Group Winter Skills Weekends

This Winter, we’re delighted to be offering some Group Winter Skills Courses that small groups or individuals can book onto. These 2 day Winter Skills Courses will be based out of Fort William, in the stunning West Highlands, giving us access to the mountains of Glencoe, the Nevis Range and Mamores.  

If you already enjoy walking in the mountains in Summer but want to build up your confidence to head out in Winter, these courses are just for you. You’ll get to have fun with like minded people under friendly and relaxed instruction from our experienced Mountain Professionals.

On day 1, we’ll meet up and run through some introductions before kicking things off. We’ll look at the following:

• Planning a day out in Winter and Avalanche Awareness using the ‘Be Avalanche Aware‘ Process. This includes weather forecast and avalanche forecast interpretation and how to plan a day out in the Winter Mountains.

• We’ll look at what Winter Clothing and Equipment to take for a day out. You’ll get some tops tips from your Winter Mountain Professional, gained from their years of experience.

• Movement on snow and ice:

The aim of this part of the day is to give you plenty of tools for your ‘winter tool box’ that will allow you to move well and confidently over the various ground you’ll come across when hill walking in winter covering the following:-

• Use of the Winter boot as a tool- kicking steps

• Using an Ice Axe- including self arrest and self belay

• Use of Crampons- French/Flat Footing, Front Pointing, Hybrid

Once back down, we’ll come up with a plan together for Day 2 before giving you time to relax, eat, and chill out before our next day.

For Day 2, our aim is to put the skills learned during our first day out into context by going for a winter hill walk together

Route choice, when and where to put crampons on, get your ice axe out and navigation are all part and parcel of a Winter day out and as much as possible, we’ll get you out there making these decisions whilst having an experienced Mountain Professional to coach you through this process.

As much as it’s great to learn new skills, we believe time in the mountains should be fun and enjoyable too- all of our Leaders and Instructors have a real passion for spending time with people in the mountains and we aim to create an inclusive and supportive environment on all of our group courses.

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