[Ed]: I recently found this post I wrote eight years ago. It’s relevant every year and worth a quick read (sadly not good news for fans of Halloween and bonfire night)
It was originally published on 16 October 2010:
We leave for North Wales on Halloween. I’ve already been asked a couple of times about dressing up and “Trick or Treating” and the situation is this:
On the Sunday evening we have a lot to do. On arrival at KMC, you will:
- Have a quick tour of the site
- Settle in to your rooms (which takes about 15 minutes)
- Meet the duty instructor who will introduce you to the routine around KMC
- Eat a meal
- Collect lots of specialist equipment for your personal use during the week.
After all that (at around 8:00pm) we will start our first outdoor activity. This involves walking from KMC to Dolbadarn Castle. The castle isn’t usually haunted but probably will be that night as it’s Halloween. The walk allows you to test some of the equipment issued to you previously so there is no option to wear fancy dress; sorry.
We do pass through the local village of Llanberis on the walk back to KMC but it will be well past Trick or Treat time and, in any case, you really ought to be capable of speaking Welsh to the residents before knocking on their doors (most people living in the village speak Welsh as their first language).
As for fireworks; we can’t have any on site and previous trips have been disappointed by the quality of local displays. They aren’t that local either.
We will will look into visiting a public display but don’t hold your breath.
What time do we return from the activity? Do we do activties every night? ( I hope so)
About 9:30pm back at the Centre.
Everyone is involved in outdoor activities every night (except one night when they may choose to go to the climbing wall).
On Friday we have a lot of packing and tidying to do which takes most of the evening.
but what if we want to sleep and wat times du we have to wake up m4eanin the earliest?
Don’t worry, you will get plenty of sleep and you will sleep well. There will be times when you are tired but that is to be expected when you are on an outdoor activities trip for a week.
You will get up between 7:15am (if on breakfast duty) and 7:30am.
Is the climbing wall the beacon wall?
Yes Dominic
Beacon Climbing Centre
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If you want to know exactly where the Kent Mountain Centre is, see here.
Where is Dolbadarn Castle and how long will it take to get there?
It doesn’t take long to walk there; it’s less than a mile away.
See here (scroll down in the left hand column and click Dolbadarn Castle).
Will we be going to lion rock to do some climbing?
Unlikely Dominic. If the weather’s good enough to climb outdoors we will be off up a mountain instead.
Ok, i have found out how to say Glyder Fawr and Glyder Fach.
do we have to walk everywhere coz by the end of this trip my legs will be no more
You don’t have to walk everywhere. Sometimes you will walk no more than half a mile in a whole day. Other days you might walk a few miles.
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