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Just returned from a week in the Alps, courtesy of Icicle Mountaineering in Chamonix. Had a great week of walking, climbing, via ferrata, glacier travel and which culminated in us summitting Gran Paradiso (4,061m) in Italy. I’ll write up more details shortly but I’ve posted a selection of photos taken Read More …
The forecast was correct! The weather actually seemed relatively fine as we arrived at Capel Curig late on a Friday evening for a boys weekend. The most eventful bit of the journey was realising Phillip had mistakenly (I hope) bought two crates of zero-alcohol Becks beer for the weekend, Read More …
A hastily packed few bags chucked in the boot of the car saw me leave London at 5pm on a Friday evening. I feared the worst – either a terrible journey or I’ve forgotten something crucial like my sleeping bag. Surprisingly the motorways were clear and I arrived at Read More …
With my new Laser Comp having just arrived I just had to fit in a quick trip, so I headed up to Wales on Friday afternoon. I hadn’t planned and therefore packed in a hurry, which I would regret later!. I had thought about heading into the back of Carneddau Read More …
After a stressful week at work I took Friday off with the promise of fine weather for the weekend making a pleasant change to the usual forecast – in fact I was beginning to think that the iphone weather app was stuck on the rain symbol when looking up Betws Read More …
It’s a little late but I thought I’d drop in a quick summary of our snowy exploits in Snowdonia over the New Year. No winter wild-camp, base-camp was a small hotel in Betws-y-coed, but as we drove up the weather was deteriorating as we headed west along the A5. Snow…let Read More …
Better late than never (I hope!). I’ve been meaning to write-up a few recent trips but Xmas and New Year is a such a busy time! After my last swine-flu aborted trip I was determined to fit in a quick weekend before Xmas. With the a wet November giving way Read More …
It was all planned as I headed up the M6 on Thurday afternoon. After picking up my nephew at Charnock Richard services, another 90 minute drive saw us into Ambleside for last minute provisions, before heading for Great Langdale camp-site. I’d been feeling a little ropey over the past few Read More …
The trudge up north on a Friday evening is never much fun and we finally arrived at Betws-y-Coed around 9.30pm, grabbed a bite to eat then headed further along the A5 to the trusty Dolgam campsite, pitching in the dark and in the rain. The forecast for Saturday was much Read More …
Bloody weather! I’d cancelled the trip a couple of weeks ago due to the weather and the forecast for this weekend was exactly the same – torrential rain and gale force winds. After a bit of ‘ umming and argh’ing on Friday afternoon I headed up north and after a Read More …