Whilst we wait patiently in the wings for the scene to be set for this year’s winter epics in Snowdonia, I’m taking a look back at my snowboarding highlight from last season’s adventures in the mountains of North Wales – an awesome day of boarding under blue skies and sunshine on Y Braich, in the Carneddau range. Okay, so we ...
On Sunday 29th November, mountain bikers from around the UK headed to Coed Y Brenin for Round 4 of the Welsh Gravity Enduro. Rob Williams took first place in the Elite Men class. He finished second in each stage of the round, with a total time of 15:40.641. Rob beat Leon Rosser by 3.572s, with Joe Taylor a further 8.588s behind ...
A British climber has revealed how he had to prise open the jaws of a grizzly bear with his bare hands after the animal launched a horrendous attack while climbing in the Canadian Rockies. Greg Boswell, 24, from Fife, and friend Nick Bullock, from Llanberis, Gwynedd, North Wales, were scaling an ascent called Dirty Love on the 3,261ft Mount Wilson ...
With the third year anniversary looming and the cold weather returning, we look back on a clip that shocked the nation. On February 24th 2013 Mark Roberts set out on a routine climb in Snowdonia, near Crib Goch with two friends. But a chunk of falling ice, soon changed the shape of their day when it knocked him into a ...
Pick the perfect cottage for your next North Wales adventure and have the best activities right on your doorstep. No more excuses, it’s time to try something new… With the guys and gals at Extreme North Wales bringing Wales to the rest of the World, or rather the rest of the World to Wales; we’ve teamed up with them to ...
One of the little told stories of green laners is their community spirit, especially when it comes to the protection of our ancient network of unsurfaced roads.. There is a small and destructive minority of people that are able to disproportionately affect public opinion and it is a constant battle that is proving very difficult to overcome. North Wales remains ...
For those of you who haven’t heard of the Aussie Flashpacker, it’s a personal travel blog by Aussie girl Simone and an English guy Dan. They write about their travels and exploits and have travelled the world extensively. We came across each others websites via the wonderful world of twitter and this is their account of a Winters Hike up Mount ...
(above youtube video all taken on private land) North Wales – the very epitome of wild, adventurous terrain. Roads that lead off into harsh rugged landscapes, leaving the towns and cities behind, giving the impression that few have travelled there before. There are many ways of exploring this isolated landscape, but none quite so civilised as green laning. Green lanes ...
What is Geocaching? “Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.” Source: geocaching.com There are two geocaches at the summit of Moel Famau, making the walk to the top even more worthwhile. At the time of ...
Two weekends of epic riding on the bounce. How lucky am I? Having booked onto Revolution a month in advance, you can probably guess I was quite excited in the week upcoming to the 25th October. It was going to be a day of riding bikes with a group of awesome and super outgoing female shredders. Not only this, my ...