plenty of snow as well (Check out the high up webcams here http://www.glencoemountain.co.uk/webcams.html). Also we are staying just down the road from the Clachaig inn, which is an awesome pub with loads of whiskey. The trip costs £45, that covers transport, accommodation and an evening meal on the Saturday. If you want to go on this trip then please get in touch with me ASAP. Brannock MPS Meet Sec 07919180689. Llanberis trip thanks and Ramsoc bonfireThanks to everyone who came on the Llanberis trip, everyone seams to have had a really good time. Also quick reminder a few of us are gate-crashing the Ramsoc bonfire tonnight (3/11/10), meeting up at 8pm in Mooch before walking/ getting taxis to Gregs house where it is held. Brannock Llanberis Trip Sign UpIts the Llanberis (Snowdonia) trip sign up this tuesday from 8pm at the Hand and Heart which is a great pub in a cave ands worth visiting even if you cant go on the trip(see Socials Diary for a map of where it is). If you really cant make the social then could you please email me. Also if anyone has got pictures from the Lochearnhead trip feel free to put them up. You could add them to the meet report page - ask one of the comittee for the uploading password. Brannock Tuesday-14-September-2010Welcome to MPS Mountaineering. We specialise in all aspects of mountaineering and hill walking, form Fell running, Summer and Winter Hill walking, Ice and Mixed climbing in the Scottish winter through to multipitch climbing and scrambling on Skye and beyond to the Alps. We mainly go to Scotland, though we have been known to visit other mountainous bits of Britain Wales and the Lake District and abroad members have been to the Alps, Pakistan and Peru. Don’t worry if this all sounds a bit much for you, we’ve had members who’ve never been for a big walk before who have gone on to climb in the Alps. Throughout the first term we run weekend trips to Scotland and Wales, and then a whole week to look forward to in Fort William over New Year. Our socials are every Tuesday at pubs around Nottingham (see right side bar) and are a great chance to meet like minded people. Saturday-21-August-2010Former MPS vice-president Fabian today compleated his round of Munros with Ben Lomond - Congratulations on a fine achievement.  Sunday-25-July-2010 - ALPS 2010Most people are now back from the Alps (although some NIPS are still in Switzerland). Check out the Meet Report for the routes that were done. Tuesday-15-June-2010 - The LAMM 2010There were fewer MPS'ers competing this year than we've had in the past but a good time was had by all. The event was held around Glen Fyne, not far from where some people walked on the Crianlarich trip. B Category C Category D Category 19th - Lou and Katherine Young Sunday-16-May-2010. Dreaming of the AlpsI know there are a few people who have applied for Conville course and their are some of us who are desperate to get back to the Alps so I've created a Alps 2010 page so everyone can see when and where everyone else is going. Brannock. Sunday-25-April-2010MPS is running a Rock Skills day in the Peaks on Saturday 8th of May. If you are interested in coming along then e-mail one of the committee members. Wednesday-21-April-2010Its been updated in line with the progressing interests of the club Tuesday-20-April-2010For all who have better things to do than surf the MPS website, I have noticed for you that... the socials diary has been updated. Woop! Greg Thursday-15-April-2010The Munro Tally is on its way to being sorted (unless it is still freaking out and only working on certain computers). So check it out. If there are any mistakes please contact one of the committee members and we try and sort it out. Tuesday-13-April-2010Everyone is back from the Easter Trip safely despite a benightment on the Ben and a trip to Leicestershire to get the minibus. Thanks to everyone that came on the trip who made it so much fun and especially to the drivers! Wednesday-17-March-2010Following the AGM yesterday the 2010/2011 MPS Committee are: President: Ben Jeffreys Vice President: Ben Llewellyn Meets Secretary: John Brannock Treasurer: Greg Martin Mountain Safety Officer: Jonny Midgley Social Secretary: Rob Chuter Well done to everyone who ran and good luck for the year ahead! Thursday-04-March-2010 - Club AGMNominations are now open for all committee positions. Send an email to president@munro-pineapple.org.uk before the AGM itself (Tuesday 16th March)if you want to run. Monday-01-March-2010As some of you may have heard already, due to atrocious weather we were forced to head to the Lakes instead of Braemar. The trip still turned out to be a highly enjoyable affair with some good winter