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Outdoor News Craven Mountaineering Club
Useful
Links:
UKC Forums - BMC Area Crag Access
Link		 Skipton Info. Dales Info.

Weather and Conditions:

  • The revamped   Met Office - forcasts and more

  • Met Check - gives you a forecast for a specific location in 3 hour intervals, (default is for Skipton)

  • 10 day forecasts - from the Weather Channel

  • Yahoo - Weather forecast

  • BBC weather centre - A current satellite image and text forecasts for today, and a general outlook.

  • Winternet Scotland Mountain Image Report - Regular images of the winter mountains - useful in assessing conditions.

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    Mountains and Climbing:

  • Mountain Zone - Another site worth a visit.

  • Planetfear - Another site well worth a visit.

  • Tuans' Mountaineering Page - This has some excellent information in it, including some about Mt.McKinley.

  • The Hills of Great Britain and Ireland - A searchable database with information about more than 2600 hills and mountains in Great Britain and Ireland (inc. Munros and tops, Corbetts, Donalds etc...)

  • UK Climbing - The central source for information about climbing in the UK, including guides, climbing walls, grades and more.

  • Bluedome - A HUGE site, devoted to outdoor pursuits of all kinds.

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    Climbing Walls - information links:

    NB. The BMC info includes a map facility

    CLIMBING WALLS: BMC info
    Guiseley Wall BMC info
    Huddersfield Wall BMC info
    Ingleton Wall BMC info
    Leeds Wall BMC info
    The Edge, Sheffield BMC info
    The NW Face, Warrington BMC info
    Kendal Wall BMC info
    The Foundry, Sheffield BMC info

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    Organisations:

  • The British Mountaineering Council

  • The John Muir Trust

  • Yorkshire Dales Green Lane Alliance

  • Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association

  • Cave Rescue Organisation

  • Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team

  • Craven Mountaineering Club - Local BMC affiliated club covering the Craven area.

  • Gritstone Club

  • Burnley Mountaineering Club

  • The Climbers Club

  • Scottish Mountaineering Club

  • The Alpine Club - Hut Recipricol Rights Card and other useful benefits, (but no insurance cover).

  • Austrian Alpine Club - Hut Recipricol Rights Card, rescue & repatriation insurance cover.

  • CAF - info about the French Alpine Club, including hut details (in french)

  • British Mountain Guides - Lots of information about the professionals here.

  • Plas y Brenin - The National Mountain Centre in Wales. Courses etc.

  • Glenmore Lodge - The National Mountain Centre in Scotland. Courses etc.

  • Mountain Leader Training Board - Official site of the MLTB.

  • Mountain Bothies Association - Information including the bothy code and membership details.

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    Magazines & Publishers:

    Climber
    Climb     (was: 'High-Mountain' & 'On the Edge')
    Cicerone
    Cordee

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    Services:

  • Footloose Adventure Travel (Ilkley) - Help with organising 'adventure' holidays. Also very good 'off the shelf' trips.

  • Snowcard Insurance - Flexible insurance scheme which can work out to be cheaper and more comprehensive than the BMC alternative.

  • Lancashire Sports Repairs Ltd. - This Burnley company repairs all makes of outdoor footwear, clothing and equipment       - well worth a look at their website

  • Feet First - Good boot repairers, especially of rock boots.

  • Shoecare - This firm offers a repair, renovation and reproofing service for shoes, boots, tents, clothing, etc.

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    Other shops in the Skipton & Craven area:

  • Inglesport - of Ingleton, excellent for Caving.

  • Castleberg Sports - in Settle.

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