About Club Cualann
Founded in 1980, Club Cualann is an established mountaineering club affiliated to Mountaineering Ireland (MI). It meets for pre-arranged hikes in the Dublin-Wicklow Mountains every Sunday and organises trips away within Ireland or abroad for Bank Holiday weekends and other holiday periods. Trips to Scotland for St. Patrick's Weekend or Easter are popular. Expeditions to the Alps and other major mountain ranges are also organised from time to time. The club welcomes new members and prospective members are encouraged to come and try out a walk with the club.The Club has about 60 members and atendance on a Sunday walk is typically10 to 16. A typical Sunday walk is of 4 to 5 hours duration, covering 14km to 20km across untracked mountain terrain and involving about 900m of ascent. Each month we organise a "Slow & Easy" Welcome Walk which is shorter and has less ascent than a regular walk, and therefore more suitable for beginners.
The club welcomes new members and prospective members are encouraged to come and try out a walk with the club. Members should be over 18 years and have a reasonable standard of fitness. It is not necessary for new members to have any prior knowledge of navigation or mountain skills as experienced members are always onhand. It is Club policy, however, that all members should learn to look after themselves on the hills and new members are encouraged to learn these skills from experienced members .
There is an active rock-climbing group within the Club which meets on Wednesday evenings at Dalkey Quarry during the summer and at the Climbing Wall at UCD Bellfield during the winter.