You can see Moel Winion (580m) from The Cottage, so it was nice to be working so close to home today. Heading up from Bryn Hall made for a great circuit, with three nice little peaks to bag along the way. It was windy all day, which made things feel quite cold (cold enough to… Read more

First evening indoor bouldering session in ages! Possibly the first since last winter!? Had a hour free to race in and get a workout. Really enjoyed it. Always good route setting at Indy Wall. All this after a windy day in a canoe… Read more

The storm has passed and The Cottage survived unscathed. With blue skies on the Island and the chance of a wave, we set out with surf boards feeling optimistic. It was quite a wild sea, but the wind was gradually dropping. We found a sheltered(ish) bay and had a great time. It was hard to… Read more

Freakishly warm temperatures hit me as I walked out of The Cottage this morning. By 9am it was overcast with strange coloured clouds an 20°C! As I was waiting down by the river for my expedition students to arrive from their campsite, the sun suddenly appeared through the clouds, in a bright red way, a… Read more

A bit of poetry nonsense from a day in the life of a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition trainer. I’m sure a few folk can relate to some of the scenarios… Checkpoint Charlie – He sits…. He Waits…. The Checkpoint – Expedition Hunting Are they lost? Got blistered feet? They’re not here; where we said we’d… Read more

After a very windy night, I was glad to wake up to still calm conditions. I had to get up in the night to put in some extra tent pegs, for fear of damage to the tent. And for a while, I kept getting woken up by gusts of wind that would flatten the flysheet… Read more