There is a crag clean up tonight at Peanmean Head, aka the 70 degrees
crag in Colwyn Bay. The clean up starts at 5pm and the BBQ courtsey of
the BMC will be served up at some point in the evening, there will also
be the opportnity to climb some of the great routes here. [...]
Life in the Vertical
…and roasting it in the middle. Probably best describes my life
this week. I have just handed in, well emailed the final few tweaks
(1.30am). It will be finalised on friday, when I have to go into the
office and sign off the final proof. This will ensure that it makes its
1st September deadline. On [...]
I have decided to offer a “How to Big Wall Course” over the
weekend of 15th & 16th August 2010. I guess it is the last date that
would be available to anyone heading out to Yosemite to attempt a Big
Wall. What this course offers is a run through all the skills you need [...]
I seem to have a habit of changing my websites on a regular basis, this
time I choose to try and teach myself how to use joomla based web site
to up grade my coaching and instructing site snowdonia mountain
guides. It is still under the Life in the Vertical domain, but I plan to
set [...]
Having a new computor has meant that I have had to import all the photos
I want onto my laptop, from where they were backed up onto a hard drive.
The problem has been that I have around 13000 images that I need to sift
through in order to find the images that I want. It [...]
Well, my old mac simply won’t turn on now, so I forked out the
cash for a new MacBook Pro. Ouch, it really hurt paying for, it, as I
can now only afford realistically to go on holiday for two weeks. Unless
work picks up, but seeing as I have heard of no work instructing [...]
Well its continuing to lash it down, which is an arse, after all having
so much time on my hands it would be nice to get out climbing. However I
have been stuck in doors twiddling my thumbs, trying not to get too
bored. I might take up knitting to while away the hours, seeing [...]
Well I spent this morning running round Ogwen with Llion, looking at the
various descent off the Milestone and Idwal Slabs. we of course soloed a
few easier routes to get to the descents. It was a little frantic as we
had a 2pm deadline, mainly due to the the rain moving up from the [...]
As I haven’t been working I have managed to get out and about and
get some climbing in, although nothing too hard. In the main I have
visiting so obscure crags like the gesail and Craig Wen. Despite the
weather I did manage a few night climbing this week. A quick rainbow
circuit got five [...]
Are we about to witness the death of outdoor education?
Life in the Vertical 2 weeks ago | Reads 3 (cached version)
Well my computer has died, well i am hoping that its just the battery as
£1000 is at least a months worth of the states gone! Besides my
plan to save has hit a bit of a hurdle as my main employer the Brenin
appears to be very quiet at the moment, what with the [...]
I was searching for some info on a totally unrelated thin, but my search
of blogs and climbing brought up this. I can imagine that it would have
been a surreal experience for the climbing wall and instructors.
Although I have recently seen various Celeb’s in and around
Snowdonia over the last few years. Barry Mcwigan [...]
