Brave Dave

Psssst! Did you hear? Some complete mad lad has only gone and hidden a thousand pounds in cold, hard cash on Snowdon! The treasure trove is somewhere along the Pyg Track and was put there back in January 2025! Thousands of people must have walked pas...

A group of us head up to Scotland for a long weekend of multi-night camping in the Cairngorms. The weather was... a mixed bag, but ultimately there was rain. A lot of rain. Still, we had a day and night of great weather and saw some superb views, so ...

Even if you have support and the conditions are perfect, the Welsh 3000s is a very tough challenge. I have made a number of attempts at completing the 3000s completely on my own, two of which I (naively) attempted to run the route. The main problem w...

Since first discovering it in July 2018, my favourite scramble by far has been Bryant's Gully, on the side of Glyder Fawr, facing Crib Goch. It is an epic climb, due to its massive size (800 meters high with at least 500 meters of actual scrambling) ...

I decided to tick off a load of high grade scrambles all in one day. I had previously only done one Grade 3, and other than some brief descriptions in my guidebook I really didn't know what to expect. If you don't know, for a scramble to be Grade 3 i...

Sometimes when I'm in Snowdonia and I have a spare afternoon or evening I like to pick a peak and run up and down it as fast as I can, just to see how quickly I can do it. I love leading clients up and over the mountains but obviously those hikes are...

If you're going to attempt the Welsh 3000s you may as well start it off with a sunrise, perfect views and having the summit to yourself.

I've never been up on Crib Goch before when it has been so windy and yet sunny at the same time. Not only that but we had the clouds blasting right at us which looked really cool and at times quite surreal. Loads of fun! We set off expecting wind, ra...

When out and about on the mountains I often have my GoPro around my neck; to film little bits and pieces, or just in case something happens. And after having crossed Crib Goch ridge on a windy, misty March afternoon something most definitely happened...

Myself and a client set out to do the Welsh 3000s. As we set off up Snowdon in the dark we knew that it was going to be windy up there but hey, a little bit of a breeze wasn't going to stop us, right? Well after being blown off our feet several times...

I'd wanted to try a grade 3 scramble for a while, to see what one is actually like. Every time I've been up Crib Goch I've looked over at the Clogwyn Y Person Arete and figured that I'd have to climb it at some point. So I did. And Danny did as well....

Myself, JD and Tristan were originally going to go to Scotland for a few days but the weather report sounded brutal, so we opted for the Lake District instead where the weather report was still a bit brutal but at least it wasn't as far to drive. Our...

After many months away from the mountains I finally got back over to Snowdonia and enjoyed a superb day in the sunshine, powering up Tryfan, scrambling Bristly Ridge for the first time and meeting lots of people along the way.

Myself, JD and Tristan did another Scottish hike and wild camp, this time in the Cairngorms rather than the usual Highlands. It was just a quick one-nighter around a 20 mile route. Given that it was November we were extremely lucky with the weather (...

Just 4 weeks after our last attempt at the Welsh 3000s was ruined by me being an idiot and not eating enough food the day before Jonathan and I returned with the absolute intention of smashing this 24 hour, 15 Peak challenge once and for all. The sun...

Due to not having attempted the Welsh 3000s for several years I'd forgotten about how important it is to eat a lot of food in the days leading up to it which resulted in a total loss of energy on our way up Elidir Fawr (which is a shitty mountain at ...