The Mountain Lifestyle Blog

  • Tropical Storm

    While out to sea on our morning dip we watched with fascinating as the skies darkened into some fantastic clouds and colours. Soon enough, heavy rain drops started to fall. It was a really quite an eery scene. All was calm and the raindrops tinkled and splashed as they bounced off the waters surface.  As… Read more

  • Sea Kayaking with Turtles

    When you’re living this close to the beach, on a tropical Hawaiian Island, a morning swim is simple obligatory. Got out of bed, pulled on some board shorts and walked into this scene… After a breakfast back at base, we took the double kayak down to the water and kayaked our to a little island… Read more

  • A Hawaiian Surprise!

    I’ve possibly never been more happy about getting up at 5am. The shock of the alarm soon wore off as we piled into the back of an enormous black Uber and were transported very comfortably to Seattle Airport. Excitement levels reached an all time high when I handed over my luggage and received this!  Anna… Read more

  • Caffeine & Alcohol – Bremerton, Seattle

    Champagne and caffeine have been fuelling the last few days of travel! It feels like we’ve not slept in days and to be honest we barely have. Crossing time zones has given us extended days, which we’ve been living as though they were just 24hrs to try and avoid too much jet lag. America style… Read more

  • Way out West… An extended Valentines Day

    The usual journey up to the winter mountains of Scotland at this time of year has been somewhat shaken up! After packing away my ice axes and winter gear, we left the Welsh mountains under fresh snowfall with a completely different bag of gear in the boot. A fun night at Fort Martin broke up… Read more

  • East/Main Gully, (Gd IV), Glyder Fach

    Went for an ‘exploratory’ day up on Glyer Fach Main Cliff with Gaz today. He was keen to seek out some steeper lines and I was happy to follow. Our initial new routing plan soon changed due to lack of snow and ice, but we did come across East Gully which was well iced up… Read more

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