conditions. Thanks a lot to Ben's parents for letting us use their holiday home. Meet Report to come. Wednesday-10-February-2010 - BraemarThe Braemar trip is currently full. However, you can always try your luck on the reserve list. I would also ideally prefer another Minibus driver so if you are out there please get in touch. Tuesday-02-February-2010 - Winter Skills PicturesCheck out Ron Walker's blog - http://www.talisman-activities.co.uk/blog/mountain_diary.htm Wednesday-27-January-2010 - WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERSFollowing a successful Refreshers Fair we now have several new members. Feel free to look around the website and find out more about the club. You can also check out MPS Mountaineering on Facebook. Our next trip is to Braemar (Thursday 25th - Sunday 28th February). The Refreshers Social is in Mooch on Tuesday 2nd February. Wednesday-20-January-2010 - Winter Skills SpacesWe still have 3 spaces left on the Walking Course and 2 available for people who just want to come along and do their own thing. Please spread the word. Wednesday-13-January-2010 - WINTER SKILLSThe sign-up for Winter Skills will be at the Rose and Crown on Tuesday 19th at 8pm. TRIP DATES: Thursday 28th - Sunday 31st January 2010. Walking Course: £95 Climbing Course: £100 Own thing: £55 All cheques to be made out to U of N SU MPS. Ideally I would like to see you all on Tuesday but if you really cannot make it but still want to come send me an email - president@munro-pineapple.org.uk. Tuesday-05-January-2010LAMM entries are now open. This is a really fun event and if your up for a challenge you should really consider entering!! Wednesday-25-November-2009We are planning on having a Christmas meal on Tuesday the 8th of December at 7.00 at the Sir John Borlase Warren. It is a three course meal and costs £17.50. If anyone is interested in coming please contact Ben J as there are very few spaces left. My number is on your membership card!! Friday-20-November-2009- New Year Sign-upWe are heading to the far north of Scotland and staying in a bunkhouse just south of Ullapool. There will be Munros, climbing and hopefully a good deal of snow. Is there a better way to spend New Year? Sign-up at The Grove this coming Tuesday, 8pm. More information to follow. Tuesday-17-November-2009 - Navigation TrainingThe theory session is taking place tonight at 7.30pm in Portland C53. All members are welcome to attend. Thursday-12-November-2009 - High Peak MarathonWe are already entering one team this year. Entries close on November 30th if anyone is interested - http://www.highpeakclub.union.shef.ac.uk/hpm/. Wednesday-11-November-2009Hope everyone enjoyed Lochearnhead. Where are all the photos? Thursday-29-October-2009 - LOCHEARNHEADThe Lochearnhead trip is now full. More information will be emailed to you all shortly so keep checking your inbox. Pick-up will be either from the Savoy Cinema at 4.45 or at Stores at 5pm (Friday 6th November). Thursday-22-October-2009After looking into some upsetting rumours it appears to be true that there are now only 283 munros!!! Unfortunatly Sgurr Nan Ceannaichean has now become a Corbet at only 913.4m. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8248904.stm Tuesday-20-October-2009The first trip of the year went really well and the meet report has now been started. The next trip will see MPS return to its spiritual home as we head to Lochearnhead. See the Meets Diary for more information. Sign-up will be on Tuesday 27th October at the Johnson Arms. Monday-08-June-2009 - The LAMM12 MPS'ers old and new were competing at the lamm in Kintail last weekend. We had few lamm virgins and a few others having a go at some higher categories. No prizes were won this year but we were treated with great weather, great views and great courses so a fun time was had by all. Here are our results: A Category B Category C Category D Category Well done to everyone! Hopefully we can have a few more new faces next year - ask Greg and Ben how much fun they had. Greg has written a little report of the weekend in the Meets Diary. Saturday-30-May-2009: SKYEThere are still spaces available on the Skye trip: Sunday 21st - Sunday 28th June. See Meets Diary and get in touch for more information. Thursday-02-April-2009I have finally got round to updating some of the Munro Tally, have a look to see what you've climbed this year. Lots of Love Ben Tuesday-31-March-2009Just to announce that Easter was a real success (see Meet report)and that the next MPS trip will be Rock Skills on 2nd May, see Meets Diary for more information. Wednesday-11th-March-2009Well done to all the new committee members. They all will carry on the MPS legend I'm sure! President: Phil Peel Tuesday-10th-March-2009: MPS AGMIt has come to the time of year for the MPS AGM. The event will be held on the 10th March, 8pm at the Happy Return If you want to run for a committee position, email
