Climbing

Climbing with Ranjit at Wolf Mountain

Jan 4th, 2012 | By | Category: Climbing, Personal

It’s been a while since I’ve been out climbing with Ranjit. He was actually responsible for introducing me to the world of climbing a number of years ago now, but we don’t often find the opportunity to get out together these days. However, with things still a bit quiet after the Christmas holidays, today was [...]



Climbing With Concord College at Shrewsbury Climbing Wall

Nov 9th, 2011 | By | Category: Climbing

Today was the forth and last activity session that I will be doing with Concord College this term. We have a number of other sessions booked for 2012, but we’ll wait for the weather and daylight to improve so that we can make the most of it. This afternoon, we headed for the indoor climbing wall [...]



Abseiling and Orienteering with Concord College

Nov 2nd, 2011 | By | Category: Climbing, Featured, Navigation

In the last few weeks, I have had the pleasure of running several sessions for a group of pupils from Concord College. As part of their Mountain Sports club, we spent time rock climbing and canoeing before half term. Today we met at Nesscliffe Hill Country Park for an afternoon of abseiling and orienteering. Nesscliffe [...]



Exploring Possible Climbing Venues

Oct 31st, 2011 | By | Category: Climbing, Personal

Us outdoor instructors tend to develop a set of venues for different activities that we become familiar with and know work. This is all well and good, but there’s always that niggling thought in the back of your head that perhaps there’s somewhere even better, or that might be better located for certain groups. With [...]



Climbing at Llanymynech with Concord College

Oct 12th, 2011 | By | Category: Climbing

One of the teaching staff at Concord College, just south of Shrewsbury, has been keen for some time to encourage the pupils from the College to get involved in various outdoor activities. In an attempt to see this get properly off the ground, he has started up a Mountain Sports Club which has gained the [...]



Rock Climbing at Trevor

Aug 15th, 2011 | By | Category: Climbing

This is the second week of Ellesmere College’s Adventure + holiday club, and with a different group of children signed up, this week’s programme looks rather similar to last week’s. The morning was spent playing various games with the aim of helping the kids to get to know each other. After a slightly early lunch, we [...]



Rock Climbing with Adventure +

Aug 8th, 2011 | By | Category: Climbing

For the last couple of years now, I have spent 2 weeks of the Summer working at Ellesmere College on their Adventure + holiday programme which is open to children up to 14 years of age. A number of the children on this week’s course have done Adventure + before, so we were looking to [...]



Indoor Bouldering at Ellesmere Colege

Apr 18th, 2011 | By | Category: Climbing

Today was the first of a four day activity holiday club at Ellesmere College. Adventure + has been running for a couple of years now and seems to be very popular with those kids that come along. This afternoon I was using the College’s own indoor bouldering wall to introduce the kids to a few [...]



An ‘Awsome’ Party

Jan 29th, 2011 | By | Category: Climbing, Parties, Personal

It’s my son’s birthday in a few days time and he tends to want to do something a bit different as a birthday treat. Last year, Alfie invited a couple of friends along to the Adventure Rope Course for an afternoon. That seemed to go down well, so he fancied a visit to an indoor [...]



Indoor Climbing with Ellesmere Primary School

Dec 3rd, 2010 | By | Category: Climbing

In recent weeks, I’ve done a number of sessions for some of the pupils from Ellesmere Primary School. Today was the first of two indoor climbing sessions at the Plas Madoc Leisure Centre. There were only 6 pupils taking part, after another couple dropped out due to the seasonal illness going around, but we made [...]



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