2014 - What a Cracker!

     I have been meaning to write a post reflecting on my year at some point this month, but it wasn't until I started looking back through photographs that I have realised what an amazing year I have had. It has been an incredibly busy year for me in all aspects of my life: going self employed, moving house, completing some qualifications and of course lots of time spent outdoors. It has been a struggle trying to select photos to use to share and portray my year without reams of text, but I guess here it goes...

A few days visiting Tom + Emily in Torridon with some absolutely wild weather, before heading across to the Cairngorms

Piers walking into Coire an t'Sneachda in February

A weekend of scrambling in early March on some of Snowdonia's finest scrambles

Bluebird day at Pot Scar, Yorkshire Dales in March. Great trad limestone crag.

I thought my climbing year was over here and it was only April. No climbing for 2 months after popping a finger at Armathwaite.

Claire and Piers following up Hope, Idwal Slabs in June. I had just finished my post at Low Mill Outdoor Centre and was about to spend the whole summer climbing in preparation for my MIA assessment.

Finn and James following up Ardus on a teaching day at Shepherds, Borrowdale

Climbing some classic routes with good friends in the sunshine through July and August. 3 happy fellas chilling above the sea

Lakeland classics were climbed through the dry July. Me climbing the penultimate pitch of Eagle Front (VS, 4c), Eagle Crag, Buttermere

An Alps trip in August. Wild weather on the summit of the Dent du Geant

Team send of the Aiguille du Pouce. Ben, Kirsty, Olly + Piers.

Moving house in October to the heart of the Dales. My new playground. Ingleborough from the lane. 

The view from the garden, Pen-y-ghent in the distance

Brocken Spectres on the only good weather day of my MIA assessment at Plas-y-Brenin in Snowdonia

I am incredibly proud of being a member of AMI after passing my MIA

A time to enjoy some bouldering and some cracking gritstone days, but now winter is upon us its all about Scotland!

     Winter is now upon us and I am making my first trip up to Scotland in a few days time, whilst fitting in training, rock and work between trips for the next few months. This set of pictures provides me with some many memories and I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to spend so much time in the outdoors. I am now looking forward into next year and what it will bring, hopefully it will provide as many adventures the past year.