Rock Skills

The first real snows of winter have arrived on the mountain tops of Snowdonia.

The clear morning skies meant that I pulled over several times to delight in the views of this mornings commute to Plas y Brenin, where I was to be spending the bulk of my day.

The irony of spending a day like this indoors on a training workshop for providing 'Rock Skills' courses was not lost on me. However, as Mountain Training are in the process of introducing this new course, it was good to be a part of the first wave of instructors who are now trained to deliver this new scheme.

The day started off with the standard 'lecture' type chat, before we broke off to spend the rest of the day in smaller groups working through the details of the syllabus.

This involved a good deal of technical chat and a look through a bewildering array of belay devices and karabiners!

I made it home in time for a quick brew with John, who was passing by The Cottage from the Lake District, before heading straight back out to Capel Curig to support Sam and Mick who were running a winter skills lecture for the BMC - how timely with snow on the hills now!