Gwilym's Adventure Blog

Today on the second day of a Mountain Training  Single Pitch Award assessment I am directing for Wet and High Adventures Ltd we went to Birchen Edge (along with a vast number of other people) in much drier weather. The aim of today was personal climbing and abseiling with some problem solving thrown in along the way. I am please to say that both Mark and Beth passed and headed off home very happy

Today I was directing the first day of a Mountain Training Single Pitch Award assessment for Wet and High Adventures Ltd in The Peak District. We headed to Millstone and Lawrencefield in wet and windy weather to look at Top Roping, Bottom Roping and Abseiling. In the evening we took shelter from the rain at Awesome Walls in Sheffield for the inside part of the assessment. Thanks to Jake for helping out today.

Out on a very wet Dartmoor running a Single Pitch Award re-assessment for Wet and High Adventures . A good performance from the candidates who has now passed and will hopefully be working with the award in much nicer weather than we experienced today.

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.

Second day of the Single Pitch Award assessment I am directing for Wet and High Adventures . We were at Hound Tor on Dartmoor today. Great to bump into lots of friends who were also out form some climbing fun. A sunny start but got chilly later. Both candidates got lots of climbing done as well as setting up for groups and dealing with some problems. Both passed so well done guys

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.

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 I have been directing an SPA Training course for Wet and High Adventures in the Bristol Area. The day was spent at Goblin Combe Car Park Crag and the evening at Redpoint Bristol. A cold start that soon warmed up and it was very pleasant in the sun.

After a long and tiring ride home from Switzerland on Monday into the early hours of Tuesday, today I was out at Goblin Combe working the second day of an SPA Assessment. The candidates had been on Dartmoor with Andy Holborn yesterday I have not been to this crag at this time of year before and although the crag was fine, top access was a little overgrown and therefore very shady. We did get into the pockets of sun occasionally. As per usual we got regular fly pasts from Bristol Airport making communication difficult but all three candidates coped well and passed.

Today I have been assessing candidates for the Mountain Training  Single Pitch Award . Wet Wet Wet was the weather today, however we still managed to spend some time at Sheep's Tor before we gave in and ran to the climbing wall. Hope for better conditions tomorrow.

At Sheep's Tor today on the west of Dartmoor. Yesterday was spent going up (climbing) and today was mainly spent going down (abseiling). We looked at releasable and personal abseil skills, gear placement and had a small amount of top roping once the crag had dried out.

Today I was out running the first day of an SPA Training courses at The Dewerstone. Once darkness arrived we relocated to the Life Centre Climbing wall for the evening session.

Out on the limestone at Chudleigh today running the second day of an SPA training course. Great weather and dry rock made for a good day looking at abseiling skills, gear placement and leading routes.