In May next year, I’m going to be leading an overseas mountaineering expedition for a group of students. The exact destination is still undecided, but today was the first of a series of training days to get the team prepared. The weather forecast was suitably dreadful; wet and windy – but after weeks of cold… Read more

There’s nothing like getting into a bit of damp canoeing kit on a frosty morning. It felt like I’d barely taken off my buoyancy aid from last night’s nocturnal adventures before I was I was back at the lake in Llanberis today. No freaky lights in the water this time, but the views above were pretty… Read more

So after spending the day hiking in the mountains, I spent the evening canoeing on the Menai Straits. After the gales this morning, I was concerned that it would be too windy for my group to safely navigate the straits in the dark, but as it turned out, conditions were perfect and there was not… Read more

There was a real arctic feel in the mountains today. After over a week of having not a breath of wind in the hills, today we were greeted with a bitterly cold Easterly gale as we set off above The Cottage, up Carnedd y Filiast. The glorious blue skies were deceptive. The wind not only… Read more

A brilliant day with my regular student climbing group today. For whatever reason, the psych was at an all-time high for a real ‘workout’, so we went down to the Beacon Climbing Centre, where amazingly, we pretty much had the place to ourselves. After a warm up which turned into more of a circuit training… Read more

There is still a good covering of snow up on the tops and given the recent spectacularly colourful sunrises, I decided to make an alpine (early) start to the day and get up there to try and capture the sunrise in a photo.   I left the car at 06:25am and was high up on… Read more