Gwilym's Adventure Blog

After the group had an inside day with Mark yesterday, I was back with them at Chudleigh for the final day of a Rock Climbing Instructor Training course. The them was going down with both personal and group abseils looked at before revisiting some skills from day 1 to check their memories.  

Good day today, coffee, cake, lunch, more coffee and then a nice afternoon at Chudleigh with good mate Olly for some chilled cragging in the sun.  6 pitches, 4 different routes all on warm and somewhat polished limestone.

A great couple of days with Long Term client Jack completing a Rock Skills Intermediate course at Hound Tor and Chudleigh Lots covered over the 2 days including 4 routes at each venue as well as learning to set up anchors, belaying and general rock climbing stuff. Thanks to Jamie for coming out on day two to help so that I could fall off a few climbs so that Jack could learn to hold a fall and lower.

Day 1 of a Rock Climbing Instructor Assessment based at Dart Rock for the morning and Chudleigh for the afternoon. 3 candidates on the course and we spent the day looking at Personal Climbing and Group Management both indoors and out. Working for Wet and High Adventures Ltd who are providers of a large number of Mountain Training courses.

On Day 3 of the Rock Climbing Instructor Training course we were at a (mainly) sunny Chudleigh looking at personal climbing, problem prevention and abseiling.  A few spots of rain just to remind us how slippery Limestone can be. Thanks to Jamie for tagging along again to develop his knowledge for future opportunities to work on these courses. Working for Wet and High Adventures Ltd a provider of the majority of Mountain Training courses

Day 3 of the Rock Climbing Instructor Training course took us to a very warm and sunny Chudleigh South where the day was spent baking in sunshine whilst doing lots of climbing and setting up Top and Bottom Ropes, as well as abseils and discussing potential problems that may occur. 4 keen candidates, not a spot of rain and having Jamie along to observe made the day very nice and easy to work on. There was another large group at the crag and we all managed to work around each other with no problems. This is was working as a climbing instructor is all about. Working for Wet and High Adventures Ltd , a provider of the majority of Mountain Training awards.

Today for the second and final day of the Mountain Training Intermediate Rock Skills course for Wet and High Adventures Ltd we were at Chudleigh South looking at how to set up Top Ropes and of course, got lots of climbing done as well. 5 different routes between the showers and a couple of abseils. This is the first Rock Skills course we have run and I really like the syllabus. Although each course will be different depending on the candidates initial skill set we certainly got a lot done over the 2 days.

Today I was directing an Single Pitch Award  assessment for Wet and High Adventures at Chudleigh in Devon. Wall to wall sunshine was the order of the day and 2 candidates demonstrating their skills at lead climbing, top and bottom roping, abseiling and dealing with problems.

At Chudleigh (South) in the sun today directing a Single Pitch Award assessment for Wet and High Adventures . A day of lead climbing and some bottom roping on somewhat polished limestone. The day just got warmer and warmer so was down to t-shirts by the end. A session at Dart Rock  climbing wall finished of the day nicely.