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Hourglass Gully (Winter Grade I).
Bit different to our recent Greek sunrises this morning! I had to get the snow socks onto the car tyres to escape the snow covered Coed y Parc in the pre-sun rise gloom. The Ogwen Valley was already pretty full with abandoned cars on the road side, by by avoiding the iced up car parks,… Read more
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2025 in Photos – A Highlights Review
According to the ‘Mountain Lifestyle’ website stats, 2025 has been quite the year, as documented in 191 Blog Posts. While our home base remains in North Wales, we’ve also travelled through some new parts of England and Wales this year, as well as venturing overseas. I spent almost all of April in the Arctic –… Read more
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The Swim/Climb Combo
Our final day of ‘activity’ here on the Greek Island of Evia. As has been a theme of the trip, it started with the short walk from bed to the roof top terrace for a morning brew and some sunrise appreciation. The wind had picked up today making it feel a bit cooler than usual,… Read more
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Return of the Sunshine!
Hoorah! The sunshine is back and today felt a little bit like what a Greek Island climbing trip should be like. The sky has been so blue that it’s been almost impossible to believe that it was pouring with rain all day and into the night yesterday. We went up to one of the ‘close… Read more
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Churches and Castles
We’ve had a couple of damp days since the Christmas Day fun. Actually, we’ve had one damp day and one day of solid torrential rain! Climbing and swimming were both off the menu, but between the showers, we took a Boxing Day walk up our local volcano! Which happens to have a church built on… Read more
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Christmas in Greece
Our host arrived at the front door on Christmas Eve with yet another tray of ‘Christmas Cakes’! This time she also had a Santa hat on and a little bag of wrapped presents for us each! We’d spent the overcast day exploring a section of the coast and managed a short cliff top walk near… Read more
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