My diverse mountain lifestyle continued this morning – with a small group of students, I started off the day with some bird watching at the RSPB reserve at South Stack on Anglesey. While I’ve been rock climbing here, on the cliffs of Gogarth many times, I’d actually never been into the RSPB reserve. Acting on… Read more

  Just back from a whirlwind 48hour round trip to Fort Martin to celebrate 70 years of the Big Cheese – Pappa Martin! Totally brilliant time, including all three generations of the Martin Clan all sat down together for a Christmas (birthday) dinner, with fine wines, good conversation and lots of laughter. Good times indeed…… Read more

  The freezing level was easy to identify as we walked up into Cwm Idwal on Sunday to go scrambling. The streams were iced up to about  600m, but flowing below. Because of this, we opted (after several changes of plan), to do a lower level scramble on the side of Idwal Slabs. I’d not… Read more

A crisp winters morning greeted us today in Wales! Full blue skies and a bitterly cold wind made for beautiful yet hostile conditions in the mountains. I was guiding a small team, who wanted to climb as many peaks as possible within the constraints of a short time frame. The Yr Orsedd to Drum ridge… Read more

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