After spending half of last week on exercise with Ellesmere College CCF, I've spent all of this week with them on their annual Summer Camp. Each year they take a group of cadets to an Army training camp for a week of military and adventurous training, and this year we headed to Penally on the South Wales coat near Tenby. Sunday was spent on a watermanship … Read More »
Category Archives: Climbing
Climbing with Ranjit at Wolf Mountain
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 the perfect chance. With the weather a bit cold, wet and … Read More »
Climbing With Concord College at Shrewsbury Climbing Wall
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 at Shrewsbury Sports Village which is nice and local to the … Read More »
Abseiling and Orienteering with Concord College
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 has a large abseil (about 40m) which attracts people from quite … Read More »
Exploring Possible Climbing Venues
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 this in mind, I met up with Chris Hughes today for … Read More »
Climbing at Llanymynech with Concord College
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 interest of 14 students that have signed up for a … Read More »
Rock Climbing at Trevor
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 headed straight out to Trevor, for half a day's rock climbing … Read More »
Rock Climbing with Adventure +
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 build some progression into the programme. Today we started off with … Read More »
Indoor Bouldering at Ellesmere Colege
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 basic climbing techniques, but mainly to have a bit of fun … Read More »
An ‘Awsome’ Party
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 climbing wall this time around. I've taken him to a … Read More »
