Gwilym's Adventure Blog

A bit of peer mentoring today on Day 4 of a Mountain Leader Training course for Wet and High Adventures Ltd . Stu was running the day and as part of my responsibilities as a director and provider, I was out with him observing him work. Lot of things covered as we weaved our way up and down Tryfan's North Ridge in a mix of sunny spells and hail showers. Some of the hail was very large and a bit painful. Whilst the candidates and Stu will be out expedition over the next two days, it will be an admin day for me tomorrow looking at Log Books for all the courses coming up this month.

On the third day of the Mountain Leader Training course I am running for Wet and High Adventures Ltd , we headed into the Ogwen Valley to the area around Clogwyn y Tarw to look at all things to do with managing groups on steep ground. Coaching, spotting, confidence roping, body belaying and abseiling were all covered.  Unbelievably sunny and warm at times though this may not continue over the rest of the course.

On the second day of the Mountain Leader Training course I am directing for Wet and High Adventures Ltd we headed to the Cwm Glas area in Llanberis Pass to continue with our navigation theme but also looking at a lot of the flora and fauna that Snowdonia has to offer.  It is always quiet in this area but as the cloud lifted as we gained height, we saw a few people on Crib Goch and then as we popped up onto Gyrn Las, we saw a fair few people on the Llanberis path.

Out on the first day of a Mountain Leader Training course for Wet and High Adventures Ltd in the Carneddau today. After a few hours of chat and discussion about the award and weather forecasts, we went out for a navigation exercise behind Bethesda looking at lots of different techniques.

A great day out in Kirkstone Pass today working for Adventure Expertise conducting competency assessments on some expedition leaders who are off to Iceland this summer. Navigation, steep ground work and a discussion on river crossings were the theme of the day. Listening to their plans for the trip, I am a little disappointed that I won't actually be going there with them

I am in The Lakes and the weather is warm and sunny. Today I started at Patterdale and climbed St Sunday Crag by a very warm and dry Pinnacle Ridge before heading on round and up to a cold and blowy Fairfield and Hart Crag. Then is was a relatively painless descent down Hartsop above How back to the car which got warmer and warmer with every step. Definitely an 8 picture day today. Took loads more though, I get very few personal days in The Lake District so it was nice to be out and about without the pressure of trying to find a DofE group

Working for Wet and High Adventures Ltd in the sun down in Torbay with Marcus for a 1:1 SUP experience. We had a paddle round Thatcher Rock and the Shag Rock before heading round under London Bridge to Torquay Harbour. On the way back we looked at pivot turns which were a little tricky in the irregular swell and the increasing wind before visiting the café at the end of Meadfoot Beach.