About Us
Glasgow HF Outdoor Club
Walking with Glasgow HF Outdoor Club will introduce you to Scotland’s landscape while visiting and discovering new places and areas you would otherwise have never known about as making new friends along the way.
Our Objective
‘To provide for the healthy enjoyment of leisure, to encourage the love of the open air, and to promote social and international friendship‘.
Glasgow HF Outdoor Club celebrated it's centenary in 2017 havng been founded in 1917. It has a strong membership of approximately 200 and has a programme of walks every Saturday, Sunday, some midweek walks, weekends away and social events too.
How we arrived at our Centenary is an interesting mix of social , economic ,sporting and popular culture. From the conflict of the First World War to the freedom of weekend leisure time, growth in ownership of the motor car, advances in the technology of wet weather clothing, the pursuit of ‘Munro bagging’, the world wide web and many more interwoven strands make the Club one of Glasgows’ oldest active walking clubs today.
Mountaineering Scotland
Membership
Our club and all our members are affiliated to Mountaineering Scotland, the cost of which is included in our membership fee. There is a wealth of information on all aspects of hill walking and mountaineering to be found on their website www.mcofs.org.uk
Mountaineering Scotland is Scotland’s national representative body for hill walkers, climbers and ski-mountaineers which works hard to look after their interests. Our affiliation offers many benefits, including liability insurance and access to a variety of courses run by Mountaineering Scotland.: https://www.mountaineering.scot/members/members-benefits
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As a club we take out members needs seriously. We have a Committee that meets every quarter to discuss emerging issues and hold a yearly AGM in February that all members are free to attend.
We have walk leaders from all different backgrounds that volunteer to lead our walks. The club provides subsidised training to all of them so that we can be confident they have the skills necessary.
We are immensely proud of what our members have achieved with 73 to date having completed at least one full munro circuit with many more making their own way towards that accolade.
