Mountain Lifestyle

The Mountain Lifestyle Blog

  • Rowan Route, Diff** – Milestone Buttress

    Rowan Route, Diff** – Milestone Buttress

    I can’t remember such a prolonged period of dry weather here in North Wales. Wanting to make the most of it, we spent another evening out climbing until sunset, but this time with a much shorter walk to get to the cliffs. Twenty minutes after leaving the house, we were setting up the initial cliffs… Read more

  • Rock Climbing in Cwm Lloer

    Rock Climbing in Cwm Lloer

    Heat levels rose up another notch today, with temperatures reaching 26 degrees in the shade just after 10am! We’d set aside today for a trip up into the mountains to climb on some of the areas of more remote and lesser travelled crags, while the ground is so dry. We had a few plans in… Read more

  • Out & About in North Wales – Local Views

    Out & About in North Wales – Local Views

    The continued summer conditions have made working in the great outdoors an absolute joy again this week! A bit of gorge walking, hiking and some expedition fun made for an action packed few days. After our late night climb there was a bit of kit sorting back at The Cottage before anything else could be… Read more

  • Manx Wall, HS (4b)*** Clogwyn Du

    Manx Wall, HS (4b)*** Clogwyn Du

    After a great day orienteering around Llanberis with some students, there wasn’t really time (and barely any energy) for a big evening adventure. Or so I thought!…. I was pretty tired by the time I arrived home at 18:00, after chasing markers, tadpoles and students around the lake all day in the sun. But the… Read more

  • An evening with The Kooks

    I seem to be packing in a good amount of fun stuff into the long summer evenings at the moment and tonight was no exception. But rather than heading to the mountains after a day in ‘the office’, Clare picked me up and we zipped over to Chester for the night for some live music!… Read more

  • In the last of the light – Solo on Milestone Buttress

    A few days of admin and computer based work at The Cottage could have been seen as frustrating given the weather, but since conditions have been so dry and settled since returning from Norway, it actually felt good to spend a bit of time at The Cottage, recharging ready for the next wave of expeditions.… Read more

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