Exploring and learning while out on outdoor adventures.
Introduction This is the story of the twelve months between completing my Single Pitch Award (SPA) training in May 1998 and returning for the assessment in May 1999. It draws on my climbing logs, supervision records, diaries and contemporary accounts written by friends. Together they preserve a surprisingly detailed record: not just of what I …
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We set out for Scotland with little more of a plan than to get to the coast and visit castles. I had been looking at castles, coastline and islands: perhaps Bute, perhaps Cumbrae, maybe Culzean, perhaps somewhere farther west. South-west Scotland seemed to offer an appealing concentration of all three without requiring the long haul …
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