Well, on Saturday I headed up to Llangollen where Uni of Central Lancs, has a new state of the art outdoor centre set up for the delivery of one of the most practical outdoor degrees I have every seen or heard of. 1 week in every three the entire year spends a week at the residential centre putting a practical slant to the theories they learn in Preston. Having worked for Plas Y Brenin, the national mountaineering centre done an MSc alongside the Bangor sport science outdoor activity course, I can reliably say that this course from the packaging is the bomb when it comes to setting you up for working in the outdoor industry.
I felt priveledged to be invited onto the induction day for freelance staff, as those present truly were the creme of people I have worked with along with some who whilst I haven’t worked alongside them reputations went before them. If you are thinking of doing a degree based study that looks at outdoor activities then I would recommend you looking at this course.
I finally got round to celebrating handing in my thesis on saturday night this pretty much wrote off Sunday, although I did manage to get a bouldering session in that evening. I was back at the beacon at 9am route setting. Hanging off ropes all day is tiring, ackward and uncomfortable work. The route I set weren’t the best unfortunately, the section of wall i was setting on is pretty difficult to make nice flowing routes, I shall probably try and get there tomorrow and adjust some of the routes if someone hasn’t done so tonight.
Other than that I am trying to avoid utter despair at the weather.