High pressure continues to hang above the U.K. giving more fantastic mountain conditions! Sadly I had to be indoors today, preping with a group, but Clare sent me this photo of the Carneddau Mountains at sunset from just outside The Cottage. What a place….  Read more

To be honest, I wasn’t really expecting much as I set off from Pen y Pass around midday. The telephone and internet has been down since the storms the other day, so had to call Fort Martin for a weather update! The forecast was suggesting a good day awaited, but the valley felt too warm. Read more

The skies have finally started to clear, so I decided to head into Cwm Lloer to have a look around and check out how much snow and ice had been put down by the recent storms. There was a good amount of snow up high, but the temperature was hovering just above freezing, so the Read more

When I got back to The Cottage yesterday evening, I emptied 55mm of rain out of the rain gauge. Three hours later, there was another 35mm in it! A spring has even started to bubble up in the grass outside! With such a deluge, that continued on into the night, I popped over to Llanberis Read more

I wrote this after last month’s mini-adventure down to Cornwall, then promptly forgot about it… Great memories… THE VOYAGE TO CORNWALL… This road trips’ heading south and west; To where the pasties taste the best. There’s aunts down there and friends galore; A good time guaranteed for sure. Diesel and coffee’s what I’ll need, with Read more

Outside activities today were cancelled due to a severe weather warning of blizzards, gales and heavy sleet, snow and rain. It was one of the grimmest days that I can remember around here! By evening the roads were beginning to flood and just walking across the car park was a struggle to stay upright. A ‘For Read more