Portaledge Cliff Camping in Pembrokeshire With us starting running Portaledge Cliff Camping here in Pembrokeshire this year, we’re spending time checking out different amazing locations for the nights out. We’ve climbed extensively at the venues we’ll use, but as soon as you’re there at night, in darkness, the situation always seems so different. It give is a new perspective, and being immersed in the environment makes you take in stuff you might not otherwise see.… Continue reading

Snowdonia & Pembrokeshire Since having got back from Utah, we’ve been busy in both Snowdonia and Pembrokeshire. Shifts at the Haverfordwest climbing wall have been interspersed with lots of admin! I spent a day working for TYF on their BTEC course, and discussing their plans for the year ahead in my role of Technical Advisor for them for their climbing and hillwalking activities… We had an awesome weekend in Snowdonia, making the most of the… Continue reading

Skiing in Utah Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been ice-climbing and skiing in Utah. The aim was to climb more, but with such good snow and easy backcountry access I’ve done more skiing than climbimg. With a new lightweight ski touring set up I was super keen to do as much backcountry skiing as possible. I had a few days in the resorts when the powder days were good, at Solitude and Snowbird.… Continue reading

2016 Round Up 2016 has been a busy and hectic year here! Most of my time in the UK has been at home in Pembrokeshire, but UK work has also taken me to the Brecon Beacons, Snowdonia, Dartmoor and Scotland. Overseas work and personal trips have seen me visit Finland, France, Spain, Mallorca and India. This has all been a mixture of climbing, trekking, skiing, running, road and mountain biking, surfing and coasteering… 2016 has been a fun year, full… Continue reading

Climbing in Mallorca We’ve been away climbing in Mallorca over the last week. The trip was be a leisurely one, hoping to climb, bike and run – and eat lots! We’d seen there was great road biking to go along side the climbing in Mallorca, so off for some winter sun it was! Trouble was, it rained for the first couple of days once we arrived in Palma! We headed out for some city exploring… Continue reading

Autumn in Pembrokeshire Wow, what a start to Autumn in Pembrokeshire and the clocks going back! The weather has been incredible, with some climbing in shorts and t-shirts, surfing for hours in the warm water and long sweaty cycles over the Preseli hills – oh and a bit of work! We’re off on a sport climbing and road biking trip to Mallorca in a couple of weeks so it’s all about the training at the… Continue reading