Courses and events calendar

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.


February 2025

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:

  • Use of ice axe and crampons
  • Ice axe self- arrest
  • Navigation
  • Winter safety
  • Avalanche avoidance 
  • What to do in an emergency and more

Area: Glencoe

Meeting Place: Glencoe Mountain Centre, White Corries, Ballachulish PH49 4HZ

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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:

  • Use of ice axe and crampons
  • Ice axe self- arrest
  • Navigation
  • Winter safety
  • Avalanche avoidance 
  • What to do in an emergency and more

Area: Glencoe 

Meeting Place: Alex MacIntyre Hut, North Ballachulish

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What can I expect?

Appreciating wildlife is an important part of our time spent in the hills. When we learn to read the tracks and signs of mammals, birds, amphibians, insects and more, a whole world opens up. Whether we find footprints, feathers, droppings, feeding remains or other clues, we discover what wildlife has been around, what they have been up to, and how they fit into the montane ecosystem.

Join naturalist and certified tracker Dan Puplett for an online presentation in which we will look at a range of tracks and signs you might find in the hills, followed by a Q&A session. 

We will also explore how recording the tracks and signs we see can help us become citizen scientists, supporting the conservation of our fantastic upland wildlife.

How to attend: online Zoom workshop 

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Photo by Dan Pulpett

March 2025

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.

Find out more

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:

  • Use of ice axe and crampons
  • Ice axe self- arrest
  • Navigation
  • Winter safety
  • Avalanche avoidance 
  • What to do in an emergency and more

Area: Cairngorms 

Meeting Place: Mill Cottage, Feshiebridge, Kincraig, PH21 1NF

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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:

  • Use of ice axe and crampons
  • Ice axe self- arrest
  • Navigation
  • Winter safety
  • Avalanche avoidance 
  • What to do in an emergency and more

Area: Glencoe 

Meeting Place: Alex MacIntyre Hut, North Ballachulish

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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:

  • Personal skiing and skinning skills
  • Leadership skills Navigation - map and compass and GPS
  • Route choice/weather forecast interpretation
  • Avalanche awareness
  • Emergency procedures

Area: Cairngorms

Meeting Place: Mill Cottage, Feshiebridge, Kincraig, PH21 1NF

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April 2025

A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Arrochar 

Meeting Place: Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team Base, Arrochar, G83 7AZ

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A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Arrochar 

Meeting Place: Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team Base, Arrochar, G83 7AZ

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A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Arrochar 

Meeting Place: Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team Base, Arrochar, G83 7AZ

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This one-day course is designed to progress your outdoor climbing and teach you about how to effectively move on rock, protect yourself and take that first step to becoming an independent outdoor climber.

What you'll learn

  • Recap of the basics (see Introduction to Rock Climbing)
  • Placing and removing gear
  • Building and equalising belays
  • Abseiling with a prussik
  • Belaying from the top of a route
  • Movement skills coaching

Meeting Place: Rosyth Quarry

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This two-day course is designed as the next step on your journey to becoming a safe and independent Trad Climber. Looking at the skills to be a competent second and looking at what’s involved in lead climbing.

What you'll learn

  • Movement technique on real rock
  • Competent seconding skills
  • Belaying a trad lead
  • Placing and removing traditional gear
  • Setting up belays
  • Setting up retrievable abseils
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Glen Nevis

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Now you can trad climb, let’s make you a pro. Through perfecting ropework skills and gear placements, to making the best decisions and problems solving, it’s time to perfect your Trad Climbing on this one-day course.

What you'll learn

  • Advanced movement technique
  • Lead climbing skills
  • Perfecting traditional gear placements
  • Setting up complex belays
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.
  • Solving common problems

Meeting Place: Glen Nevis

Read more or book now

A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Pentlands

Meeting Place: Craigdon Mountain Sports, The Pentland Outdoor Centre, Edinburgh, EH10 7BJ

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Now you’re a sport climber let’s make you a pro. Learn some advanced technical and movement skills to make your Sport Climbing as safe and efficient as possible on this one-day course.

What you'll learn

  • Advanced Sport Climbing skills
  • Advanced belaying skills
  • Projecting skills
  • Advanced movement coaching
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Benny Beg

A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Pentlands

Meeting Place: Craigdon Mountain Sports, The Pentland Outdoor Centre, Edinburgh, EH10 7BJ

Read more or book now

A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Pentlands

Meeting Place: Craigdon Mountain Sports, The Pentland Outdoor Centre, Edinburgh, EH10 7BJ

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This one-day course is a first step into outdoor rock climbing. Experience outdoor rock climbing with the safety of a Bottom-Rope, learning some new skills that can start you on your outdoor climbing journey.

What you'll learn

  • Fitting harness and helmet
  • Tying into the rope
  • Belaying from below and lowering
  • Abseiling
  • Crag etiquette and use of guidebooks
  • Movement coaching on real rock

Meeting Place: Benny Beg

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May 2025

This one-day course is a first step into outdoor rock climbing. Experience outdoor rock climbing with the safety of a Bottom-Rope, learning some new skills that can start you on your outdoor climbing journey.

