I’ll talk about Doug Scott’s presentation separately, an amazing night, very well supported & raised a great deal for CAN, icing on the cake next year is being discussed………… With the first dusting of snow on the tops last weekend, a couple of frosts & another ‘coldish’ snap arriving yesterday morning it is almost feeling like winter, or at least more seasonal late autumnal weather, has arrived in Snowdonia. We must keep our fingers crossed

As we move towards the excitement of hosting Doug Scott OBE again this Saturday for his presentation ‘A Crawl Down the Ogre’ a further reconciliation was needed to finalise the amount raised for Reach Out for Nepal this year. I am delighted to announce that the figure has surged to £10,723.69 beating our target of £10,500, together with the two previous years the total now raised stands at an incredible £25,676.78 more than a thousand

Just a quick reminder that voting for The Great Outdoors Magazine annual awards closes in just one week’s time on 15th November. Snowdonia is well represented again this year, would you like to vote for us? it only takes a few minutes simply go to the TGO Magazine web-site & click on the awards to see all the categories. My votes also went to Joe Brown in the Independant Retailer category, Cotswold Outdoor in the

A final reminder that due to our hosting Doug Scott OBE presentation this coming Saturday we will be closing earlier than normal. For customers who haven’t reserved tickets for the presentation we will be closing at 18:00 with last orders for hot food being 17:30. For those attending the presentation (note it is now sold out) we will be serving a restricted menu with last orders for hot food being 18:30, this will allow us

My tapering didn’t go exactly to plan, I did however manage to stick to my plan for almost 2 days starting with last Tuesday’s planned short sharp run on tarmac, a 4.5 miler at more or less race pace. This was then followed on Wednesday (as planned) with a couple of climbs in the company of Dave Ball & his partner Tamsin, it was good to re-unite with Dave having got on well during our