Something a bit different! After spending the day organising equipment for my next expedition, I got the chance to have a go at rifle shooting! Last time I had a go with one of these things was trying to shoot a polar bear shaped box in Svalbard! The bullets and recoil on these were much… Read more

As part of my mountaineering ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD), I had an eye-opening evening at Plas y Brenin, the National Mountain Centre with the Head of Development at Edelrid Ropes; taking a scientific and practical look at the use of climbing ropes. The meeting was scheduled from 17:00 to 19:30, but it was nearer 21:00 by the time… Read more

I finished the weekend climbing wall course that I’ve been running at the Beacon Climbing Centre. It’s been a while since I had such an able and psyched group. We did loads of routes, some speed climbing (where I had to work hard to keep from getting burnt off y the students!) and finished with… Read more

It wasn’t all about rock climbing today at the indoor wall. For something a bit different, we had a fun session learning how to climb a rope in order to escape from a crevasse or up a steep section of cliff. We used a mix of traditional ‘prussik’ knots as well as some mechanical gizmos too. Read more

We’ve been wanting to cycle the cycle trail across the centre of Anglesey for a while now and today (despite being pretty cold), seemed like a good day to go for it. After a morning of sorting a few jobs, we arrived at Malltreath and set off, into a bracing wind, along the canal. The… Read more

Teamed up with a couple of friends to do our first winter climb of the season today! It’s been cold up high for a few days, so we went up to the highest cwm in Ogwen to see if there was enough snow and ice for climbing. It felt relatively optimistic as we drove through the… Read more