You wouldn’t climb without checking your knot…so make sure you don’t set off for the crag without checking the BMC Regional Access Database 🤓
The RAD has all the latest bird restrictions and crag access updates 🪺
Google BMC RAD + crag name for a job done! 🤠
Wes Cole likes challenges. He has done the Marathon des Sables 🐪 and this year completed the Winter Spine 🥶. Come and hear him speak at the next Peak Area meeting on the 6th May at the Outside cafe in Hathersage. The meeting starts at 7pm, but come from 6.30 to socialise 🍟 . All welcome!
“The Winter Spine Race: 268 Miles Along the Pennine Way.”
Local climber and runner Wes Cole shares his experience of completing the full 268-mile 2026 Winter Spine Race, exploring the highs, lows and lessons from one of Britain’s toughest endurance challenges.
If you love walking, this one's for you!
We're excited to announce the BMC Big Walking Weekend – an unforgettable walking festival from 29–31 May in the stunning Peak District.
Whether you’re a seasoned hiker or just getting started this is your chance to:
✨ Take part in guided walks
✨ Boost your skills with navigation, hill skills and first-aid workshops
✨ Enjoy inspiring talks
✨ Meet like-minded walkers and make lifelong memories
Tickets include catered meals and accommodation – or grab a day-ticket if you can’t stay the whole weekend.
📍 Based at @yhaedale in the Peak District, with nationwide walks too!
👉 Grab your spot. Comment 'Walking Weekend' below and we'll send you the link to find out more. (link also in bio)
🌳Join us for some @teambmc GET STUCK IN! upland conservation volunteering in broadleaf woodlands - helping National Trust with tree maintenance - in the Peak District on 29th March.
🔴This joint BMC and Mountain Training Association event offers plenty of opportunity to learn from both experienced upland conservation rangers about woodland and wider upland conservation while also making a valuable contribution to the conservation of National Trust's Kinder and High Peak Estate.
(Following links also via Linktr.ee in my profile.)
If you're a paid up Mountain Training Association member and want to earn a CPD point then sign up here 🔗
https://mt.tahdah.me/event/detail/1377038If
Alternatively if you're a BMC member then sign up here instead🔗
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#GetStuckIn #MendOurMountains #BMCadventures
Yesterday was a bit different… I left the dogs at home and headed out for a soggy day on the moors 🌧️🐾
I joined a volunteer day organised by the Eastern Moors Partnership and the BMC, and 15 of us planted a whopping 5,400 sphagnum plugs on Burbage Moor 💚🌱 Rewetting and restoring the peatland might not look glamorous, but it’s such important work for carbon storage, biodiversity and keeping our moors healthy.
We got properly wet, muddy and a little bit cold… but regular breaks for tea and biscuits kept morale high ☕🍪 There’s something quite brilliant about standing in the drizzle, dripping wet, surrounded by good people having a laugh.
After a busy few days with lots of people around, it was actually the perfect kind of therapy for me, quiet, purposeful time outside, listening to the team chatting away while I got stuck into planting.
Definitely up for doing it again 🙌 The next volunteer day is 22nd February if anyone fancies getting muddy for a good cause, let me know and I’ll share the details! 💚
🔥Let's protect the moors before the spark. Now hiring!
We’re proud to be funding the first ever dedicated Wildfire Ranger for the Peak District’s Eastern Moors, working to protect much-loved climbing and walking areas like Froggatt, Curbar and Burbage.
Wildfire has already devastated over 50 football pitches of moorland here in the last two years. In a changing climate, prevention is everything. This new role will patrol high-risk areas, engage visitors, support volunteers and help stop wildfires before they start.
📢 Now hiring!
Know someone perfect for this role? The Wildfire Ranger job application is now live! 🔗 Link in bio
Applications close 8 February. Please share far and wide.
Together, we can help protect these special places for wildlife, climate and everyone who loves being outdoors.
💚 BMC Access & Conservation Trust
📍 Froggatt Edge. Photo credit: Villager Jim
Help us raise £50,000 for this iconic climbing hut 🛖
The Don Whillans Hut is carved straight into the rock at The Roaches and it’s been part of British climbing history for generations. It’s open to BMC and @mountaineeringscotland members to use today (from just £11 a night!), offering one of the most unique hut stays in the UK.
This fundraiser will help fund sustainable upgrades such as:
⭐ Better insulation
⭐ Improved energy efficiency
⭐ Upgrade water pumps
⭐ Replace broken tiles
⭐ Enhance experience of comfort
A building with real heritage like this deserves careful work upgrades so it can be enjoyed for decades to come.
If you care about climbing history, hut culture, or giving future climbers the same unforgettable experience, please consider donating or sharing this fundraiser..
Every contribution makes a difference.
👉 Donate via the link in bio.
The first Peak area meeting of 2026 will be held in the cafe at Outside in Hathersage on 21st January.
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Legendary alpine hard man & renowned choss-wrangler Mick Fowler will be giving a talk entitled “Back in the day...”
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As ever it is free but please book via Eventbrite, *but only if you’re definitely coming* as capacity is limited. Link in bio!
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All are welcome! The meeting starts at 7pm but come early to socialise. There will be a bottle bar and maybe some food.
Today's @bmc_peak hill walk marked the debut of our new area Hill Walking Volunteer Rep. Alex Davis-Ward (seen here on the left of this photograph) - welcome Alex! - with a 3 Ethels walk that crossed Abney, Offerton and Eyam Moors. The group were treated to super views, especially from this, the summit trig on Sir William Hill.
Look out for more Area social walks announcements next year, as Alex gets stuck into his new role.
Photo taken by @teambmc hill walking coordinator Josh Harris.
#BMCadventures #BMChillwalks #hillwalking #hiking
The first Peak area meeting of 2026 will be held in the cafe at Outside in Hathersage on 21st January.
📅
Legendary alpine hard man & renowned choss-wrangler Mick Fowler will be giving a talk entitled “Back in the day...”
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As ever it is free but please book via Eventrbrite Ss capacity is limited. Link in bio!
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All are welcome! The meeting starts at 7pm but come early to socialise. There will be a bottle bar and maybe some food.
Darley Dale Town Council are going to install a kids climbing wall in a park and are asking for your feedback.
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Link in bio! Consultation closes 7th November.
🎵 Old oak trees, it’s just plain to see, you need space to breathe, and then you will thrive!
Thanks to the great work of BMC volunteers, @mt_association and @nationaltrust in the heart of the Upper Derwent Valley, oak trees were given a fighting chance. Oak trees - who support perhaps the largest number of other species in the woodlands - struggle to compete with the fast-growing birches.
By carefully clearing space, our volunteers are helping these biodiversity powerhouses to breathe 🫁
While it didn’t immediately feel good to be killing these living trees, @peakdistrictnt informed the volunteers about the natural process in woodlands before humans came along was for large animals, mostly herbivores (now absent in the UK), to crash about breaking and felling some trees as they went, thereby creating these clearances that we were now manually creating in their absence and a mosaic of denser and more open areas would have been the norm.
Want to get involved? More conservation volunteering opportunities are coming up this autumn and winter in the Peak District. Check out the BMC volunteering page via the link in our bio 🔝
