If you are looking to complete your Climbing Wall Instructor training or assessment over the summer check out the CWI page. New dates have been added. As always, if these dates aren't suitable or you wish to book bespoke dates for a group please get in touch.

Today I took part in the Stratford upon Avon Triathlon. It was a good event and nice to do a triathlon again after a break. 

Today was a training event as in July I will be doing Ironman Bolton with my friend Julie to raise money for Mind and Beat, in memory of her friend Claire. 

If you would like to sponsor me the link is https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Team/Ironman2018 

Yesterday I finished delivering 3 days of rescue training for staff at Go Ape Trent Park. I had a great time working with the team, despite the wet weather! Here is a video of me 'monkeying' around on the zip wire before heading home.

It's been a fairly hectic week back starting with a fully subscribed (12 person) CWA training course at The Benham centre and The Pinnacle followed by a CWA assessment at Big Rock and then a coaching CPD session for the Big Rock staff team. Saturday also saw the first of the DofE training sessions of the year at Quinton House School.

Had a great day today and climbed Goat Track gully with The Tempest Two but the wind felt much stronger than forecast so we were a little bit wind battered by the end of the day :)

After the high winds and poor avalanche forecasts last week I came back to Scotland with The Tempest Two to do some climbing and consolidate for my MIC. The weather today was amazing in the Cairngorms with wall to wall sunshine, light winds and really good consolidated ice throughout... Excited for tomorrow :)

Just spent an amazing week in the Cairngorms on my Mountaineering Instructor Certificate training. The weather was a very mixed bag with lots of snow, 110mph winds, Blizzards and some sunshine too. 

Had a really good day at Big Rock climbing centre today running a Mountain Training CWAA (Climbing Wall Abseil Award) assessment. If you would like to become a climbing instructor or still need to complete a CWA or CWAA assessment, please contact us for details and prices.

Just spent a lovely couple of days in Scotland teaching winter skills to a great group of young adults and generally playing in the snow. There is good amount of snow around still and it was coming down quite thick and fast yesterday. If you would like to learn how to operate safely within the winter environment it's not too late for 2018 as we still have places available on skills courses.

At the weekend I was in Wales for the Buff Winter Trail Wales and the Association of Mountaineering Instructors AGM. 

We ran the beautiful trails of Coed y Brenin on Saturday, it was a very cold race with lots of mud and even snow but we had a fantastic time. After warming up with a cup of tea in our finishers' mug it was time to head over to Plas y Brenin for the Association of Mountaineering Instructors AGM on the Saturday night and a workshop by Rab and Lowe Alpine on the Sunday.

The AGM was a...