Gwilym's Adventure Blog

Today was the second day of the Mountain Training SPA course I was directing for Wet and High Adventures . We were at the single pitch (shorter) end of Avon Gorge Sea Walls where we spent the day lead climbing, abseiling and placing lots of gear. Another coldish start that warmed up nicely by midday. The last two days has been great with 7 newly trained candidates heading off to gain additional experience before assessment.

Today on a glorious sunny day with the main road through the gorge closed, 5 AMI members descended (literally as we had to park at the top) on the limestone crags of Avon Gorge. Stu, Mark, Mark, Jay and I wanted to climb routes through as many of the grades as we could. I planned to cover the Diff to mid Extreme range but we missed a VS and HVS. Between us we managed (in grade order) Original Route -Diff The Arete - V Diff 4a Dawn Walk - S 4a Direct Route - S 4a Dexter - HS 4a Central Butress - E1 5a (2 ascents by different parties) New Horizons II - E2 5c Priceless - E2 6a Them - E3 6a Arms Race - E4 5c Unfortunately one of the others who was due to come was unable to make it due to illness so we will blame him for the missing routes. All in all a great day out and perfect end to a weekend of celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors .