South Wales Mountaineering Club | Clwb Dringo De Cymru

The South Wales Mountaineering Club was established in 1960 and aims to encourage interest in mountaineering in all its forms and to bring together like minded people interested in mountaineering. The club's activities range from mountaineering and rock climbing to scrambling and hill walking, catering for all level of experience including total beginners.

With approximately 150 members, we have branches in Cardiff and Swansea who meet regularly to climb indoors and out.

The club organises a number of meets to climbing areas throughout Britain and occasionally further afield. There are also a number of specialist introductory meets organised for those with little or no experience.

Membership is open to anyone aged 18 or over (7 - 17 for junior members). We are affiliated to the BMC.

The club operates regular weekly meets on Wednesday evenings, climbing at local crags during the summer and indoor climbing centres during the winter, and arranges a number of trips further afield throughout the year. Please see the meets page for further details.

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Cardiff (East) Weekly Meets

The East members meet every Wednesday through the summer to climb on local crags in South East Wales or the Wye Valley. Contact between members and notification of the chosen crag or crags being either available on the Bulletin Board or individually made known to members by text message. Please check with a member (not John Custance) before meeting at Asda. The meeting point at Asda is in the North West corner (nearest to the filling station) of the Asda car park, Coryton interchange (M4 junction 32), North Cardiff in time to leave at 18:00 to climb on local crags in South East Wales or the Wye Valley.

If this will be your first time with the club, are a non-member or a novice, please contact John Custance.

In winter we meet at the Boulders Climbing Centre in Cardiff or the Summit Centre in Trelewis each Wednesday from 19:00 onwards.

The East members are currently following their winter schedule.

Swansea (West) Weekly Meets

West members meet every Wednesday through the summer at the Mike Davies Leisure, 665/667 Gower Road, Upper Killay, SA2 7HE, at 17:30 to climb on Gower. If you cannot make 17:30, Joe Gallacher will wait till you arrive, please ring or text him on 07715366335

In winter we meet at the Dynamic Rock climbing centre in Clydach each Wednesday from 18:30 onwards.

The West members are currently following their summer schedule.

If this will be your first time with the club, are a non-member or a novice, please contact Tim Boothby.

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