Tag Archives: Work

Work, Work, Work……and Play

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Mark Reeves

I have for the last eight or nine days. I have lost count been teaching various people climbing, from basic movement coaching to escaping the system, and everything else in between. My last post was from Wednesday, so I’ll start … Continue reading →

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Intro to Trad Climbing: Tremadog

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Mark Reeves

After waking up to more rain, my heart sank, as I have spent the previous three days teaching climbing in the Beacon rather than Outdoors. It was meant to be day two of an Intro to Trad climbing, so despite … Continue reading →

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First Aid Certificate Renewal

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Mark Reeves

As a Mountaineering Instructor I, and everyone else who works in the outdoors or is the registered first aider at work has to undergo a renewal of there first aid certificate every three years. It never seems like three years … Continue reading →

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3 day ML Training Camp

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Mark Reeves

I had a great three days in and around snowdon over the last few days. We covered a moderate amount of ground but a lot of the syllabus. Starting off at Nant Peris we used the sherpa bus to get … Continue reading →

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ML Training with Andy Newton

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Mark Reeves

This weekend was a bit of a usual for me at the moment, as I spent it working for Andy Newton, working as the second member of staff on an ML Training Course. So we did the Mountain Dsy on … Continue reading →

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Final day “waterfall” climbing

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Mark Reeves

Well it was a horrorshow at tremadog today, it started wet and got wetter. My two guys did really well under the condition, and I am still basically damp, and probably will be until tomorrow. We climbed Boo Boo and … Continue reading →

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Upper Tier with the PYB Rock Imps

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Mark Reeves

Given the weather forecast today stu and I decided to take the team to the Upper Tier Tremadog, which is now more popular than ever thanks to Jack Geldards North Wales Classic’s Pocketz guide. Where before there only used to … Continue reading →

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Rock Improver with PYB

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Mark Reeves

Well spent the day with Stu MacAleese and a great little team on a rock improver course for Plas Y brenin, we visited bus stop and seamtress areas on the Slate. The weather was amazing as you can see. I … Continue reading →

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Ml Training Expedition

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Mark Reeves

Just got back from a glorious two days walking around Snowdon. The weather was supreb, although it was hard to make any form of diifficult navigation as the visibility was measurable in miles, despite the heat haze. So we head … Continue reading →

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A Brief History of Mountain Rescue

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Mark Reeves

I guess if we are going to explore the history of mountainr escue we must first travel back in time to when it became important enough an issue for there to be a need. So as we flick back through … Continue reading →

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