First full day on the trail today! This time the skies were overcast and the temperatures low. Stayed well wrapped up during our 25km ride through the forests and wilderness. Low light and low temperatures meant not many photos as I had big mitts on for most of the day. We made a fire when… Read more

A very nice introduction to Arctic life today with the team – one of whom enjoyed a very memorable 18th birthday experience!  After a brief walk into Kiruna town to visit the local market and snow sculptures, we traveled to the nearby Ice Hotel, where we went all out for the birthday celebrations. Starting with… Read more

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