Fresh back from the Film Festival and I was straight out the door to meet a group in Llanberis for a traverse over Wales’ highest peak – Snowdon. It was a wet morning with very low clouds, despite the forecast suggesting otherwise. Over a bacon sandwich in the cafe in Llanberis, I discussed the options with the group… Read more

Sorry about the lack of posts this week – a) it’s been a whirlwind of a time and b) my phone has stopped uploading the posts!… anyway, back to last Friday!…. As part of my work with the Rab AMI test team, I’ve been up in The Lake District at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival.… Read more

Yesterday’s wintery feel was almost completely gone today and Nick and I enjoyed a mild day teaching rock climbing near Conwy. It remained overcast for much of the day and the sun hung low in the sky. The photos were all a bit washed out, but the views we had were nice. There was barely any wind,… Read more

There have been some big, dark and blue-tinged clouds about over the weekend and in the gaps between them, we could see that the first snows of winter have fallen on the mountain tops. We had a heavy hail shower here at The Cottage and a slight frost, but this morning’s sunrise was the best natural… Read more

There was a long pause, followed eventually by ‘well it’s certainly rather breezy; a 50/50 kind of day’. That was the response from local climbing legend, George Smith in answer to our questioning about the conditions at Rhoscolyn this afternoon. We had just arrived and he and his partner were about the leave. A tiny… Read more

Emma and I were lucky enough to have the flexibility of time today to delay our start time in the mountains. It was a grim start to the day, with low cloud and heavy drizzle – not ideal conditions for the proposed mountain scrambling that we had in mind. We were both happy to postpone the… Read more