Post winter hasn’t included much of a break this year, which is great but it was straight back at it with courses when I got back from Scotland! Tying my journey back south with an update level 5 First Aid course based on far from help medical emergency situations was great, and as always super interesting with Dr John Dallimore. So much better and more worthwhile than the standard outdoor first aid courses, many of… Continue reading
It’s taken me an age to write a report for the winter just gone and what we got up to. To say it was a funny old one would be an understatement! I had booked my MIC assessment for the end of the winter, and had lined everything up around that… For anyone that was up there, the fact that winter was often actually summer can’t have gone unnoticed, and conditions were far from ideal… Continue reading
The perfect walking poles? I break stuff easy, and am pretty fussy when it come to kit, using it day in day out for work and personal stuff. For me, a walking pole needs to be strong yet light, collapsible and small yet easily adjustable, decent baskets and a grip that extends down the shaft. Not too much to ask surely?! Always having had to compromise on some of these features, I’ve had poles from… Continue reading
Autumn ends… The latter half of Autumn has been busy! With courses running in both North Wales and Pembrokeshire – personal guiding, NGB training and assessments in climbing and mountain leadership, a lead climbing course and a big wall climbing skills course, it’s ben super fun! Here’s a whistle stop tour of what we’ve been up to… After arriving in Snowdonia to work on some ML courses, we had a day spare so managed to… Continue reading
Things usually slow down a bit for us this time of year, but it has been a pretty busy Autumn really! We started off with a couple of weeks work for Wet and High Adventures, working with MOD engineering apprentices from Bridgwater College. This time our venue was Exmoor, an area I’d never been to before, so it was great to explore a new place and work with some lovely groups… We walked, mountain biked… Continue reading
End of the Summer in Pembrokeshire… Since getting back from India my feet have barely touched the ground. Straight back to work in and what seems like the end of summer in Pembrokeshire! After a great few days surfing, bouldering and adjusting back to life in Wales, I had a couple of days working for Coastal Adventures who had a group of Venture Scouts doing different activities with them. We had a day climbing at… Continue reading
Climbing Stok Kangri This summer I led a trip for World Challenge to Ladakh, far northern India, where we planned to climb Stok Kangri, the highest peak in the range there at a whopping 20,187ft… My team were a group of 16-18 year olds from a boys school in Rugby, none of whom had done anything like this before! Below is a quick write up of what we got up to, hopefully it might be… Continue reading
Another few decent weeks of weather since the last blog, and a pretty busy time in the run up to heading off to India working for a month.. To start off with I was running a Rock Climbing Instructor Assessment, with a one day refresher for a couple of the candidates beforehand. We had lovely weather and the guys and girls all did splendidly! Always a pleasure to run Mountaim Training assesment courses for lovely… Continue reading
Another amazing couple of weeks here in Pembrokeshire, surely this good run of weather is coming to a close?! Here’s a run through of what I’ve be up to since the last blog! With a flat sea, and acceptably warm enough to be in with just shorts on (still not warm though!) I decided to go for the Eldorado Traverse. This route has been on my radar for a while, and I finally kayaked along… Continue reading
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… I had a weekend trad climbing and deep water… Continue reading
