A blog mostly written by Lynsey and sometimes read by Josh (who is usually in the mountains) that aims to document our life in rural North Wales, the homebase for Crashpad Lodges. Here you will find everything from how we manage and run our off-grid accommodation business, our journey to become sustainable, crafting new interior items to weathering the weather!
Each article is around 7 minutes long, just enough time for a panad and a read
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"He was probably the world’s greatest rock climber”. An Ode to Joe Brown.
Browsing the web one-night last week I came across a brilliant black and white image of a man sitting on an outcrop of rock. Wearing two boiled wool hats, a marvelously well-worn twill overhead jacket, plus fours with wool socks pulled up underneath. Wearing proper leather walking boots, around his neck was a long piece of knotted rope with a carabiner which he was holding in one hand and a finished cigarette in the other looking into the distance.
As I looked at the image, Josh walked into my office with a cup of tea for me, looked at my screen and said ‘oh Joe Brown, he was an amazing climber, lived in the village. He passed only last month’. I had never heard of Joe Brown but I had heard of Joe Brown’s shop in Llanberis where we live.