[GUEST POST] Our first contact with Lucy Maddison was in May 2020 when she joined our mentoring programme. She booked onto our Mountain Leader Steep Ground Masterclass in June 2020, and our Contour Masterclass in July 2020. Here she tells about her experience on her Mountain Leader assessment course.
Read MoreFollowing on from our previous blog post with tips on how to practise your personal climbing skills at home, this week we’re focusing on Mountain Leader rope skills, and how to keep them up to date at home. This is probably the syllabus area that is most challenging for Mountain Leaders, and you won’t need to use these skills very often, so it is doubly important to put in a bit of time and boost your confidence, ready for when you can get out in the hills again.
Read More[GUEST POST] There has never been a better time to be baking. Be it bread, brownies, flapjacks or anything else you feel like throwing together and putting in the oven, baking is a way of being creative, providing an ideal opportunity to share your inventions with others, both on the hill or left on the doorstep of your neighbour alike.
Read More[GUEST POST] Welcome to the Plog Blog! Anne and Chris invited me to write this guest blog after I responded to their call to their online community for pictures of adventures, micro and macro, to include in their monthly newsletter. I sent a picture of Elli and me plogging - perhaps it was the big cheesy grins or the marigolds that caught their eye.
Read MoreWe all have our rucksack-packing habits, and our go-to kit that is familiar and reliable. Not having to make any decisions when you’re getting ready to head out into the mountains saves time and effort. But it’s good from time to time to try out new things, especially if someone recommends a bit of kit that they really like. Here are seven things that I always take with me in my rucksack, and why I like them.
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