Winter skills courses and guided winter hillwalking
2010 UK WInter season is over. Please check back next year for 2011
Winter brings additional challenges to the mountain environment. Snow, ice and extremes of weather can dramatically increase the dangers of mountainous areas, but for those who wish to face these challenges the experience can be fantastic.
The winter skills courses and guiding sessions that we offer will help prepare and equip you with the skills required for winter in the mountains. Winter hill walking and winter skills courses can be arranged, from one day introduction or refresher courses to more in depth multi-day courses to help prepare you for more serious winter mountaineering challenges.
Such courses will cover:
- Use of equipment such as ice axe and crampons
- Winter navigation
- Avalanche awareness
- Interpreting weather forecasts
- Safe movement through the winter mountain environment and much more.
Courses will run with fully qualified instructors and a small group size so that you can gain the most from the experience.
Throughout the winter Lupine Adventure have instructors based in both Snowdonia, North Wales and the Glen Coe / Fort William / Ben Nevis area of the west coast of Scotland. If you would like a course in another mountainous area of the UK then this can probably be arranged. Please get in contact to let us know your requirements.
Dates and locations
1 December 2009 - 10 January 2010 - Snowdonia, North Wales.
11 January 2010 - 30 January 2010 - Fort William, Scotland.
1 February 2010 onwards - Snowdonia, North Wales.
We will generally run courses from our base in Snowdonia, North Wales but between the11th and 30th January Lupine Adventure will be setting up a base in Ballachulish on the west coast of Scotland. This will give us good access to a range of mountainous areas including Glen Coe and Ben Nevis. If you are interested in booking dates within this period then please get in touch.
Courses will require a minimum of 2 clients to run, so if you have friends that you regularly go hill walking or mountaineering with why not see if they fancy coming along? If not then please get in touch with your available dates and we'll try and match you up with others who are after the same thing.
Prices will be around £75 per person, per day, though discounts are available for those booking with larger groups or for multi-day courses.
Please take a look at the kit list, if you do not have all the required equipment then please let us know as soon as possible as you may be able to borrow from our stores.
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