Six days at PYB

Plas Y Brenin is a fantastic place with great instructors, Carlo, Tamsin and Paul but the most impressive thing of all was the wonderful spread of food supplied to us. Forgetting the training a regular day consisted of up at 8 for toast and tea followed by a full English (2 sausage, 2 bacon, 2 hash brown, 2 fried eggs and some backed beans) and then some cereal. 9.15 We would look at the weather and decided where we were going to go. 11ish would be mid morning snack provided by pyb in packed lunch form, we would then sporadically snack on the left over till about 2. 5 was the glorious tea and cake time, no matter what we were doing we always made it back for tea and cakes before a de brief and some class room based revision. At 7 diner was served, the started was a home made soup with bread rolls followed by the main course and pudding. To finish the day I would go bouldering with some guys from the group, Alex, Charlie, John, Neil, Ian and Richard. If the weather was nice we went to RAC boulders or if it was bad at pyb’s wall which had a free duke box and a friendly atmosphere. So even before we talk about getting into the hills there was a lot to fit into a day and the work on the hills was invaluable and most of all enjoyable.

The only way is up.

Eddy