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Participants: Baptiste, John, Stefan, Amber, Heather, Aurélie, Andy Bu, Andy Bo, Flo, Cat, Christabel, Kate, Katie, Cammy, Rory, Miles and a hedgehog. Mostly written from Baptiste’s point of view.   Have you heard about the Trois Monts route on Mont Blanc? This year, the LMC Alpine Meet returned to France, with the Chamonix valley selected […]

Written by John Cunningham Participants: John, Vicky, Aurelie, Alan, Stefan, Amber, Cammy (Cinders), Flo, Tom, Christabel, Miles, Kate, Evi, Heather, Scott, Baptiste, Chris M Not soon after the 2025 Chamonix trip, an eager group of Lomonder holiday-goers were keen for a follow-up Winter holiday. With a fairly washout 24/25 Winter season, a trip to a

A photo competition was held this year, the prize being a Tiso voucher, a framed print of the winning photo, and a LMC gold trophy, all presented at the annual club ceilidh. Here are this year’s entries. Winning photo: Vicky celebrating the sun coming out on the Aiguille d’Entréves. 📸: Alan Rowe (climber: Vicky Herbert)

By Baptiste Poursat Winter finally arrived, at least until it melts again. This month, the club visited Muir Cottage, owned by the Cairngorm Club and located near Braemar. With snow and freezing temperatures forecast, a motivated group arrived at the hut on Thursday evening. One team, Aurelie, John, Alan and Baptiste, planned to climb in

By Steven Johnson In Glen Etive there are two huts, one at the end of the glen near Loch Etive called the Smiddy and another higher up the glen called Inbhirfhaolain. The Smiddy was in the club calendar for October, and once the call for attendees had been made it had become well over subscribed.

By Baptiste Poursat Our new September tradition is a weekend on Skye. We always gamble on the weather, and we always have a great time. Everyone arrived on Friday, more or less early. After a quick dinner, a few club members brought out their instruments, rain was forecast all weekend, so an improvised trad session,

By Baptiste Poursat Participants: Baptiste, Mia, Cat, Alan, Vicky, Rory, Stefan, John, Aurelie, Scott, Cammy, Heather, Ethan, Eilidh, Craig, Evi Two weeks, sixteen climbers, one ghoul, and more missed lifts than we’ll admit, that was LMC’s Alpine Week 2025. This year, once again, LMC members migrated to higher altitudes and sunnier latitudes for two weeks

Participants: Mike, Maddie, Christine, Euan, Stephen M, Davide, Fraser R By Christine Bonham The weekend kicked off with everyone arriving at the villa – sorry, er, the Riasg Hut – Friday evening. With a forecast of 28°C on the cards for Saturday, the group had a wholesome Friday night, keeping energy in the bank for

By John Cunningham Participants: Cammy, Aurelie, Rory (and Aisling), Ruth, Katie, Baptiste, Evi, Andy (and Rachelle, Regi the Spaniel), Corin, Cat, Justin, Leslie-Anne (and Jude), Stefan, John On the Thursday evening Aurelie, Ruth, Baptiste and John met up with Cat and Katie at the Glen Rosa campsite, who were exploring different methods of building the

Written by John Cunningham. An optimistic snow emoji sat on the CIC Winter meets chat title which unfortunately did not meet emoji expectations. After a second turbo thaw without consolidation the Winter season seemed bleak but did not falter an 8 Lomonder strong meet to the CIC. A typical “rack’n’rope” became “rack’n’roast” with a team