These are where we meet every week, discuss how trips went the week before, do basic subcommittee stuff, and most important for you , figure out who wants to go on a trip the following weekend.
Someone always wants to go somewhere.
Don't be shy, speak up, find someone who's going somewhere that you can tag along with. If you want to do some vertical stuff, you'll need to find a vertical instructor or trip leader since they are the only ones who can check out ropes. It's just that easy. Now it is always possible that one weekend there may not be any trips going out at your skill level, but that's pretty rare, we just couldn't keep up that pace all the time. So if you can't go one weekend, just speak up louder at the next meeting, and you'll get to go something.