Blog Entries from Alan Halewood
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Last Update: Sunday, July 23, 2017 - 10:10
Eve and Amy came with a brief to look at some technical and psychological issues to give them more confidence in their multi-pitch climbing and we were lucky enough with a dry, breezy (almost too...
Great to see Jenny back today. We've done some winter climbing and other things in the past and she wanted a good day out with a bit of mountaineering teaching input. She's doing a PhD in Geology and...
A bit wetter than expected but sheltered from the wind on Tower Ridge today with MIA Trainee Adam who was taking up Juri and Marcin. We even got a few views from Ledge Route in descent. Captions at:...
The weather forecast was teasing me as at one stage it looked like we'd get a dry afternoon but last night the Met Office settled on wet all day and they were right. Nonetheless there were plenty of...
Such a pleasure to be out on a more pleasant day today. Apparently there has been some warm weather down south but we haven't seen so much of that up here! That just makes a good dry day out on the...
Second day of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors Trainee workshop and today was all about climbing: parallel, series, series to parallel, teaching progressions, options for descent and...
Wet and remarkably cold today (think more like late October than July) on Curved Ridge. It was a challenge to maintain a learning environment and to prevent the day becoming survival only for the 3...
Today I was out observing Andy who wanted some feedback on his progress towards gaining the Mountain Instructor Award. He'd arranged 2 volunteers from Glasgow University Mountaineering Club to teach...
I spent the weekend working with Craig and Gordon as part of a Mountaineering Scotland course aimed at teaching mountaineering skills. The weather on saturday was dreich and cold but we headed into...
After a busy few days revalidating my First Aid Qualification with BASP at Nevis Range (excellent course as ever- highly practical- well taught and ever interesting) and running both CWA and...