The travel day. Another expedition begins! A strange day that flowed very smoothly from Wales: briefly to Norway; across to Sweden and finally up to Lapland. After many years of travelling, we had the good fortune to experience some thing I’ve always wanted to do – have an upgraded flight! For reasons still unknown, we Read more

A brief spell of winter in the mountains had me putting on my crampons for the first time this year. Between the weather fronts was a dry window of opportunity, so I raced up into the Ogwen Valley in the morning, where it was still very windy, but surprisingly bright. The cliffs below the summit Read more

Having checked out conditions on Sunday, we knew exactly where to go on Monday morning. The huge storm Ciara had now mostly passed by, but in it’s wake were waves where we’d never really seen them before. John arrived first, in his surf kayak to make use of the beautiful lines. A perfect point break Read more

All Outdoor Education activities were shelved today as we let storm Ciara pass through. Leaving home was still an adventure as the whole of the Ogwen Valley had turned into a lake over night. We had 56mm of rain in the night. Up the road at Capel Curig, they had 123mm in 24hrs!  The Menai Read more

I’ve been down near Barmouth for a few days accompanying some students on an expedition journey along the Mawddach Estuary and the Welsh Coastal Path. Setting off on Friday, the weather couldn’t have been better and it looked like we should be able to complete our two-day hike before the weekend storms arrived. Our team Read more

The promise of a dry and bright start was nowhere to be seen today. Thick misty rain was getting blown hard onto the windows of the basement flat where we’d stayed the night. It was far from ideal cycling weather. However, given that we had no other choice, we had a brew, got togged up Read more