I’ve run a number of courses for the Air Training Corps in the past and this weekend I was running a site-specific climbing wall course for a group of officers at Nescliffe training base. Over 2 days we looked at all the key skills they need to run safe sessions with groups as well as ways to deal with the variety of things that can go wrong.

A very sunny weekend, a brilliant group and fantastic hospitality meant the course was bound to go well. Nescliffe now has a new group of instructors that can use the climbing tower and mobile wall and I have an even greater respect for the time and effort they put in to their work. Many thanks to you all.

While I was enjoying the hospitality down south Craig was running an introductory climbing session in the Peak District. He met up with 8 adults and children from London who were keen to try gritstone climbing for the first time. By all accounts they had a great time and I hope they may go on to do more in the future.

Finally, while all that was going on we had a number of orienteering sessions running for a local school. The children had a great time weaving their way around a challenging course……shame the adults couldn’t keep up! Thanks to the staff, children and parents for a fun day. See you all again in September.