The section is engaged in a number of different activities:
Hiking
Our most done activity is surely hiking, be it short, half-day hikes or multi day off-trail tours into our vast wilderness areas. Sections go out on regular basis to what are called ‘meets’. The sections’ calendars are full with these hikes and you can choose what suits your interest and level of fitness.
Climbing
One of the MCSA’s main activities is climbing. South Africa really lends itself to climbing having not only an abundance of rock but the weather to go with it. On these meets climbers get together to climb routes at a specific venue. Check out a section listed on our home page closest to you to see their meets program.
Mountain Community Programme
The Department of Sport and Recreation allocates a certain amount of money to the Mountain Club of South Africa. Each of the fourteen sections applies for funds to spend in their own Mountain Community Programme. We in the Worcester section are lucky to have five different organisations that work very closely with us to spend these funds wisely on developing our youth.
Conservation at Places
As a nature organisation we are focused on conserving the fauna & flora in the areas we operate in. Our main task is to eliminate all hakea and pine trees in the Fonteintjiesberg and Brandwacht mountain areas. This is where our beloved Thomas Hut is situated, and this is where we do 70 – 80% of our hikes.
Social Events
Worcester Section of the MCSA is known to be a very social bunch of people. Every hike is a social gathering/‘kuier’ for us. We have 4 ‘official’ social events each year, of which our AGM in March and the Year End Function in December our most formal. Our classic Winter social and Spring social are more informal gatherings. We take every opportunity to organise an event and make it a “lekker kuier”, like when we had our 125-year birthday celebrations in 2018. The way everyone enjoyed this occasion was summed up by our national secretary, Jenny Paterson “Thank you so very very much for what for me was the best annual dinner that I have ever attended! You and the team did an amazing job and I just loved the venue.