NLMC Meets Calendar for 2026

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Yes folks here we go, your annual dose of wait what, but why aren’t we going to Yosemite?? ahem I mean the Meets Calendar. Principal organiser, if confirmed, in brackets.

MARCH
14/15 - Peak Bouldering (Matthias Sotiras)
28/29 - Spring Working Meet (John Wallbank)
APRIL
18/19 - Spring New Members Meet (Lottie Ion)
25/26 - Peak Meet
MAY
2-4 - (BH) Ladies Meet tbc
16/17 - Wye Valley Meet
23/25 - (BH) Lakes Meet
JUNE
6-14 - Ireland Trad Meet (James Archer)
20/21 - Solstice Meet - Cornwall
JULY
4/5 - 70th Anniversary Meet (Martin Bull)
11/19 - Alps Meet - (probably) Ailefroide
25/26 - Special meet to be confirmed - Pembroke

~25 July - 2nd August - Families Meet~

AUGUST
15/16 - Devon Meet
29/31 - (BH) Pembroke Meet
SEPTEMBER
12/13 - Autumn New Members Meet (Lottie Ion)
26/27 - Western Grit
OCTOBER
17/18 - Autumn Working Meet (John Wallbank)
NOVEMBER
14/15 - AGM to be confirmed (Matt Grange)

In addition to this lot, there is a Whatsapp chat thread for the Scottish winter activities, and a few Euro sport trips being tentatively plotted over the Easter period.

Naturally if there’s a meet you really want to run and you want it official, reply here.

If you’d like to run one of these Meets, please get in touch with @BenWhetton !

The actual calendar on the club website will be updated when we can get around to it….

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Thanks. I should be down on the list for the 70th bash.

When I organised the 50th we initially had 100 persons.However h hotel had a room nxt door to the hall that held 30. We took that so 130 bods sat down to a meal. cheers. Akllen Bordoley

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I’ve updated the website (though not the Google calendar yet).

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I’ve updated the official NLMC google calendar with the 2026 meets. Adding this calendar to your (e.g. Google) calendar is better than adding the standalone ICS file that Aurelio created because you only have to add it once and it will automatically update. See Meets - North London Mountaineering Club for more information and a link to the instructions to add it to Google calendars.

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Hi Dave.
Do you know where the Irish meet is going to be held?
Richard

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I wondered too. From the organser:

The plan is to go to the chunk of Donegal between Derrybeg and Dungloe - so gives people options to go to coastal crags on Cruit, Inishdfree etc, or get the ferries over to Aran, Owey etc. There seems to be a really good spread of options at all grades within a small area, provided we can get enough drivers.

It’s covered in the Mountaineering Ireland book which has a new edition due any day now https://www.needlesports.com/Catalogue/Books-Media/Guidebooks/Ireland/Rock-Climbing-in-Donegal - if it’s delayed much longer I’ll suggest a location to stay so we can get it locked in (there seem to be limited campsites)

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Sounds good but eye watering ferry prices.
Richard