Well, I have had to take a day off climbing in the nice weather, firstly no one to climb with, and secondly I have run out of clean clothes. So i have to start the long process of washing drying and even tidying my room. Despite the great weather it is still sunny outside, although the wind is howling down the pass. I have also started doing some typing up of some thoughts on chapters for a new book, which isn’t going to be a “How to…” instead it is more tall tails from my life as a climber, mixed into the general theme of the ‘An Idiots guide to Mountaineering, Rock Climbing and Adventure Travel’, me being the idiot.
It looks like I will have some time on my hands to work on this as the coming weeks, if not months are totally blank when it comes to work, which is a bit disappointing. However I hope that the sales from December to June of ‘How to Climb Harder’ might come through before I run out of cash. So if you are thinking of buying a copy, then don’t put it off! It just seems that many of the centres I work for are extremely quiet, as the current economic climate is meaning that no one has any cash to spend on Rock Climbing and Mountaineering Courses.
Although I have noted that at times there are five or more MIA trainees offering free instruction to people in the Rocktalk forum. Which kind of makes it pointless advertising coaching courses on UKC forums when they are allowing people to offer the courses for free without paying for a premiere post. After all whilst they might not be assessed yet and may lack the type of experience that the more establish instructors offer, the courses they offer can’t be anything but value for money!
Anyway, if your about and fancy climbing over the next month I am essentially on a stay-cation in Cwm Y Glo, and keen to get out on the rock whenever possibly.