Well the fantastic weather has continued here in Pembrokeshire, and we’ve been making the most of it.. The school residential season has started, with climbing and abseiling out at St Davids, I’ve been new routing, deep water soloing, trad climbing, bouldering and some general exploring!
Ben and I found some solid rock and lovely small new routes overlooking Ramsay Sound nothing significant but a sublime setting…
Not a bad spot for some new routing in Pembrokeshire…
I had a weekend trad climbing and deep water soloing after that, but was having too much fun to take any photos, then it was in to a busy week working with school groups for TYF! Some stellar days out at St Davids Head – never disappoints!
St Davids Head Climbing with school groups for TYF
I was out then with Martin and Pete, who both run different outdoor activity centres in Pembrokeshire, and are Rock Climbing Instructors. In order to work on some of our friendly accessible sea cliffs such as Porth Clais, they need a little ups skilling – we visited some of the crags they might use and looked at the different skills they will be tested on in a couple of weeks!
Sea cliff skills training for Rock Climbing Instructors
With the good weather still going I got out bouldering and trad climbing, before running a day of youth climbing sessions for the BMC Pembrokeshire Climbing Festival. We had a super bunch in the morning who needed barely any input from me and climbed heaps of routes at Newton Head. In the afternoon Ellis was with me, he’s in the Welsh youth climbing squad, and it was awesome to get him leading his first trad routes! Not a bad week in Pembs!
Weslsh youth climbing squad member Ellis, leading his first ever trad route!