The Challenge At Outward Bound

This week I was working at Outward Bound in Scotland and the course was 'The Challenge'.. The post year 11 students were from Manchester this week and we definitely had a lot to stretch them with this week. We started with climbing, abseiling and scrambling in Glen Nevis, above.

On the rock day I worked with John Cuthbertson from Snowgoose Mountain Centre. John also used to work at Outward Bound. He also used to work on Gower in South Wales, so we talked about our favourite sea cliff climbs.

Steall Falls on day 1 of our 2 day expedition.

The southern side of Ben Nevis. Carn Dearg nearly visible in the swirling mist on the left.

On day 1 of our exped we crossed the wire bridge over the 'Water of Nevis'. Two winters ago this river was frozen (when we were all climbing Steall Falls) and I walked across.

Paul, the senior mentor for the team, was the last to cross.

Binnein Beag visible on the southern side of Glen Nevis, as we were on our ascent of Meall Cumhann on the northern side - With Ben Nevis further north of us.

After the exped, we got back to the centre and went on our water day which was gorge walking in the Dubh Lighe near Glenfinnan. An awesome day of gorge walking with jumps, slides and sumps! I even got to practice my forward flips and backflips (not perfected yet - still turns into a face plant!).

So a great week comes to an end and they move onto their next adventure in week 2 of 'The Challenge'. Next week I hope to be have an adventure somewhere too... I'll probably be caving in Porth yr Ogof, and climbing in Morlais Quarry!