It is all about weight, either inside the pack or on the feet. Light is Right. On a recent day ski tour in the French Alps with circa 1100m of ascent, starting at 1600m ASL, when I live at pretty much sea level! It was a hard workout indeed. At the end of the day, [...]
Way back in 1998 I bought my first mountaineering specific watch, a Suunto Vector with a 'champagne' coloured case, I didn't want a black case nor the very bright yellow case at the time. I went all over the world with this watch, from the mountains of Wales, Scotland, The Italian Dolomites, across the Haute [...]
So, winter mountaineering skills, it is clear that novice folks that want to join our winter mountaineering courses have preconceived ideas of what they need to learn, and those ideas are wrong. Sometimes they are wrong because the novice who wants to enjoy the mountains in winter, doesn't have the foundations skills that we wish [...]
Paramo vs Hardshell, my personal views I have been using Paramo clothing since 2003, prior to that I used a Buffalo Smock for many years as my main mid/outer weather protective layer. I have been using an Aspira Smock since 2004 in all weathers found in the UK in summer and in winter, as well [...]
That's right! Hydration bladders can ruin your navigation without you even realising it. Over the past year I have noticed an increasing problem of clients compasses being effected by unknown magnetic forces - apart from the magnetic poles of planet earth! On one occasion the effect was so great that it was causing the magnetic [...]
The past few weeks work has been pretty much back to back navigation courses in Snowdonia. I have delivered everything from novice level navigation for lowland areas, to advanced winter navigation techniques and Gold Level NNAS training courses. Today however was the first day I was simply leading a guided hike/scrambling day for a couple [...]
We heard that the clever people at Ordnance Survey had created a digital map of the planet Mars, and as we have a love (or perhaps an infatuation) with their lovely maps, we’re very pleased to announce that Snowdonia Adventures will be the first navigation course provider on Mars. The first two-day course will be [...]
My post yesterday that I shared wouldn't show up due to my retardedness with technology! So before folk start going off as I've seen in one comment, this is ski patrol at Glencoe setting this off on purpose so the public don't get caught. Throughout the day I set off 12 avalanches in areas that [...]
Our website was in need of an overhaul, the last major update and design was way back on 2007 and things move fast in the world of the ‘net, so it was time to update, and the search began for a company to design a new website for us, we chose Craig at Purple Custard, [...]
