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we’ve just had a weekend of amazing weather in the Peak District and we were out with Jon and Annabel on a beginners climbing course. practicing our footwork Saturday saw a fairly chilly start but developed to a lovely blue sky day. We headed up to Burbage North and worked our way down . . . → Read More: Beginners Climbing Nate and Nicola joined up with the First Mountains Team on sunday to find get a feel for climbing on one of our climbing taster days! Fortunately the weather was better than forecasted and we enjoyed lovely sunshine for most of the day! If anything the weather was a bit too calm which left . . . → Read More: Getting a Taste! This saturday we ran a slightly shortened Improvers climbing course. The forecast of bad weather meant we decided to run a one day course and focus entirely on rope work. This is one of the great things of always working with low ratios is that changes like this are easy to make! We spent . . . → Read More: A windy Improvers Climbing Course Over the weekend we had Katherine, Kayleigh and Krysia Climbing with us in the Peak District. This course was run by Nick Mortley who stepped in on friday to cover me as I have hurt my back and shoulders in a car accident on Thursday. They had a great first day top roping climbs on Burbage . . . → Read More: August Beginners Climbing From the car park looking towards the Crag There is a good reason they call it Stanage popular end. With a good amount of parking, a short walk up the hill and a great set of routes all at an amenable grade this section of Grit Stone probably sees more traffic than . . . → Read More: Stanage Popular- popular by nature There are many things in the mountaineering world that we use rarely but when we need to use them it’s critical that we get them right. They tend to be safety related often being useful in rescues or with rope work to get us out of a tricky situation! With a big climbing plan put . . . → Read More: Practice makes perfect! On friday we met up with Amparo and her Daughter, Alba for a day out climbing. The weather was great a slight breeze with glorious sunshine this meant we could take our time getting kitted up and enjoying the area we were climbing in. We started we a short exploration of the area around . . . → Read More: Family Climbing day With possibly the worst forecast of any course this year we met up on saturday morning in a very wet Hathersage. After a quick chat about the weekend ahead it seemed like the weather was starting to brighten so we headed out to practice some rope work whilst the crag dried. Constructing a . . . → Read More: Improvers Climbing, Anchors, gear and loads of climbing! We’ve just finished running another one of our Climbing Taster days! This is an action packed day spent climbing and abseiling. Six great people joined us in the Peak District to enjoy a mornings climbing followed by an afternoon of abseiling. The weather stayed dry although it was fairly blustery in the morning, we . . . → Read More: Mega Taster Day fun Its 5pm and your already out of the office and in the car heading out to the Peak ready for some hard earned climbing time! Stanage, “Apparent north” is the destination and a short walk in equipped with only a bouldering pad leads you to your escape and some less frequently visited gems.
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