Rock Climbing Instructor award assessment and more…
In the last week we’ve run our first of the new Rock Climbing Instructor award assessments, and what weather we had for it! We also had some returning visitors for some sea cliff climbing, and got a couple of awesome personal climbs in – the weather has treated us well!
Andy and son Igor, over from Geneva, came out for a days climbing, and despite some big swell we had a great day between Porth Clais and Porth y Fynnon! I think it was their 4th time out with me? And the guys cruised every climb I could throw at them! Tired arms at the end of the day!
Climbing a Porth Clais with a big swell running!
The sun came out on Friday, and keen to give the arms and fingers a good workout, Alun and I headed to Plumstone for some bouldering. A fairly underused venue, there really are some great problems here in the v1 – v4 range… A beautiful setting and virtually no walk in! Any visiting climber should check it out if they’re in the area!
Bouldering in Pembrokeshire
For day 1 of our first of the new Rock Climbing Instructor award assessments (RCI), we headed to a sweltering Newton Head. Personal climbing and some group set ups, with seals, sun, sea and porpoises… Who wouldn’t want to do the RCI award in Pembrokeshire?!!
The new Rock Climbing Instructor award assessment in Pembrokeshire
We visited the Haverfordwest climbing wall for part of day 2 on the RCI Assessment, the spent the rest of the day at Wolfs Rocks, looking at more of the group aspects of the syllabus. A really fun weekend with some keen and knowledgeable candidates!
Candidates on our first of the new Rock Climbing Instructor award assessments, at Wolfs Rocks – Pembrokeshire…
The final bit of sunshine was dragged out with an after work climb with Joey, we rushed out to St Davids Head immediately after the end of the RCI Assessment, to bask in the setting sun! (Ok I was a little chilly in the breeze and just in a shirt!) We managed to sneak 5 pitches in at Craig Coetan before the sun departed… A top end to a great week working and playing in Pembrokeshire!
Joey on the sharp end and pushing her grade on some adventurous Pembrokeshire sea cliff climbing