What is it, and why Polldubh?

It's a climbing club for the Fort William and Lochaber area, founded on 15 April 2009 to promote all aspects of climbing in and around the area.

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Club Logo

Club logo based on drawing by Klaus Schwartz (as featured on cover of original 1970 guide to the Polldubh Crags) of Moira Horsburgh on Pinnacle Ridge and used by permission.

While our members climb in many different locations and we expect to do the same as a Club, we've taken our name from our much-loved local crags of Glen Nevis, which have proved to be amongst Scotland's finest and most popular cragging venues over many years since their first known exploration in the 1940s.

What's happening?

We have regular club nights on Tuesdays (see Calendar for dates), meeting at the Nevis Bank Woollen Mill car park for summer cragging (or maybe The Ice Factor for those wetter evenings as well as winter 'rock' or ice) and a sociable drink afterwards, with occasional scheduled weekend meets and quite a few more (as you'd expect from a small, friendly club!) of an impromptu nature.

Our website is still (three years down the line) very much under development and needing some nice photos of local climbing, but has been given the Polldubh 'look' (no prizes for identifying the classic climb of the page background!) with the Forum, Links and Contact sections having been here from the start and 'Archive' introduced in July 2011, but the development of our new crag topos sadly interrupted and awaiting further expert input.

To join or request further information, please see the Contact page. Please note also that, while one board of the Forum is publicly readable and you can register (after passing our anti-spamming controls by answering some simple questions) to post there without becoming a Club Member, there are further boards and enhanced features (eg personal messaging etc.) available to Club Members only and, with the Forum very much the 'hub' of a site that costs us money to run, regular users are strongly encouraged to join!

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