December so far.

Normally December means slowing down but I seem to be busy so far. Thus far life has included some work instructing a family gorge scrambling and abseiling, a couple of days taking friends kayaking, lots of time out with Santa for Round Table and a night out with the Sound System.

Family group in the Afon Ddu Gorge. Abseiling in Vivian Quarry.
Quick swim for Ben and Kitty on the Llugwy.

Contemplating the jump.
Caernarfon Round Table on the road with Santa.

Kev following me down a rapid at Llangollen.

Flyer for the latest night.

The night in full swing.

New website gone live.

We have been working on the new activities website http://www.adventuresinwales.co.uk/ for a while now but yesterday it went live. Thanks very much to Pete at http://chargingarc.com/ for the design of the site and Chris at http://www.freerangedevelopers.co.uk/ for making it work.

2011 Adventure Leaflets

The 2011 activity leaflets arrived in the office yesterday and are already making there way out around North Wales.

Two years on.

Two years ago some friends and I went to explore the Cynfal Gorge, we only made it as far as Rhaeadr y Cwm. We felt the prudent choice was to come back another time when the water levels were not rising and we had not underestimated the length of rope needed. The Sunday just gone about two years since we last visited some of the original party returned for another go. On this occasion Will, Mark and I made the journey from above Rhaeadr y Cwm to Rhaeadr Cynfal.

This is a spectacular gorge as you can hopefully see in the photos below and a great committing adventure. If you go to do it take a good amount of rope as we previously found a single 50m to potentially be a little short. This time we took 120m which was defiantly more than needed but was what was in stores on the day. Also don’t forget some tat and old crabs to leave behind on the abseils, some of the kit left from others looks very faded with river debris wrapped around it.

Will abseiling in.

Mark feeling drained after retrieving the abseil rope on Rhaeadr y Cwm.
Will leaping from the bottom Rhaeadr y Cwm.
Mark and Will repacking the ample rope after abseiling the fall above.
Mark (closest) and Will wading on downstream.

Will on a slide between Bont-Newydd and the Viaduct.