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28th August 2008
Jessica is off to Honduras next week for 6 months, teaching English, and perhaps some Welsh, in schools and orphanages. Ben returns to college for his final year. So it should be noticeably quieter around here! Our autumn weekends have filled quite rapidly and we have added an overflow Welsh 3000's weekend on the 19-22nd September. |
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19th November 2007
The autumn weather has been reasonable compared to that earlier in the summer. The climbers have had some good weather and those on the Welsh 3000's have all made successful rounds. Ian had an enjoyable summer in the alps with a week rock climbing in the Dolomites followed by ascents of Dent Blanche, Piz Badile, Weissmise with David and Bishorn with Mandy after walking some of the walkers Haute route. Mandy has been busy working for the tourist board as well as various guiding assignments, and is currently enjoying a New York shopping trip with Jessica. Whilst I am at home renovating the bathroom, which hopefully will be ready in time for the winter season. Next years dates and prices are now on the site and hopefully we will be able to get the brochure printed in the following few weeks. We have just had our first snowfall of the winter, so I expect a few more winter bookings will be coming in. I will be going up to Scotland again next March for a few weeks, most dates are now booked but there are a couple of spaces still.
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18th July 2007I suppose it's a good sign if we have been too busy to update this page. We seem to have been full on for the last few months, a browse through our recent photo gallery will give you a flavour of what we have been up to. On a personal level Mandy and I have been extending our fell running this
year, It was nice to have a visit from Nicole, a trek assistant from a few years back who is enjoying her new life down under, and as you can see from the photo in our new equipment store has her hands full with a young family. I also a summer trip away with David another old assistant to compete a long term ambition of the Cuillen traverse. I say summer but the snow and rain didn't exactly ease our progress! Ben is settling well in Preston after his first year at university doing computer games design, and Jessica is off to Japan in a couple of weeks sandwiched between Wakestock and the Leeds festival. We have a few weeks coming up in the Alps and then hope to return to find the weather has improved. |
22nd January 2007
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5th November 2006Another season draws to a close and thoughts turn to next year with the publication of our 2007 winter brochure and upload of preliminary dates and prices for summer 2007. Photographs from this years courses are now uploaded to a Hightrek Flickr account so that they can be easily downloaded by clients. We hope to add past years when we have a spare moment. An interactive map of Snowdon has now been added to the site which hopefully people will find entertaining. |
26th September 2006
If you remember running the gauntlet of dripping Gortex to get to the shower, you'll be pleased to know we've now got a purpose built drying room. There's also a splendid lecture room and a super new walk-in shower and toilet. Upstairs we've a new equipment store "A place for everything and everything in its place" - we'll see if it remains like that! There's also a huge new bedroom so we can free up some bedroom space in the house. There's loads of room for two twin beds that will zip together for a luxurious super king-size. Check out the pictures.
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5th June 2006 High Trek 20th Anniversary
Sunday dawned fine and dry yet again so a mass ascent of the Craig yr
Ysfa pinnacle followed by a swim in the stream was organised. Emma is
expecting her second so was restricted to the party on the Friday. Ursula and
family also paid us a visit at the hut. Jude ,Jon and Graham unfortunately
couldn't make it, and Chris we haven't been able to contact( so if your
reading this drop us a line).
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30th March 2006
Our spring and summer weekends are filling up fast. Surprisingly we still have a few places left at Easter for our mountain walking break remember we offer a 5% discount to previous customers and those they recommend. |
6th October 20052005 will go on record as our most successful year to
date and so many of you have been asking us about 2006 dates and prices that
we have actually grabbed enough time in the office to put them on the website
thereby creating another record the earliest we have ever had the
whole year organised (Winter dates have been on there for a while, and are
filling up)! Price Freeze Offer
and to reward all of you
who are organised enough to book early ---for bookings for made before end
November we will hold 2005 prices.
Work has now started on the Tal y Waen outbuildings which are being converted into a lecture room drying room and equipment store which we hope to have up and running for next year |
6th July 2005
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21st February 2005
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9th June 2004
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10th January 2004.jpg) Its
good to get back on the hill after weeks of rebuilding our office. The
new year arrived with cold weather and plenty of snow which has been unfortunately
dwindling over the last week.
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22nd
December 2008
30th
October 2008
Our
summer break is coming to an end and we are raring to go with the autumn
season. We have been out enjoying the alps over the last month. Ian completed
long standing ambitions of the Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses. Whilst Mandy
ascended the Strahlhorn after a 3 day backpack including the Dents du Midi.
pictures of our trip can be found 
26th
June 2008
Our
Autumn season finished a couple of weeks ago. We took advantage of a free
weekend to enter this years OMM in the Scottish Lowther hills, which was
enjoyable despite gales and rain on the overnight camp.
with a 3 day trip backpack around the Bob Graham circuit in the Lakes, in the Easter
sunshine. A few days along the Northern Offa's Dyke in the more recent deluge.
I competed in the Welsh 1000 metre race and Mandy is entered in the
upcoming Snowdon race, which is due to be televised by S4C.
Winter
has finally arrived with a good dump of snow on the mountains and lowering
temperatures forecast for the rest of the week. Our next couple of Winter
Weekends are fully booked but we do still have a few places remaining for the
end of February and beginning of March. So if your interested in learning how
to use those ice axe and crampons you received for Christmas, or you just want
to breathe in some of that fresh winter mountain air then you will find
details 
After
a year of careful construction work by our friendly builders - Sturrs &
Sons of Bethesda if anyone local wants good builders - our stables conversion
is complete! It looks gorgeous as the masons have reused the original building
stone and inside there's a floor of local slate and oak doors, windows and
staircase.
We
celebrated High Trek's 20th Anniversary over this last weekend. All our old
trek assistants were invited for 2 days of fun and mountain frolics.
included
spoons and magic finger!
Dave and family are emigrating to New Zealand in August so we wish them good
luck in there new venture and hope we can pay them a visit some time.
Our
winter season is over, Ian has just returned from his annual trip to Scotland,
thereby missing some of the best winter conditions in Wales for a number of
years. Mandy is currently away enjoying a holiday in Crete with her
mother. 
To
update on family news Jessica (now 15) is at the moment travelling around
Australia for over a month with the Girl Guide World Friendship train
thanks to all who bought her craft work and contributed. 
14th
October 2004
A
very busy few months and a computer failure have meant no update for quite a
while. 
25th February
2004| Ps If any of you have any suggestions for the site drop us a line |