Book Work: Maintenance and Care of Gear

I spent yesterday editing my book “How to Climb Harder”, up to about page 40 now, I had to write a new section on the care and maintenance of gear, so rather than use my general knowledge I went over to DMM factory and got the information from the horses mouth. It was very interesting, and I will probably put this information up on my coaching blog in the next week or so if and when i find the time.

I did go out on a mini pub crawl of llanberis last night as well, we started off in the Heights, which was pretty dead, I can remember a time when any day of the week you go in there and see a handful of climbers. Now it seems to be devoid of any character, whether that is an effect of the recession or the longer term problem of Llanberis house prices forcing climbers to the hinterlands, who knows. We walk past the empty Padarn Lake Hotel, and onto The Gwynedd, which was empty other than the three of us. So much for going out for a social life!

The music was a right trip down memory lane, a 80’s playlist took us back to our youth, although the beer prices didn’t! We finished off walking back down the High Street to my true local the Prince of Wales. A truly aweful pub in terms of decoration, but the busiest in the village it seems, as there was a whole bunch of people in there.

Anyway I should share with you the worse song from the Gwynedd.

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