Winter skills course with Mountaineering Joe. Different types of cramponing, buckets seats with buried axe belays , body belaying, and ice axe arresting are just some of the skills practiced over the days out. Winter skills are essential in order to cope the different types of winter conditions which may be encountered. Winter skills days […]
Winter skills weekend with Mountaineering Joe. Walking in Scotland in winter requires good navigation skills. With heavy snow falling you can lose the path and the shape of the land so quickly so good compass skills are essential. I picked them up from the station and dropped them back after the weekend. So they didn’t […]
Winter Walking in Cwm Bochlwyd, Ogwen Valley in Snowdonia. Walking in the Ogwen Valley Around the side of Tryfan. A great winter day out with beautiful views across Snowdonia. Mountaineering Joe
Winter navigation. There can be far less features around like walls, fences and streams. Therefore it is much more important to interpret the shape of the land and use your compass more accurately in Winter. Winter navigation with Mountaineering Joe
Winter walking in Snowdonia on the Glyders. In between the storms we have been having it great out there. We walked through Cwn Idwal climbed the North Ridge of Y Garn. The weather came it and we escaped the high winds of 60 plus down devil’s kitchen path but a great day out in the […]
Dylan is starting to preparing for the ML training course. He wants to get the most out of his training as it is a preparation for assessment not a basic mountain skills course . Today we looked at the level of navigation expected. Micro navigation in the ML award is a high standard and to […]
Winter climbing on Bristly Ridge in Snowdonia. We walked Tryfan Bwlch and Climbed Bristly Ridge via Sinister Gully on the right hand side on the main Bristly Ridge and finished on top of the main Glyders cliff. We were well protected in the gully out of the wind and had a great day! With Mountaineering […]
A day spend practicing gear placements on real rock. Jan wanted to practice placing all types of gear on rock before leading a multi pitch climbing in Snowdonia. I have included a few simple placements she tried out during the day. Moving from indoors to outdoors climbing with MountaineeringJoe
Guided Walking along the Anglesey coastal path around Moelfre area. While walking the Anglesey coastal path we visited the new boat house and life boat at Moelfre which has beautiful views across the bay we could see the snow topped mountains of Snowdonia. A lovely part of the Anglesey coastal path to walk.
We walked out towards Abermenai Point across the sand dunes which are some of the largest in Europe. Stunning views from the sand dunes of the mountains of Snowdonia. We then walked along towards Newborough beach and found the walk ways from the car park under sand with the high winds we have been during. […]