{"id":3225,"date":"2015-11-04T21:15:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2015-11-12T07:09:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T07:09:26","slug":"slippery-cliffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/04\/11\/2015\/slippery-cliffs","title":{"rendered":"Slippery Cliffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3228\" src=\"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PB040067-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PB040067-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PB040067.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The day started with a nice sausage, eggy bread and spaghetti. This was shortly followed by a meeting in the unisex common room in which the groups were told to go to their instructors and find out what the activities for the day were.\u00a0 Mike (our instructor) gave us the opportunity to either climb Snowdon or go Sea Cliff Traversing in Anglesey.\u00a0 The choice was easy for everybody as we climbed the mountains &#8216;Cnicht&#8217; on Monday and &#8216;Tryfan&#8217; on Tuesday. We arrived in Cable Bay, put on our waterproofs, buoyancy aids and harnesses.<\/p>\n<p>We then set off to climb the interior of the surface that lay there before us. We then spent the remainder of the next few hours traversing through trickling waterfalls, slippery rocks and sharp objects which stood in our way. We carried on scrambling until we came to a fairly large gap in the rock called a Tyrolean traverse which the only way to cross was by a rope which we attached our &#8220;cow tails&#8221; and set off for the cliffs.\u00a0 Roughly 20 minutes of Traversing later, a pupil tripped roughly three metres down a rock on the side of a near vertical cliff.\u00a0\u00a0 The first time we pulled ourselves along the rope to the other side normally, however the second time around Mike let the group try and do a backflip whilst still attached to the ropes. \u00a0Mike then noticed another group of Dane Court students with their instructors Jez and Karl also traversing on another cliff face around the corner.\u00a0 We then attempted their rope course which was tricky at first but as we gradually got used to it as time passed.<\/p>\n<p>For the final activity we were allowed to plunge ourselves into the ice chilling temperatures of the Irish Sea which lay there before the rocks.\u00a0 As some of the students ran in their dry clothing to the minibus others squelched in their drenched clothes.\u00a0 Some students got changed into dry clothing and we then had lunch a little late and set off home for the Kent Mountain Centre.<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0Spencer Longley, Elizabeth Gibbons<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\r\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\r\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\r\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\r\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t<\/style>\r\n\t\t<!-- see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php -->\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3225 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail gallery1'><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\/\/ <![CDATA[\r\n\tjQuery(document).ready(function () {\r\n\t\tjQuery(\".gallery1 a\").attr(\"rel\",\"gallery1\");\t\r\n\t\tjQuery('a[rel=\"gallery1\"]').colorbox({maxWidth:\"95%\", maxHeight:\"95%\",title: function(){ return jQuery(this).children().attr(\"alt\"); }, });\r\n\t});\r\n\/\/ ]]>\r\n<\/script>\n<dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PB040059.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PB040059-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PB040063.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PB040063-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PB040067.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PB040067-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day started with a nice sausage, eggy bread and spaghetti. 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