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 […]

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Today we both signed up for membership at the Craggy Island indoor climbing wall in Guildford.  Whilst sports climbing is not really our bag, indoor climbing will help us with ropework practice, finger and body strength and general route finding and confidence for scrambling.
We enjoyed a few hours climbing easier grade 3 and 4 as […]

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En route to Glencoe to start our winter mountaineering course with Adventure Peaks we called in on Clare and Tony in the Lake District. Taking advantage of the sunshine they took us on a great walk up to Alcock Tarn - thanks guys!

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