Family Adventures

23 hours 45 minutes The walking team

Llyn Idwal at sunrise

On the 3rd April 2021 I took on my biggest challenge to date, 65K (40 miles) of the Greensands Ridge starting in Leighton Buzzard across...

The race to get the building watertight before going away on holiday. Progress Treating the cladding was a huge task requiring a military...

With a house that has had every bit of extra space squeezed out of it I decide to expand in the garden with a garden office / room that...

Emerging from the Covid-19 lock-down and with a missed weekend scrambling around Tryfan (firstly the accommodation blew down, then...

A blank canvass. Stocking the wood supplies, homemade compost bin. Dividing the end of the garden to create a vegetable garden. Early...

Today, Monday 23rd March 2020 was the first day of school closure in the UK - just one measure put in place in an attempt to reduce the...

September 2019, we set out to tackle our first multi-pitch climb and chose the classic location of the East face of Tryfan, the chosen...

I got lots of lovely presents for my birthday. As everyone knows I love slime so Auntie Jo got me a Party Time Slime Kit so I could make...

This was a typical Friday night to Sunday climbing and scrambling weekend that James and I have begun to semi-regularly achieve. My aim...

A weekend stay at Hathersage's YHA (fortunately they had vacancies as on arrival when I looked for booking confirmation I found that I...

On the 10th March 2019 James and I attempted Crescent Climb on Pavey Ark, whilst Jase, Dave, Matt and Miles tackled Jack's Rake. James...

A recci of Foggintor Quarry (the scene of the Bear Grylls interview with Gareth Southgate) for the quality of climbing. Not worth the...

A late climb up Snowdon in better weather than I normally hope for in Summer.

A 40th birthday gift from Becky, my brothers and sister-in-laws and parents.

Our first attempt at a grade three scramble was on the Pinnacle Ridge, St Sunday Crag in the Lake District. My initial recollection is...

A cold and windy night in a tent close to the foot of Tryfan and an uncharted route up the east face.

Our first attempt in April of the previous year (Three Peaks) ended close to the summit in a white out, we hadn't followed the well...

This was a family trip when Evie was about 18 months old. We staying in Ambleside from where I walked the Fairfield Horseshoe ,straight...