Club members Linda Reid and Viv Thorburn will give an illustrated account of their latest trip to the Himalayas. 8.00 pm, Tuesday 29th January 2019 Station Hotel Function Room, Stonehaven. Non-members most welcome. Admission £2
Raymond Marshall Award This award goes to the winner of the Best Photograph taken during the year and will be judged by a professional Photographer. Email your photo to rogjan.owen@gmail.com, remember to include your name, the location and the date the photo was taken. To be submitted by 15th March latest. Photos must …
Stonehaven Mountaineering and Hillwalking Club article By Roger Owen, full magazine edition available online here and also featured pages 60-62 on attached extract PDF.
Starting with a small walk from the Station Hotel, Stonehaven leaving 11am, Please contact Steve if coming. Tea at the Marine Hotel at 6pm – remember to check the menu on their website. We are pre-booking our supper so we can be finished by 7:00 pm in time for the pub crawl. …
We are hosting a Curry Night on Friday 22nd March 2019 with all proceeds going to Mend our Mountains. Members to cook curry – Venue 19 martin Place, Stonehaven. (Annes House) Please contact Anne if interested in coming along.
No other Munro is better known for its subsidiary top. Carn Cloich-mhuilinn is the one that got away, for Hugh Munro had been keeping this for the last one, but he died without completing the Munros and tops. It is 942m, but the rise from Beinn Bhrotain, to the NW, …
“SMHC – The Last 40 Years” Club member Jack Mitchell will give an illustrated talk highlighting the Club’s 40 year history. Of particular note will be the dramatic development in outdoor clothing during this period. 8.00 pm, Tuesday 27th November 2018 Station Hotel Function Room, Stonehaven. Non-members most welcome. Admission …
The longest running mountain film festival in the UK. An international program of speakers including Cameron mcneish. For more information please check www.dmff.org.uk
Great Scottish Journeys Keith Fergus Join landscape photographer Keith Fergus as he takes you around the country on 12 Great Scottish Journeys. Based on his book of the same name Keith’s images highlight Scotland’s outstanding and diverse landscape, from the gentle delights of the Crinan Canal to the unique and spectacular topography …
Climbing Wall Prices & Info Full details from the Transition Extreme Website There will be a messenger group where you can add your details if you wish to attend one evening. prices are on the PDF above and details of the Climbing Wall available via their website. Please contact Paula …
Map No 37 If going please contact John McPherson on 07772981042 Meet in the square at 7:00am The Cabrach is a unique and beautiful location rich in cultural heritage, typified by its haunting landscape and the great numbers of tumble down crofts and steadings, which today litter this upland plateau. …
6 places booked on the Isle of Mull Bunkhouse located close to Craignure Ferry Terminal. £20 pppn. There are a variety of hills to visit – Mull boasts one Munro, one Corbett and seven Grahams. The six places booked at Craignure Bunkhouse for 13th & 14th September have now been …
Waterfront Bunkhouse at Carbost For more information contact Anne Sinclair – 4 nights still available for 2 people. Pay SMHC and inform Steve when you have paid (Treasurer)
Grid Ref 594416, Map No. 51 Ben Lawers is the 10th highest mountain in the UK and the highest in the Southern Highlands. The mountain is at the centre of a chain of 7 Munros which fit people can walk in one day. The NTS have installed a large car-park and …
Grid Ref 037493, Map No 25 Gerry’s Hostel is the oldest independent hostel in Scotland. It was originally built as two semi-detached cottages to house rail workers and their families when the West Coast Railway was created. The railway line is on one side of the hostel, the road on the …
Map 44, Grid Ref 310851 “England! thy beauties are tame and domestic, to one who has roved o’er the mountains afar. Oh, for the crags that is wild and majestic! The steep frowning glories of dark Lochnagar!” So wrote Lord Byron who climbed Lochnagar from Invercauld by the Garbh Allt, …
The splendid Torridon youth hostel, sitting at the foot of the Torridon hills and overlooking Liathach, is the venue for the SHMC weekend outing on 7th / 8th June 2019. A private room (5 people) has been secured for the club members and more spaces may be available depending on …
15 Mar Road, Braemar, AB35 5YL Cost £20 plus any expenses for the supper. (21 people booked – Soup prepared by Karen, Neeps & Tatties by Liz, Haggis by Kenny & Christine, Pudding by Anne and also The Program by Diane) Reminder to those going – Take sleeping bag ! …
Venue: Station Hotel Function Room Stonehaven at 8pm New Cost £2 and New Time 8pm 30th October 2018 Aberdeen Mountain Rescue Team: (Don’t Go Home by Accident!) Kenny Webster 27th November 2018 : SMHC – the Last 40 Years Jack Mitchell 29th January 2019 : Trekking to Everest Base Camp and Gokyo Lakes, …
Map 42, Grid Ref 628793 Enough Munros to keep anyone going in a day on either side of the pass with a good high start and a couple or three Corbetts for those heading down that route. Either a bike to return to the start along the Sustrans route through …