AMI Workshop
12/06/11 Environment and Navigation As part of its commitment to maintaining high standards AMI requires its members to engage in Continuing Professional Development (CPD). These workshops provide CPD credits. Wales can guarantee interesting weather and this Sunday did not disappoint. Torrential rain ensured that the day would be a challenging one. The rain never let …
Wye Valley
When asked the question, ” what are you and the family doing for the half term break”. I answered, “Going camping in wales with a group a climbing group called Craggers”. Most of them responded, are you mad, it’s freezing, or words similar to that. Even i was thinking, maybe they’re right, i must be …
Gritstone
The spring trip to the peak district was a great opportunity to get out of Brighton and for the uninitiated to get to grips with grit. The outcrops above the village of Hathersage offer a great introduction to climbing outdoors with grades to suit all levels, although the grading can be quite a surprise. The …
Adventure Camp Feedback
“I am a single parent of four children, two girls and two boys aged 12, 10, 9 and 7…there was no sense of hierarchy but a lovely calm community spirit. I was very impressed with how brilliantly Buster interacted with the kids at camp. He organised lots of games for them to play. He was …
Bushcraft Workshop
Standing by a gate in rural Oxfordshire, waiting for one of the instructors to let me into the woodland site, I was already in bushcraft mode, checking out the shaggy ink cap mushrooms at my feet and noticing the subtle change in hue of the leaves above my head, as the trees ease themselves into …
Bushcraft Day
Good grief, as Snoopy might say. What was envisioned as quite a small scale activity ended up with 25 people signed up. We put some people on a waiting list, some people didn’t come (early start, very nice weather?) but then people we didn’t know were coming, turned up, so an attendance of about 20 …
Redhill Climbing Wall
On the 16th of January 2011, my 8 year old son Benji and I went on a Craggers organised trip to the High Sports climbing wall in Redhill. We met at the Brighton Unemployed and Family centre and all travelled together by minibus. There was a good mix of children and adults and it was …
Adventure Camp
Still fresh after all these years. We have been running the Adventure Camps for a long time now but each one is unique. I have been thinking about this recently and wondering why this is. It is the people, or more accurately the human dynamics. It is the way people who have been on previous …
Summer Adventure Camp
It is four in the morning and the wind driven rain makes walking difficult. The last violent gust of wind convinced me that I needed to leave my nice warm sleeping bag and check if any of the other tents have been flattened or if I need to give assistance. I can hardly believe that …
Cairngorms
For the Craggers Scottish winter trip of February 2010 we went to the Loch Morlich youth hostel outside of Aviemore in the Cairngorms National Park, where we have been before but not for at least 3 years, I think. So it was a welcome return to the Cairngorms after a couple of winters in the …
Scotland
Well March seems a long time ago but I can still remember it very clearly. The one I’m reporting on was the training day at Halfway Lochen on Ben Nevis. It was an early Craggers style start for a mixed group of kids and adults. It was described as a short walk up the mountain …
Wales
Let’s see that was way back in June. I remember the weather was extremely kind to us and we managed to get 4 full days of climbing in which is quite rare for that country!! It was an incredibly beautiful campsite and conveniently right next to the bus stop. I’m not used to getting public …
Dorset
Off we went to Famous Five country with lashings and lashings of vegan ginger beer. We left Timmy behind and brought our faithful but not quite so obedient pussy cat – Lucy. We stayed at a lovely little camp site where we could walk across a couple of fields to the coast and find …