We offer a wide range of great value mountain skills courses and climbing coaching workshops, held in locations across Scotland. We also organise talks, lectures and other events during the year to help you grow your knowledge and meet other hill walkers, climbers and mountaineers. Check out the full schedule below and click for more information, booking details and prices.
Please note: We indicate whether courses are fully booked below, but please be aware this is not an automatic update, so the situation may change overnight.
Waiting lists
We operate a waiting list for most events to fill spaces that become available in case of cancellations. Please add your details to the waiting list for any courses and dates that are fully booked that you are interested in and we will be in touch with everyone on the list if any places become available.
Navigation is an essential skill for anyone who intends going into the Scottish hills and mountains. At any time of year low cloud can mean poor visibility, making navigation more challenging. By heading out into the darkness we can practice the techniques required to deal with these conditions and learn to confidently navigate off the hill if caught out by short daylight hours over the winter.
What you'll learn
Venue: Dumyat
Mountaineering Scotland Winter Weather Skills Course in association with MWIS, exclusively for our members. This one day mountain winter weather workshop is designed for members to help discover the science behind the forecasts and learn how to better plan your winter mountain adventures.
What you'll learn
Venue: Mountaineering Scotland HQ, Perth
Our winter skills courses offer an opportunity to help improve your skills and confidence for winter walking and mountaineering in Scotland, with our team of qualified and experienced instructors.
This one-day course is aimed at people who already enjoy walking in the Scottish hills in summer and winter, and wish to improve their competency and learn the necessary skills to enjoy winter in the hills safety.
What you'll learn
Our winter skills courses cover the essential skills of hill walking in winter including:
Area: Cairngorms
Meeting Place: Tiso Aviemore Outdoor Experience Store, Unit 1, Aviemore Retail Park, Santa Claus Drive Aviemore, PH22 1RH
Navigation takes on an extra dimension in winter, when snow, weather and limited daylight hours all add different challenges to finding your way around the mountains in safety. This course is designed to equip you to face up to these challenges with confidence.
What you'll learn
Nine hours of intensive winter navigation training with particular consideration to avoidance of avalanche-prone slopes and cornice features.
Techniques will include
Area: Cairngorms
Meeting Place: Tiso Aviemore Outdoor Experience Store, Unit 1, Aviemore Retail Park, Santa Claus Drive Aviemore, PH22 1RH
Our winter skills courses offer an opportunity to help improve your skills and confidence for winter walking and mountaineering in Scotland, with our team of qualified and experienced instructors.
This two-day course is aimed at people who already enjoy walking in the Scottish hills in summer and winter, and wish to improve their competency and learn the necessary skills to enjoy winter in the hills safety.
What you'll learn
Our winter skills courses cover the essential skills of hill walking in winter including:
Area: Cairngorms
Meeting Place: Mill Cottage, Feshiebridge, Kincraig, PH21 1NF
Our winter skills courses offer an opportunity to help improve your skills and confidence for winter walking and mountaineering in Scotland, with our team of qualified and experienced instructors.
This two-day non residential course is aimed at people who already enjoy walking in the Scottish hills in summer and winter, and wish to improve their competency and learn the necessary skills to enjoy winter in the hills safety.
What you'll learn
Our winter skills courses cover the essential skills of hill walking in winter including:
Area: Fort William
Meeting Place: Lochaber Mountain Rescue Base, St Clement, Fort William, PH34 4EN
The avalanche awareness courses are designed for proficient winter hill walkers and mountaineers wishing to increase their knowledge of snow conditions and avalanche risk, to learn which areas to avoid and to improve their understanding of reports and forecasts. Participants must have attended a winter skills course with Mountaineering Scotland or another provider prior to signing up for the avalanche course.
What you'll learn
Each course will consist of an indoor introduction to avalanche theory followed by a practical session on the hill. The courses are staffed on a 1:6 ratio with highly experienced Winter Mountaineering & Climbing Instructors.
Topics covered:
Area: Cairngorms
Meeting Place: Tiso Aviemore Outdoor Experience Store, Unit 1, Aviemore Retail Park, Santa Claus Drive Aviemore, PH22 1RH
Our winter skills courses offer an opportunity to help improve your skills and confidence for winter walking and mountaineering in Scotland, with our team of qualified and experienced instructors.
This two-day course is aimed at people who already enjoy walking in the Scottish hills in summer and winter, and wish to improve their competency and learn the necessary skills to enjoy winter in the hills safety.
What you'll learn
Our winter skills courses cover the essential skills of hill walking in winter including:
Area: Cairngorms
Meeting Place: Mill Cottage, Feshiebridge, Kincraig, PH21 1NF
The avalanche awareness courses are designed for proficient winter hill walkers and mountaineers wishing to increase their knowledge of snow conditions and avalanche risk, to learn which areas to avoid and to improve their understanding of reports and forecasts. Participants must have attended a winter skills course with Mountaineering Scotland or another provider prior to signing up for the avalanche course.
What you'll learn
Each course will consist of an indoor introduction to avalanche theory followed by a practical session on the hill. The courses are staffed on a 1:6 ratio with highly experienced Winter Mountaineering & Climbing Instructors.
