There’s an amazing village bakery in Capileira, so after a breakfast of Omlette and Coffee, we watched some fresh loaves being pulled from the wood fires oven. It smelled amazing in there! Perfect sandwich material.    After a slightly un-nerving drive upto 2000m or so and the start of the trail head, we finally set… Read more

Between all the hecticness of the last few days, I managed to get the all the paperwork, bookings and risk assessments finalised for my next expedition. The last kit checks were done as well as sorting rations and these delicious de-hydrated meals for a planned high camp in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in… Read more

Clare’s Birthday today! And what a day we’ve had – right from the word go, we’ve been having fun!   The weather took an unexpected turn for the better and we lunched outside at The Cottage with pressies, before strolling into the slate quarry for the third time this week, in search of more classic… Read more

Kit check and packing today ready for my next expedition, which leaves on Saturday. I’m going to be leading a small team on a trek in the Sierra Nevada in Spain, but there still seems to be a lot of kit to get prepped. We won’t be able to buy gas for the camp stoves,… Read more

I had a different kind of rock climbing session today, up at Castle Inn Quarry. Some of my students are heading off this summer on their own rock climbing trip, so asked me to do an informal assessment on their skills to make sure they are ready to be out on their own! They had… Read more

Banana pancakes for breakfast, followed by another stormy surf on the west coast of Anglesey. Then back to The Cottage, for an afternoon session of classic lemon and sugar pancakes with coffee as the Slates started to dry off. Headed to the ‘Australia’ level of the quarries for a climb. The rain had been so… Read more