After a long period of solid work, its been awesome to have the last week off. It’s given me the time to get out and explore on the bike, find new places to run, go climbing for myself catch up with life! Rather than go on too much about it, below are some pictures, from climbing in North Pembrokeshire, cycling over the Preseli’s and to St Brides bay and the usual Pembrokshire sunset..   Continue reading

A busy bank holiday weekend in Pembrokeshire finished off an awesome week, the weather was mostly good after the large swell from the previous weekend cleared, and I had the pleasure of some lovely company whilst working. A day at Newton Head with a family of keen novices in glorious sunshine started the week. Warm, sunny and some great climbs made for a top day. They all pushed their limits both climbing and abseiling, and with… Continue reading

Since being back from India I’ve been straight back into it with barely a moment for my feet to touch the ground. The day after arriving back in the UK I was back with return client Tony, who wanted to be shown some of the lovely south Pembrokeshire limestone classics. We went to Saddle Head, a crag near St Govans, climbing loads of the routes there. As ever he did awesomely well, especially considering his long lay off… Continue reading

For the last month I have been leading a trip for World Challenge to the Indian Himalaya. The trip has a few focus areas, including a project within a local community/school etc, a trekking phase and finally some RnR! Our trip to the Indian Himalaya was heavily focused towards the trekking – perfect for me! We flew in to Delhi after a lovely flight with Virgin, and arrived early in the morning ready for a… Continue reading

Ockbrook School Gold DofE expedition This last week I’ve been supervising a Gold DofE expedition in Snowdonia, for ten girls from Ockbrook School. I ran their practice expedition a few months ago, where we had blizzards in the Brecon Beacons, so we were all hoping for better conditions this time! I met them and their school leaders in Llanfaifechan, from where they would start a 4 day journey, totally self supported, to south of Snowdon.… Continue reading

Lead Climbing Skills Courses in Pembrokeshire This week I’ve had Karl and Mike with me, developing their Lead Climbing Skills. They are on a learn to lead climb week with me. They started the week having done a small amount of outdoor climbing, but eager to learn, and the weather couldn’t have been better for us! Every day we had clear blue skies and good tides, and with the guys keen to climb as much… Continue reading

Over the weekend I’ve been running an SPA training course. The SPA (single pitch award) is the outdoor industry standard award for taking groups climbing outdoors, and is overseen by Mountain Training. Candidates have to have a certain amount of climbing experience before completing their SPA training, this follows with a certain amount of time consolidating their personal and group work skills, filling their log-books with assisting on group sessions and personal climbing at a… Continue reading

Another week has flown by, taking the TYF schools climbing in an on form Pembrokeshire Coast National Park! The busiest week of the year so far, I was glad to just have to take the TYF schools climbing, and not worry about logistics! We started the week at Porth Clais, enjoying some warm weather and sun. The group started the day bouldering and exploring the area, learning some skills for the climbs on Grey Wall.… Continue reading

Porth Clais Sunny Climbing Sessions… The weather has continued to be cracking this week, and each day I’ve been out at Porth Clais, either for my own work guiding, with school groups for TYF, or running Technical Advice sign off’s for local climbing instructors. I feel very lucky to get to do my own fun work with great clients, and work for other companies with my mates, it never really feels like work, not like… Continue reading

Sunny Pembrokeshire! This week summer has really hit, and I’ve been lucky to spend it all climbing in super sunny Pembrokeshire! It’s been a real mix of work for different companies as well as myself, plus some Technical Advisor work, but weeks like it a real pleasure to be outside, whether its taking youth groups for their first experience of climbing outside, teaching lead climbing or tech advice work… I started the week working for… Continue reading