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

  After yesterday’s excitement, we decided to take it easy today and ski on the local Pistes of Les Houches again, which are at the end of the Chamonix Valley. The main advantage of this was that we could have a lie-in, then nip out of bed, get fresh croissants from the bakery outside, enjoy… Read more

  Got a text last night from our friend Stu asking if we fancied going on an ‘exploratory’ ski tour today. While guiding some clients up a peak yesterday, he’d noticed some good looking snow slopes on the other side of the valley. The only thing was, neither of us had a map of the… Read more