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Winter skills over a weekend

Mountaineering, Private Guiding, Walking, Winter Walking and Winter Skills

A great day out in winter in Scotland with Mountaineering Joe

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 even need a car! Winter skills with Mountaineering Joe

Winter navigation across the cairngorms

Winter Walking in Cwm Bochlwyd, Ogwen Valley in Snowdonia.

Private Guiding, Snowdonia, Winter Walking and Winter Skills

Winter walking in Snowdonia Winter walking up towards the Glyders

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 in Snowdonia. Concentrating on Identifying contour features

Private Guiding, Walking, Winter Walking and Winter Skills

Beautiful walking around Capel Curig

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

Identifiying contour features.

Walking in Snowdonia and preparation for ML Training course

Navigation and Map Reading, Private Guiding, Snowdonia, Walking, Winter Walking and Winter Skills

Navigating on complex ground

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 reach this takes practice so his ML training will be fine tuning not a shock! Dylan certainly has a natural talent for navigation and he was finding his way around complex steep ground efficiently ! An excellent day with Mountaineering Joe

Beautiful views across the Snowdonia range

Winter climbing in Sinister Gully on Bristly Ridge in Snowdonia

Adventure Holidays, Mountain Challenges, Mountaineering, Navigation and Map Reading, Private Guiding, Snowdonia

The final steep section of Sinister Gully

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 Joe

Starting up Sinister Gully on Bristly Ridge

Rock climbing in Snowdonia. Moving from Indoor to outdoor climbing

Mountaineering, Private Guiding, Rock Climbing

The nut has good contact on both sides making it quite stable

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

The way the Hex is placed allowes for a good camming action in the crack

Guided Walking along the Anglesey coastal path around Moelfre area

Isle of Anglesey, Private Guiding, Snowdonia, Walking

Stunning path along the Anglesey coastal path

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.

The fantastic new life boat

Guided walking on the Anglesey Coastal path with beautiful views across Snowdonia.

Isle of Anglesey, Private Guiding, Testimonials, Uncategorized, Walking

Anglesey coastal Path: Fantastic Sand dunes

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. An excellent day’s walking on the Anglesey coastal path.

The sand can move very quickly in high winds

Learn the techniques to extend your climbing to multi pitch Rock climbing

Adventure Holidays, Private Guiding, Rock Climbing, Scrambling, Snowdonia

Learning Multi pitch climbing techniques. Learning how place gear on the lead and looking relaxed. Keeping in balance is important while placing gear so as to not get pumped

Learn the techniques to extend your rock climbing to multi pitch Rock climbing. A weekend of Learning Multi pitch rock climbing techniques. We spend the weekend addressing some of the issues and problems which you may come across on multi pitch rock climbing. Placing different types gear on the lead while keeping in balance, the techniques the second rock climber can use when removing hard gear placements . Good rope and stance management while setting up belays and safe abseiling techniques keeping you safe before you abseil. An excellent weekend despite the weather at this time of the year!

Learning Multi pitch climbing techniques. Learning how to retrieve gear while abseiling

Rock climbing on Anglesey in the Mousetrap Zawn on Green Slab (HVS)

Mountaineering, Private Guiding, Rock Climbing, Snowdonia

We had to be very careful because of the loose rocks

A great day out rock climbing on The Green Slab in the South Stack area in Mousetrap Zawn. We climbed The green slab (HVS) which is a bit more loose as you would want on a climb!…But great fun such amazing atmosphere!

Not much space