A pretty dark and stormy start to the day at The Cottage. Lots of wild goats roaming the slate heaps and knocking boulders down on to the track, with livened up our morning stroll!  The mountains were full of drizzle and cloud, so we turned our attention to the coast for some mellow sport climbing Read more

A superb day of climbing work today, making an ascent of the classic climb “Flying Buttress” on Dinas Cromlech. A three star route that is not only one of the most famous in Wales, but the whole of the UK at the grade. It’s one of Ken Wilson’s ‘Classic Rock’ Climbs of the UK and Read more

A nice few days spent on the edge of the mountains, where the weather stayed (mostly) dry. Thursday was spent on a hike along the North Wales Coast path. I was with some students who were doing it in preparation for an un accompanied expedition after Easter. While I was waiting for the group at Read more

Tonight was the opening night of my ‘one date world book tour’ – Speaking live at the Plas y Brenin, The National Mountain Centre. I was invited to give a talk about the Van Bivi Logbook to start the Spring series of weekly evening lectures. Thankfully, everyone in the audience laughed in all the right places, Read more

While the mountains were still thawing out, there was the hint of a gap in the clouds over at the beach. Strong winds were on the way later in the day, so we got up, into the van and headed straight over.   It was still only about 6 degrees and the wind was already making Read more

The rise in temperatures and heavy rain combination have melted almost all of the snow and filled the rivers!  Although it was clearly a day to be out on kayaks, we had a lot of trip planning and general admin to sort out, so were happy for it to be the kind of day where Read more