Maxed out on the available daylight hours today with another evening ascent of Idwal Slabs. I was very keen to do the East Wall Girdle as the conditions are so dry at the moment, but after a day of bushcraft skills in the forest, then home for a bite to eat, time was not on Read more

More evening climbing in the Ogwen Valley and I think our seventh day of consecutive rock climbing around Snowdonia. This time we opted for the brilliant little buttress below Cwm Bochlwyd. We’ve done all the routes here, but so long ago, they all felt new again! Bathed in the warmth of the evening sun, we Read more

A day of two halves. The first was spent leading a group of students in a remote area of southern Snowdonia, which I’d not been to in a few years. We didn’t see a soul all day, but got some excellent views including this one, where Snowdon can be seen in the centre of the Read more

Rock Climbing conditions in North Wales at the moment are almost as good as they get. There’s still a chilly breeze about, but having not had a drop of rain in over two week, the rock is dry and the friction great. With the evenings getting longer, it means that there is time for some Read more

The cold breeze changed our plans from climbing on the exposed cliffs of Anglesey, to the sheltered sun trap of Tremadog, near Portmadog.  It turned out to be an excellent choice and I climbed in a t-shirt all day. It was relatively overcast, but fifteen degrees and still was much better that the coasts eight Read more

I’ve known about the climbing at Craig Dinas, literally for years, but until now have never actually been there to climb. It’s not in any of the ‘newer’ guidebooks and there are no printed topos of the climbs, so I guess it always gets overlooked (written descriptions are in the Climbers Club guide to Merionydd). Read more