Welcome
Based in Aberdeen, the Club was founded in 1887 and is the oldest and one of the largest hillwalking and climbing club in Scotland. Its coat-of-arms was granted in 1965. Its objectives are to encourage mountaineering, with special reference to the Cairngorm mountains; to promote competence, safety, knowledge and responsibility of attitude amongst mountaineers; to offer opportunities to engage in that pursuit in company with others; to impart information concerning mountains; to keep under review rights of access to Scottish mountains; and to issue publications. Its members have from time to time included a number of climbers of repute, but most are simply hillwalkers with interests ranging from cross-country walks, through more strenuous hillwalking (and unashamed Munro-bagging), to serious rock and ice-climbing.
The Club arranges one-day meets, known as Day Meets (though a few are “Overnighters”!), roughly every fourth weekend throughout the year. They are usually advertised by reference to a particular mountain or walking route, but not everyone need tackle that particular objective, and there is no question of Day Meet participants going there in one large group. Destinations are as varied as possible, going farthest afield in the longer daylight hours of summer.
Membership of the Cairngorm Club brings you a number of benefits, including:
o Regular meets throughout the year, e.g.
o monthly day (usually Sundays) meets to the hills
o monthly week-end meets, usually to huts or hostels in Scotland
o monthly social meets (e.g. indoor slide-show talks) during the winter
o Tuesday and Wednesday evening climbing meets to cliffs near Aberdeen or Transition Extreme climbing wall (see Meets Calendar for details)
The Club ‘hut’, known as Muir of Inverey, is situated at OS grid reference NO076896 some 8 kilometres west of Braemar, on the north side of the Linn of Dee road. It is available for use by Club members and guests accompanying them and also by members of other recognised climbing clubs, with whom it is much in demand for weekends throughout the year. Bookings must be made to the Huts Booking Secretary, and early booking is always advisable