After a few hours of sleep at The Cottage, I was back on the road again! A pre-packed bag was already for me by the back door, so after hanging up my tent to dry, I returned to Manchester to where Clare had just stepped off the flight from Seattle (via Iceland). We were almost… Read more

An alpine start of 05:30am meant that we could break up the journey home with some rock climbing near Portishead. Amazingly, we managed some great climbing along with pretty much traffic free driving (only getting held up in the last half hour!). Once the group were re-united with parents, we spent some time in the… Read more

Just because we were camping in an empty field on a cliff top, didn’t mean that we couldn’t have fancy pancakes for breakfast!  Sea mist and drizzle put a stop to any climbing plans, so we checked out the Minack Theatre instead. An absolutely magical place! We didn’t watch a show, but enjoyed looking around… Read more

Our South West rock climbing expedition continued south this morning, and crossed borders into Cornwall… First things first…..  Then onto Sennen…. Sennen looked as magical as I remembered as we drove down the hill to the harbour. We then made the short walk over the cliff tops and made an intimidating abseil down to the… Read more

The threat of rain was in the air when we woke up, but down at the Dewerstone, on the edge of Dartmoor, things stayed dry until the afternoon. We had the entire crag and valley to ourselves, so spilt into small teams to climb. Bex and I led some students up ‘Mucky Gully’ – a… Read more

A bluebird Dartmoor day! What a corker! Hardly a breath of wind and plenty of folk up at Sheepstor enjoying the warm granite climbing. We had a work around a few other groups, but everyone found something to do – even if it was just enjoying the views. We made it to the shop in… Read more