Today, group 2 went climing and abseiling in the afternoon. Previous to that we had gone canoeing and it was LOADS of fun (see video on twitter!)

After lunch they had gone to to the dry store outside with their instructors-Steve and Kenny and Mr. Henderson to get their waterproofs, some ropes and other tools. They headed to the mini-bus to set off on the 10 minute journey. Once they had arrived at the hill they walked up a short path, then went up a grassy verge to the rock. Kenny and the pupils got ready by putting on their harnesses and helmets. At this time Steve had walked up the back path to the top of the rock that they would be climbing to set up the ropes and make sure that they were secure.

Now that the harnesses were secure they could start climbing! Jay did a demo climbing up with Katie as the head beeliner. At this point it started to rain! They all got really cold and wet so it made it really hard to grip on to the rocks and they all kept sliding!

Two ropes had been set up to climb, one with the pupils that hadnt been climbing pulling the rope and one where Steve held the rope and you abseiled down yourself. On the second one, one section of it was really smoothe and only ahd a few small holes to put your hand in! About 30 minuutes before they finshed everynse staerded to get very cold and were really tired. A few people were even chittering! It was nearly time for dinner so they had to head back but it was real struggle to take off your helmets because you couldn’t grip on to anything and thier fingers were numb so thry couldnt feel what was happening.

Thankfully, they are all now safe back at Ardmay and are all nice and warm!

By Katie 😃