Year: 2019

  • 8 hours of geocaches

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    Kim wants to go geocaching. She loves geocaching, and when she starts walking its difficult to get her to stop. My legs will suffer.

  • Voodoo visits

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    We have a visitor this week, and he wants to surf and see the Gower. We can help with that. I’ve known him for 5 years or so, but I’ve no idea what he looks like.

  • Kim can lead

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    So we saw how Kim’s climbing technique is great, but her strength and finger stamina are holding her back on steeper routes. But what about her climbing head? Let’s see if she wants to lead some vertical stuff and how she gets on with that mentally. This is something we all go through as climbers…

  • Kim vs vertical

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    Kim spent the winter getting strong for climbing and rediscovering her technical skills by bouldering and braving the cold Gower coastline when it stopped raining. She has been struggling with the steeper climbs so far this year. But how does she do on slabs and less steep climbs?

  • Time and tide

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    A bank holiday weekend – what to do? What’s the tide doing? Hiking, rock climbing and kayaking. All by or in the sea.

  • Quiet climbs and windy kayaks

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    After Easter I took some time off work and had lots of time to do the things we like doing! The Gower was quiet again and we went cragging by the sea and kayaking in the sea before storm Hanna hit with her gale force winds. Also, bluebells in the woods. Not working. It’s great!

  • Gower kayaking and Easter sun

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    Paddling from Oxwich to Port Eynon and back in a perfect summer sea, passing the wreck of the Solor at low tide in Oxwich Bay that limped back here after being torpedoed by a u-boat in 1945. Also climbing on packed Easter Rhossili sea cliffs in the sun. The Easter weather was perfect for a…

  • Trying sea kayaking

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    This is something we’ve been waiting for and working towards for a while – starting to explore the Gower coastline from the sea. What trouble can we get into in kayaks in the sea? Learning.

  • Seaside bouldering

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    We’re out on the beaches and the coastline of the Gower peninsula looking for boulders to climb this week. And trying not to get cut off by the rising tide.

  • Third Sister

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    A dry week means some spring cragging outdoors by the sea. Let’s go somewhere new and try a couple of sport climbs that are supposed to be some of the best on the Gower.