I’ve been in Snowdonia for a while doing some training and some personal hillwalking, this is a random collection of photo’s in between some fairly wild weather. These rather fantastic Welsh wild ponies were high up the Carneddau range, I’d climbed the beautiful Pen yr Ole Wen ridge from Idwal cottage. I’d climbed this in the winter years ago and recall how good it was so I wanted to go back and do it again.

Finding these ponies was just a bonus, they look so at home in the mountains and it’s great we’ve still got space for them to roam free like this.


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On a recent trip to the UK I’d promised I’d go out for the day with my niece Amy. When the day came I’d not really got a plan other than an idea that there would be an activity that both of enjoyed equally as we’re quite similar in a lot of ways although I obviously have the looks!

I happened to look at a photo’ on a website that showed a high rope course and realised I’d struck paydirt, there was a course nearby run by Go Ape who have 16 such centres around the UK. It turned out to be a fantastic couple of hours, obviously you need a head for heights and to be able to trust the safety equipment but I’ve spent enough of my life hung around on mountains in harnesses so it’s not a big deal for me but the flying through the air on zip lines is just fantastic fun.

I really recommend it to anyone looking for an adventurous day out.

Scrambling towards some steeper ground on a Mountain Leader course from Plas y Brenin in the typical wet Welsh weather.

High up on the exposed ridge of Pen yr Ole Wen in the Carneddau range of North Wales.