History
The Mountain Activities Club, known to its friends as Mac, was created in late 1991 by individual climbers from the Wantage/Didcot area of South Oxfordshire who frequented the indoor climbing wall in Didcot. They felt that by forming a club it would give them and other local walkers and climbers, a way of coming together to further their activities.
Right from the beginning the club maintained an ethos that anything goes. Our expertise lies mainly in walking and climbing but if you want to do something else we will give it a try, from caving and canoeing through to mountain biking, orienteering, skiing etc. etc.
The club has a constitution and a set of basic rules which enables it to be affiliated to the British Mountaineering Council and the benefits such membership brings. We have a committee of President, Secretary and Treasurer but the members all share responsibility for organising trips.
As a club we have travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles.Individually our members have visited many different parts of the world.
Over the past 10 years we have been away, on average, at least once a month travelling to places such as Dartmoor, The Lakes, Peak District or Snowdonia. Each Spring we organise a longer trip lasting a week or more to places further afield such as the Isle of Skye, Glencoe, the Isle of Arran, Ullapool and Ireland.
Activities have, in the main, been walking, scrambling and climbing but we do not rule out anything (within reason.)
We have held a pub social evening every other Wednesday without fail since inception, apart from the odd Christmas when no-one would turn up (because they would be or should be in the mountains of course.) These evenings tend to be passed socialising, with scant evidence of any structure other than planning the basics of our week-end trips. Our only formal meeting is the AGM which is carefully timed to last as short a period of time as possible.
Now we are ten years old and are looking forward to ten more of the same. Come and join us, why don’t you?
