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Photos

If you take any photos whilst out on club trips and are happy to give up your rights to them, we'd love to have them on our flickr account! The easiest way is to send them a few at a time as email attachments to wrote22form@photos.flickr.com and we'll do the rest (it would help if you could also send an email to the club address mountaineering@hw.ac.uk just to let us know you've uploaded something.)

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Equipment stockists in Edinburgh on the Internet

There are several shops in Edinburgh that cater for the mountaineer. The best way to find out the low down is to speak to those who have been about a while and undoubtedly bought gear from all of them at some point in time. Some of these nice people even give discounts for students! (well, that information might actually be out-of-date... Let us know if it doesn't work anymore or if the staff does not know about it).

Aktive8 - 103 Lothian Road [map] - 10% discount with student ID. HWUMC membership card will be proof enough.

Blacks - 24 Frederick Street [map] - 10% discount with student ID

Nevisport - 19 Rose Street [map] - 10% discount with student ID

Tiso - - Discount nights only, you will be informed in due time on either the forum or via email.

  • 123-125 Rose Street [map]
  • 41 Commercial Street [map]
  • Adventure Centre - Ratho

Buachaille - Outdoor gear price comparison and reviews climbers-shop.com - An other site where you can find lots of stuff! Climbing in and around Edinburgh If you are keen on climbing more than the club's Tuesday sessions at the Sports Centre, Edinburgh and surrounding area offers a great range of opportunities.

Indoor climbing

  • Heriot Watt Sports Centre - The cheapest climbing wall in town, and on our own doorstep! Old style climbing wall that will eventually give you fingers of steel! Click here for a topographic description.
  • The Ratho Adventure Centre - http://www.adventurescotland.com/. The RAC is 5 km from the Riccarton Campus and is the largest indoor climbing arena in the World - prepare to pick your jaw up off the floor when you walk in!
  • Alien Rock 1 - 8 Pier Place - http://www.alienrock.co.uk. A converted old church in the Trinity area of Edinburgh is now 10 years old, and continues to be a favourite within the Edinburgh climbing scene!
  • Alien Rock 2 - West Bowling Green St - http://www.alienrock.co.uk. This is Scotland’s largest indoor bouldering wall, 10 minutes up the road from AR1.

Local crags

  • All described in the SMC Guidebook, "Lowland Outcrops"
  • Rosyth Quarry - situated just across the Forth Road Bridge Blackford Hill - for gardening(!)
  • Salisbury Crags - Bouldering only - it’s a Royal Park, and people in uniform get upset at the sight of a rope
  • Traprain Law - near Haddington, for polishing connoisseurs.
  • North Berwick Law Quarry - including some strenuous Sport routes Aberdour - a sea cliff known as The Hawkcraig