I was due to be taking a group of students to the Yorkshire Dales today, but couldn’t even get the van off the driveway! Woke to find much more snow than expected! I’ve always fancied skiing the hill outside The Cottage, so on finding that no vehicles had dared to try and come down it,… Read more

I’m opening up the Spring evening lecture series at Plas y Brenin, the National Mountain Centre on Wednesday 15th March. I’m considering it the start (and finish?!) of my world book launch tour! Winter has been having what surely must be it’s last gasp? My planned lessons were all aborted this week in favour of… Read more

Even though it was a bit of an early start from The Cottage this morning, there was still time for a solid mountaineers breakfast! Well fed and with the minimalist amount of kit squeezed into my test rucsack, set drove up the valley and set out from Ogwen Cottage into what was looking like the… Read more

It was far from ideal conditions for a surf today, but the group of students that I had with me were super keen to get in the water – despite the passing of a heavy shower of hail!  Not wanting to quash their enthusiasm, we set out with a mixed fleet of kayaks and surfboards… Read more

One of my student groups have been working towards achieveing their John Muir Award over the past few months. They have had to discover, explore and conserve a wild area and today was the final day in our chosen woodland. We started off with a hike above the Conwy valley, to test our map work,… Read more

With it being calm but cold in the mountains, we journeyed over to the west coast of Anglesey in search of a little bit of sunshine to climb in. On top of the crags at Port y Garran, the easterly wind felt cold and inhospitable, but, down at sea level, sheltered by the cliffs it… Read more