Panoramic Route
Sabi Sand Game Reserve Safari
Waterval Boven
The next leg of our South African adventure was Waterfall Boven. I’ve been to Waterval Boven before on an international meet run by the Mountain Club of South Africa. It’s a great sport climbing venue, with a few high quality trad lines too, but it’s certainly the tough sport climbing here that gives it international …
Cape Town
A post CC AGM day in Cwm Idwal
Although we did get out Saturday morning for a bit of bumble around the Llanberis slate quarries most of the day was taken up with CC business. I had a presentation to deliver about the Ynys Ettws refurbishment, then there was the AGM, talks from Mina Mina Leslie-Wujastyk and Maddie Cope, and finally dinner and …
Caravan, Camping, and Motorhome Show at the NEC
We’d snagged some complimentary tickets to the Caravan, Camping, and Motorhome Show at the NEC, and all we had to do for them was promise to write a report about the show on this site. Ha, as if that wasn’t going to happen! 😉 This is exactly the sort of thing we love to write …
BMC Meetings & Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail
Winter Skills on Helvellyn
Last Sunday I was up early to meet Joe and his large group of 14 people in Glenridding for a day looking at winter skills, ice axe arrest, and a wintry scramble up Swirral Edge to the summit of Helvellyn. The forecast wasn’t great, but it could have been worse, and in the end it …