Tuesday-10-February-2009: New site locationThis website has moved onto the new SU server (notice the "su-web2" in the url). This means there should be no more problems with not being able to edit. However, as with any move operation of this kind glitches can occur - please report anything you see here. Tuesday-03-February-2009: Alpine DreamingIn recent years, members and ex-members of MPS have been meeting up in the Alps during the summer break. Mountaineering does not end in Scotland; if you think you are up to the challenge then why not check out the Alps planning page or ask the committee... Monday-02-February-2009 : FOUNDAfter the weekend, a single outdoor designs goretex glove, and a hat from Dickies were found on the bus. Please email me so I can bring them to the social for you to pick up....
Monday-12-January-2009: Winter SkillsDear All, We’ve just finalised the Winter Skills Trip details. This is an annual trip where we hire UIAA certified mountain guides to teach the essentials of how to walk and climb safely in the mountains in winter. It’s our biggest, most popular and most heavily subsidised trip of the year meaning that we can get loads of you out on the hill. The basic run-down of the trip is: Thursday evening pickup & drive up, Friday and Saturday, Talisman Guides will take us into the Northern Corries of the Cairgorms. (see ukclimbing database). We'll also feed you on the Friday and Saturday evenings. Sunday we'll go out on the hill on our own to put our new skills into practise before driving home. There are two levels of course available; Introductory Mountaineering and Introductory Climbing. These are suited to different levels of previous experience, although can be somewhat tailored to YOUR needs. We will try to group different levels of ability and have a beginners and improvers in separate teams. For example, if four experienced climbers sign up for the winter climbing and four novice climbers we will create a Beginners winter climbing and Improvers winter climbing. At the end of the day the guides will be happy to answer almost any questions you have, so you'll get out of it what you want to. Intro Winter Mountaineering £85 (Winter Hillwalking Skills) for two Groups of six people. Course requirements: No previous experience required apart from summer hillwalking. Further details can be found on the Talisman Activites website. Intro Winter Climbing £95 (Winter Mountaineering Skills) for two Groups of four people. Course requirements: A high standard of fitness together with previous winter skills and some outdoor summer climbing preferred. The ability to belay, quickly tie into a climbing harness using a figure of eight and familiarity with clove hitch knots when setting up belays is essential. Familiarity with using nuts and hexes in summer rock climbing is useful. Previous winter skills and the use of crampons and an ice axe when winter walking is also essential. Further details can be found on the Talisman Activities website. If you think the prices seem high then can I draw you attention to this page on the guides website. Hiring the guides privately would cost you around twice as much as we are charging and that wouldn't include food/accommodation/transport. Please check the Kit List, in particular for this trip you should have crampon compatible boots. Please bring your boots along if you are not sure whether they are suitable for crampons, (it is possible to hire boots whilst we are there for a small fee if you don't have any suitable). It is possible and normally the case that participants borrow technical equipment(axes/crampons/harnesses/helmets/etc etc) at no extra charge; you shouldn't feel that because you don't have the kit you can't come! The Signup is on Tuesday 13th January at 8pm at the Johnson Arms. Please bring your money with you to guarantee your place (Cheque preferred, cash OK). Finally, the first places on this trip will go to new members who have been on a trip so far this year. Sorry if this seems unfair to anyone but this decision was made in the interest of the progression of the club. If you're not one of those people then don't worry too much because a quick add-up of likely numbers tells me that this won't fill all the available spaces. There may also be some space available for people to come along and not participate in a course; you will, however, have to make your own plans of what to do, and we would expect you to have sufficient previous experience... If you want to know anything more about the trip then feel free to email Chris or Vince. Vince (MPSPRES) Monday-22-December-2008: NEW YEAR UPDATEThe New year trip is set to leave Campus at 10am on the 27th December. Please Don't be late, you might miss out on the best week away ever! Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year, Vince Wednesday-26-November-2008 Sign Up TimeSign ups for the Christmas meal and New Year will both be next week, Tuesday 2nd December. Have your cheque books at the ready, it will be well worth it. Sunday-26-October-2008 OMMRemember mountain marathons are undertaken at your own risk and as a competitors you have to be ready to deal with the conditions. But was it just a massive media overreaction? Tuesday-21-October-2008 SNOW!It is beginning to snow in Scotland! The current fall probably won't last long but it is a good sign for the rest of the winter season. Our next trip to Scotland is: CRIANLARICH 21st -23rd November Saturday-04-October-2008: Lochearnhead Spaces AvailableI hope everyone enjoyed the first social of the year and I am looking forward to seeing everyone next week. If you hadn't received an email about it already, there are only now two places left on the Lochearnhead Trip. Anyone is welcome to come, provided they have the basic essential equipment and can pay before everyone else. It will be a really fun trip with a range of lengths of walks to enjoy a day out on the hills or test your endurance! So come along, send me an email if you are interested. Vince Sunday-22-June-2008 - Post Skye NewsSkye was a really successful trip and included all sorts of shenanigans.... If anyone would like to write (or at least start) a meet report that would be awesome. Best wishes to all who are leaving us this year, and I hope everyone else is feeling psyched for next year! I'm off to the Alps so enjoy your summers'. Vince 9th June 08Congratulations to Chris and Hamish for finishing 5th on the LAMM B course - the best ever result by an MPS team in 6 years of LAMM. Franco 19th May 06 - Exams over soonSomething to whet your appetite for the Skye trip: Have a look here Chris Tuesday-06-May-2008GEAR RECALL I still haven't had gear back from some people. Please contact me and tell me when you plan to return it. ALPS GEAR Also, if you require gear for the alps please let me know asap as I won't be around after lamm. Hamish 4th May 08 - Shoot to KillLatest news on the restrictions the Chinese are putting on Everest: The World is Going Mad. Chris 24th April 08 - New Website ContentYou may have noticed that founding member Simon Waddicor has been putting a lot of effort into adding new material to the website recently. If you always wanted to know how the club started, why we have a ridiculous name, exactly where the pineapples are etc ect, then have a look at some of these pages:
Chris Saturday 12th April 08It would be good if everyone thinking of/planning on coming to Alp this summer can make it to the pub this Tuesday: see The Alps 08 page. Chris Tuesday-25-March-2008Rock Skills Day date change.... Just incase anyone had planned ahead, we have changed the date for the rockskills day. It is now going to be the 3rd May, a nice pre-exam break just before its too late. This is due to unforeseen Hamish activity. Furthermore;
I hope to see everyone at the first social back, Vince 10th March 2008 - Entries are now open for the LAMMYou've probably heard LAMM mentioned several times over the year. If you haven't, have a look at the Meets Diary and the LAMM website for more information. If you think you might want to enter, talk to me about it and I'll convince you that you definitely do! We had 3 MPS teams last year and it would be good to have at least the same again this year, if only for the company at the mid-camp! Chris 10th March 2008 - Team MPS does the HPMFor those that don't know Vince, Hamish, Joe and I raced in the High Peak Marathon on Friday night.  Things went well but unfortunately Joe peaked a little too early and started to feel the pain on Derwent Edge. We limped over Bleaklow to Snake Pass where Joe got the bus back while the rest of finished the route over Kinder, Brown Knoll and Mam Tor to the finish. We still managed a time of just over 13 hours which we very pleased with. The winners were Team Vasque North who got round in 9hrs 13mins. I don't think you can understand quite how impressive this until you've trudged over Bleaklow at 5am, upto your shins in mud! Maybe next year? Chris 5th March 2008 - A new committeeFollowing the AGM last night MPS is now to be looked after by the following:
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