Monthly Archives: May 2012

I have some work coming up, and have had a few requests for some experience/shadowing from various MIA trainees. I have emailled most of them, but none are available for the course. If you think you might want to come … Continue reading →

Well many people have known about the Olympic Torch going up Snowdon. Yet actually getting concrete information was woefully poor. Eventually we narrowed it down to early today, so myself and three friends set out to scale the peak to … Continue reading →

Another great day although there was some rain threatened in the mountains. So Si and I headed over to Gogarth as he had a couple of routes he wanted to do on North Stack Wall. There was a lovely breeze … Continue reading →

Just after christmas I worked on an update for North Wales Rock, this has been ready to go for a while, as I just updated the database. It resulted in nearly another 100 routes being added to the database along … Continue reading →

  Well to be honest I don’t know, but I am pretty sure I belayed Caff on it today. The story started late last night when I was 4 pints into an evening in the heights. So the morning was … Continue reading →

The News today will probably be about Kenton Cool high alttitude Mountain Guide and now 10 times summiteer of Everest. Today he climbed it to put the Medal won in 1924 by the original Everest Expedition. When the medal was … Continue reading →

Well, last night I head to the Cromlech Boulders for a quick boulder. A good scene although we had to run away from the crowds and hide on the left hand blocks. Almost too hot to pull hard, but a … Continue reading →

I have climbed a lot in the Slate quarries and have climbed many of the classics numerous times. As such I like to think I have a reasonable appreciation of what is good and what is not. Whilst many newcomers … Continue reading →

Well it has been an interesting time in the last few days. First I returned from my mini break assessing on an ML to find a letter from the IRS who have allocated me a US tax code. What this … Continue reading →

Many ofmyfriends know that I like to get my geek on. Spending hours at a time look at frustrating lines of code wondering how I can get something to work. When I grew up my school had a few BBC … Continue reading →