Kinder Scout

It was fairly windy today on the hill with hail shower every so often. I was out with two people who wanted to improve there navigation. We looked at map to ground, contouring, timing and relocating. In all we had a good day out.

Burbage Valley Walk

It was a great day for walking around in the Peaks today, the weather was fairly warm and the showers were light. Had some great view's of the surrounding area when not in the clouds.

North Wales

 

Edging into the snow line.

Had a great day on the hills in North Wales. Decided to go up Pen yr ole Wen, via the Craig Lloer Ridge. The combination of the wind and winter showers made it more exciting.                  

Moving up the ridge of Craig Lloer.

 

Descending  from Pen yr Ole Wen.



Burbage



Got out this morning to burbage it was bitter out there today, ice on the ground in patches. Fricton was great, cold on your hands untill you warmed up.



North Wales

 Went to North Wales looking to get some winter routes in. Saturday morning went into do the Trinity Face but conditions were not ideal so ended up doing a scramble up Y Gribin and then over Lliwedd.

 In the afternoon we went to milestone and banged of a couple of routes just before dark.
Jimbo enjoying the climbing on milestone.

Winter Has Come

The Peaks had a good covering of snow last night and snow showers all day.

 Learn to lead course 

Had a busy week had a learn to lead climbing course for two days. The two clients learnt how to place protection with a variety of gear, clipping into quickdraw, setting up at the top of a climb, anchor selection, vector force's, route selection. In all we had a good few days. The rain held off but the wind was very strong.  

Intro to Climbing course

 In the two day intro course, the clients learnt the basics from belaying to setting up top rope system's. The system's were then climbed on. We had a great two days out on the grit, the weather was fairly kind to use even tho the wind was strong.