Climbing again today, but not in the mountains. Instead, I’ve been on a trip to the Cathedrals of Liverpool with some students. Amazing places, and with cool veiw if you’re up for climbing a few stairs!     Read more

Probably should have gone with my gut instincts this morning. I was running a training day for a small team of lads that I am taking away on expedition in May. The low ‘blanket’ of cloud remains across Snowdonia, but the forecast suggested that there was the slight chance of an inversion on the highest Read more

  There’s been a blanket of low lying drizzly cloud covering the entire of Snowdonia for the past couple of days. So I can’t say I was hugely excited when Clare suggested taking a picnic to the beach. Thinking it would be nice to see the ocean and that a walk would do us good, Read more

  Well if yesterday’s weather was bad, today was even worse. Temperatures have risen, the snow is melting and the mountains have been hidden under a blanket of drizzly low cloud. The Welsh winter has vanished overnight! Unsurprisingly, my team aborted from the planned mountain walk.  Instead of heading outside, we spent the afternoon re-setting Read more

I had an unusual, yet uplifting experience after meeting my group and going through the weather forecast this morning. Blizzard conditions were the main theme of the day and  (expecting a revolt), suggested that we might just stay low level as it might be a bit of a battle up high. ‘Well, we’re pretty keen Read more

  Arrived back in Wales to find that winter has been trying to make a comeback! After a beautiful ‘welcome back’ of a sun rise, it’s been becoming progressively colder and there is now a dusting of fresh snow up on the mountain tops too. I’ve been out at the forest school with some students, Read more