Gwilym's Adventure Blog

I have just finished a very hot and sunny Lowland Leader Assessment on the Isle of Wight. We visited coast path, woodland, farmers fields and downs over the 2 days.  Always good to learn loads from the candidates especially the local knowledge that they had between them. Just on the ferry now heading up to North Wales for a Mountain Leader course. It is so good to be back out doing what I enjoy and making good progress on clearing the backlog of courses.

 After the SUP session I was straight down to Dartmoor to help out Plymouth College with some DofE groups. Sunny Saturday turning onto Showery Sunday (ok, not true, it was torrential rain).  Every cloud has a silver lining as the group finished early and Olly and I went boating on The Lower Dart.

I was out on The River Parrett this morning with 3 sisters for a birthday SUP. Mainly a dry session (well, for 2 of them) and lots of laughs had along the way. 

 Another Lowland Leader Training course but a long way from the last two. This time I was on The Isle of Wight with a group of DofE Leaders.  Even though it was not the finest IOW weather, we had a great weekend and covered loads of topics. The courses all follow the syllabus but different locations give us variety in how we deliver and this keeps it interesting for me as well. Sadly the mole in picture 3 was beyond help but he was moved from the middle of a cycle track and given a suitable send off wrapped in a leaf

This was the second of the Lowland Leader Training courses I was delivering in The Lincolnshire Wolds in partnership with Wolds Outdoors. A wetter weekend to start but dried out on day two to give use some lovely walking conditions

Today I was staying very local and working down at Greatwood Camp putting a number of their staff through the RLSS Emergency Response course for their very chilly pool (hence the wetsuits)

This weekend was the first of two Lowland Leader Training courses I am delivering in The Lincolshire Wolds. It is always great to visit new venues and work with people who have good local knowledge of their area