Ali and Lay’s Mountaineering Blog

With an MSc assignment deadline looming for Ali I stepped in to cover her commitment to a Bronze DoE group today.

Together with another leader we had a group of six enthusiastic teenagers on a planned practice walk through Staunton country park.

I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed my first encounter with a DoE group.  It was a great feeling to help them with their navigation and to be “putting something back” into the community.

Whilst time is limited this year I would like to be more involved with DoE in the years to come.  To this end I have signed up for the Mountain Leader Award so I can start working on my logbook.  I hope to complete my ML Training week at Plas y Brenin towards the end of the year.