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and pictures on the club and other mountain adventures.................
Founding
the BOFMC
Hamish Brown has a lot to answer for as, while County Advisor for Outdoor
Education, he was largely instrumental in setting up the Braes O’ Fife
Mountaineering Club.
This was how he slouched through 1973, the year the club came into
being........
A Night
Out With Big Eck
This document was discovered in the archives of a
prominent Scottish mountaineering club. Its
origins are obscure.
Alps
2006
Rockfall, the Eiger and John
paying for a train ! Robert & John's latest adventures in the Alps
Weekend in Skye, My 1st
Braes O Fife Meet
Sonya Drummond describes her
introduction to the club
My
Zero Gully Affair
Robert McMurray's account of a trouser
filling ascent of one of the Ben's classics
In The
Footsteps Of The Pioneers. Climbing In Canada
Keith Partridge looks at what motivated those who
first went to Canada to explore the peaks of the Rockies.
Etive
Capers
- a historical document
Neil Reid remembers a debacle on the Etive Slabs
Living
On The Edge
An account of a winter
ascent by Colin McGregor and Neil Reid of Quartzvein Edge in the Cairngorms, in
March 2002. Neil says there are no pictures because they were too gripped.
"I was sure Colin was going to fall......."
Our
Island – The Braes O’ Fife and Rum
Neil
Reid gives a
personal view of the not inconsiderable contribution the ‘Braes’ have made
to rock climbing on Rum.
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