Admin, un-packing, sorting, cleaning, planning have all been part of today. With an Alpine trip looming, and high pressure maintaining the settled weather, we left The Cottage just before lunch for a bit of leg stretching!     Our ‘local peak’ of Carnedd y Filiast was perfect for a quick hit. It’s all gentle walking and… Read more

What a whirlwind of a few days! I’m just back from a mini trip to Fort Martin, via a whole bunch of friends and family along the way! Somehow I managed to squeeze it all into a frantic 36 hour period. I drank way too much coffee and ate way too little, but it’s been… Read more

I took a small team out canoeing this afternoon. They wanted some excercise but didn’t want to be in the gym on such a glorious day – so for a ‘work out’, we raced a lap of the lake in canoes! Up at the end of the lake, some of the team even went for… Read more

Well it’s been another fine day in the Snowdonia National Park, with perfect conditions for guiding a team of students over the famous knife edge ridge of Crib Goch and up onto the summit of Snowdon. I had several plans (as usual) about which way we would ascend the highest peak in Wales, but having… Read more

There was a taste of spring in the air today; bright and sunny but with a nippy wind keeping things feeling cool still. A nice day to be out on the lake doing a spot of canoeing. The mountains looked fabulous and it felt finally like summer might be on its way?  It’s also staying… Read more

Back up into the Carneddau Range again for my fourth ascent of Carnedd Llewellyn in the last two weeks! Poor old Llewellyn is only 21 meters lower than Snowdon, but Snowdon takes all the fame and glory! It’s ranking as the second highest mountain in Wales holds so much less of an allure to hill… Read more