Topics covered:
Area: Cairngorms
Meeting Place: Tiso Aviemore Outdoor Experience Store, Unit 1, Aviemore Retail Park, Santa Claus Drive Aviemore, PH22 1RH
Our winter skills courses offer an opportunity to help improve your skills and confidence for winter walking and mountaineering in Scotland, with our team of qualified and experienced instructors.
This two-day course is aimed at people who already enjoy walking in the Scottish hills in summer and winter, and wish to improve their competency and learn the necessary skills to enjoy winter in the hills safety.
What you'll learn
Our winter skills courses cover the essential skills of hill walking in winter including:
Area: Glencoe
Meeting Place: Alex MacIntyre Hut, North Ballachulish
Our winter skills courses offer an opportunity to help improve your skills and confidence for winter walking and mountaineering in Scotland, with our team of qualified and experienced instructors.
This two-day course is aimed at people who already enjoy walking in the Scottish hills in summer and winter, and wish to improve their competency and learn the necessary skills to enjoy winter in the hills safety.
What you'll learn
Our winter skills courses cover the essential skills of hill walking in winter including:
Area: Cairngorms
Meeting Place: Mill Cottage, Feshiebridge, Kincraig, PH21 1NF
Navigation takes on an extra dimension in winter, when snow, weather and limited daylight hours all add different challenges to finding your way around the mountains in safety. This course is designed to equip you to face up to these challenges with confidence.
What you'll learn
Nine hours of intensive winter navigation training with particular consideration to avoidance of avalanche-prone slopes and cornice features.
Techniques will include
Area: Cairngorms
Meeting Place: Tiso Aviemore Outdoor Experience Store, Unit 1, Aviemore Retail Park, Santa Claus Drive Aviemore, PH22 1RH
Our winter skills courses offer an opportunity to help improve your skills and confidence for winter walking and mountaineering in Scotland, with our team of qualified and experienced instructors.
This one-day course aimed at people who already enjoy walking in the Scottish hills in summer and winter, and wish to improve their competency and learn the necessary skills to enjoy winter in the hills safety.
What you'll learn
Our winter skills courses cover the essential skills of hill walking in winter including:
Area: Glencoe
Meeting Place: Glencoe Mountain Centre, White Corries, Ballachulish PH49 4HZ
Our winter skills courses offer an opportunity to help improve your skills and confidence for winter walking and mountaineering in Scotland, with our team of qualified and experienced instructors.
This two-day course is aimed at people who already enjoy walking in the Scottish hills in summer and winter, and wish to improve their competency and learn the necessary skills to enjoy winter in the hills safety.
What you'll learn
Our winter skills courses cover the essential skills of hill walking in winter including:
Area: Glencoe
Meeting Place: Alex MacIntyre Hut, North Ballachulish
The Scottish Winter Climbing Meet has been a highlight on the international climbing calendar for over 25 years and has attracted climbers from across the world eager to sample the unique Scottish winter experience. The meet has been running since 1997 and was last held in 2023. Overseas guests are paired up with experienced UK-based hosts - an excellent formula that has proved to be very successful. In return for sharing their local knowledge and expertise, UK climbers gain a wider perspective by climbing with their international visitors.
Applications to take part will open in autumn 2024.
The meet is hosted by the Mountaineering Scotland, the BMC, the Alpine Club and the Scottish Mountaineering Club.
Our winter skills courses offer an opportunity to help improve your skills and confidence for winter walking and mountaineering in Scotland, with our team of qualified and experienced instructors.
This two-day course is aimed at people who already enjoy walking in the Scottish hills in summer and winter, and wish to improve their competency and learn the necessary skills to enjoy winter in the hills safety.
What you'll learn
Our winter skills courses cover the essential skills of hill walking in winter including:
Area: Cairngorms
Meeting Place: Mill Cottage, Feshiebridge, Kincraig, PH21 1NF
Our winter skills courses offer an opportunity to help improve your skills and confidence for winter walking and mountaineering in Scotland, with our team of qualified and experienced instructors.
This two-day course is aimed at people who already enjoy walking in the Scottish hills in summer and winter, and wish to improve their competency and learn the necessary skills to enjoy winter in the hills safety.
What you'll learn
Our winter skills courses cover the essential skills of hill walking in winter including:
Area: Glencoe
Meeting Place: Alex MacIntyre Hut, North Ballachulish
This two-day course is aimed at members of snowsports touring clubs affiliated to Mountaineering Scotland, and who either aspire to, or are already taking the lead role on club trips.
This course is suitable for snowsports tourers who have a good level of hill and ski fitness and who are confident on moderate slopes off-piste. Moderate slopes would equate to a red run and the course will involve skinning up onto the Cairngorm Plateau. (a minimum ascent of 600m)
What you'll learn
The two-day course will run on a maximum of 1:6 ratio and, weather and conditions permitting, will cover the following aspects of snow sports touring:
Area: Cairngorms
Meeting Place: Mill Cottage, Feshiebridge, Kincraig, PH21 1NF