Feel like I made the most of an enforced weekend stay at The Cottage. There’s been lots of computer based work/planning going on and having just received our new climbing guidebook, a good excuse to give the fireside some appreciation. The ‘four seasons in one day’ theme continued throughout the bank holiday.  The Monday started… Read more

Well, something is still not right in my foot, so I’ve been told to sit tight for the Bank Holiday Weekend and let it mend some more. No late season winter mountaineering for me this year then. I did however, manage to get a ride out to the pier at Bangor to get a breath… Read more

Woke to find snow in the garden this morning! Unbelievable!  I was due to be taking a group of students gorge walking, but given the unseasonably low temperatures today, (and the fact that my foot still hurts), we decided to change the plan and try to seek some shelter by the Menai Straits to do… Read more

A day of route setting and judging in the climbing wall. Luckily, an activity that doesn’t require much walking: my foot is still looking too big, but the swelling has reduced a lot.  The hard part was creating routes without being able to climb them myself! Luckily, Callum was able to come and lend a… Read more

There’s snow back in the mountains! Unbelievable crazy ‘April showers’ weather, with sun one minute then heavy hail the next. My foot is still in no fit state to out in the mountains, so I took the opportunity to go and visit Plas Newydd on Anglesey; a fine establishment and home of Lord Anglesey. I… Read more

Some think that climbing mountains, is a risky game to play; But team games give the injuries, or so the stats would say. The ‘risky’ pastimes I pursue, like surfing, skiing or in canoe, Or hanging from a rocky face, seem safer than a ‘normal’ place. And here I give a case example, where a… Read more