Nice to be back at The Cottage and to be enjoying the views. Sadly, the weather wasn’t to last long enough for todays challenge of climbing Tryfan, Cader and Snowdon with some of my students. A 3am start was required to get ourselves up Tryfan in the early morning light before the worst of the… Read more

After such a scorching expedition, the weather had to break at some point. Thankfully all the tents and students were safely back when it did. We had about 40mm of rain in a day!  Amazingly, out of the mountains and over on the island, the fine weather still remained, so we took a punt on… Read more

I’ve been involved with a fabulous for days of expedition life as I helped some students to complete a Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition. The weather has been unreal. Far too hot for carrying a big backpack around the mountains really, but much better than rain. It all started back in Llandudno on Sunday… Read more

Good ‘Stonecrop’ scenes around The Cottage at the moment…  And a whole lot of expedition planning and preparations going on as time seems to be racing on towards departure time! Also had a superb Saturday partying with some of the best of friends to celebrate Sam’s 40th birthday. It was an all-star cast with visitors… Read more

Spent a very nice evening bouldering with members of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors as part of a CPD workshop. All rather informative and some good banter too.  Read more

With only a matter of weeks to go until we depart on our next cycle touring expedition, we thought that we ought get back into the saddle and check we could still ride! The bikes were both back from a fresh service and never felt so smooth. No clunking of gears of squeaky brakes! From… Read more