What you'll learn

  • Fitting harness and helmet
  • Tying into the rope
  • Belaying from below and lowering
  • Abseiling
  • Crag etiquette and use of guidebooks
  • Movement coaching on real rock

Meeting Place: Kingussie

Read more or book now

This two-day course is designed as the next step on your journey to becoming a safe and independent Trad Climber. Looking at the skills to be a competent second and looking at what’s involved in lead climbing.

What you'll learn

  • Movement technique on real rock
  • Competent seconding skills
  • Belaying a trad lead
  • Placing and removing traditional gear
  • Setting up belays
  • Setting up retrievable abseils
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Rosyth Quarry 

Read more or book now

This one-day course is designed to progress your outdoor climbing and teach you about how to effectively move on rock, protect yourself and take that first step to becoming an independent outdoor climber.

What you'll learn

  • Recap of the basics (see Introduction to Rock Climbing)
  • Placing and removing gear
  • Building and equalising belays
  • Abseiling with a prussik
  • Belaying from the top of a route
  • Movement skills coaching

Meeting Place: Kingussie

Read more or book now

Now you’re a sport climber let’s make you a pro. Learn some advanced technical and movement skills to make your Sport Climbing as safe and efficient as possible on this one-day course.

What you'll learn

  • Advanced Sport Climbing skills
  • Advanced belaying skills
  • Projecting skills
  • Advanced movement coaching
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Comic Crag, Kingussie

Read more or book now

This two-day course is designed as the next step on your journey to becoming a safe and independent Trad Climber. Looking at the skills to be a competent second and looking at what’s involved in lead climbing.

What you'll learn

  • Movement technique on real rock
  • Competent seconding skills
  • Belaying a trad lead
  • Placing and removing traditional gear
  • Setting up belays
  • Setting up retrievable abseils
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Glen Nevis

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Being proficient in the Scottish Mountains in summer conditions is of course much more than just the ability to navigate well - although navigation is one of the  crucial elements of safe travel in the mountains.  These weekend courses go a step further than the basic navigation skills to introduce valuable skills to members who regularly visit the summer mountains and who wish to develop their abilities to become safer and more proficient.

What you'll learn

This weekend course comprises two days of instruction. It will include all of the following aspects to ensure safe and enjoyable days on the hill:

  • Pre-planning with reference to maps, guide books, websites & weather forecasts.
  • What to pack in your rucksack
  • Navigation
  • Route choice
  • How to cope with more difficult terrain such as scree, rocky steps, boulder fields and steep ground.
  • Emergency procedures

Area: Crianlarich

Meeting Place: Ochils Mountaineering Club Hut, Inverardran Cottage, Crianlarich, FK20 8QS

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This one-day course is designed to progress your outdoor climbing and teach you about how to effectively move on rock, protect yourself and take that first step to becoming an independent outdoor climber.

What you'll learn

  • Recap of the basics (see Introduction to Rock Climbing)
  • Placing and removing gear
  • Building and equalising belays
  • Abseiling with a prussik
  • Belaying from the top of a route
  • Movement skills coaching

Meeting Place: Kingussie

Read more or book now

This one-day course is designed to progress your outdoor climbing and teach you about how to effectively move on rock, protect yourself and take that first step to becoming an independent outdoor climber.

What you'll learn

  • Recap of the basics (see Introduction to Rock Climbing)
  • Placing and removing gear
  • Building and equalising belays
  • Abseiling with a prussik
  • Belaying from the top of a route
  • Movement skills coaching

Meeting Place: Rosyth Quarry 

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The course is designed as in introduction to steep mountain and scrambling type terrain for those that want to gain confidence in steep ground and easy scrambles.  This course aims to give you the confidence and skills to start tackling those harder to reach areas, as well as enabling you to know what to do if you end up in that ground by mistake.

What you'll learn

By the end of the day those on the course should:

  • Be able to recognise steep ground on the map and on the ground ahead 
  • Have gained experience of travelling in all directions in steeper mountain terrain
  • Have skills to cope with rough/steep ground and understand ways of overcoming difficulties 

Area: Glencoe

Meeting Place: White Corries Café, Glencoe Mountain Resort   

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The course is designed as in introduction to steep mountain and scrambling type terrain for those that want to gain confidence in steep ground and easy scrambles.  This course aims to give you the confidence and skills to start tackling those harder to reach areas, as well as enabling you to know what to do if you end up in that ground by mistake.

What you'll learn

By the end of the day those on the course should:

  • Be able to recognise steep ground on the map and on the ground ahead 
  • Have gained experience of travelling in all directions in steeper mountain terrain
  • Have skills to cope with rough/steep ground and understand ways of overcoming difficulties 

Area: Glencoe

Meeting Place: White Corries Café, Glencoe Mountain Resort   

Read more or book now

This one-day course is a first step into outdoor rock climbing. Experience outdoor rock climbing with the safety of a Bottom-Rope, learning some new skills that can start you on your outdoor climbing journey.

What you'll learn

  • Fitting harness and helmet
  • Tying into the rope
  • Belaying from below and lowering
  • Abseiling
  • Crag etiquette and use of guidebooks
  • Movement coaching on real rock

Meeting Place: Blackford Quarry 

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This one-day women's course is a first step into outdoor rock climbing. Experience outdoor rock climbing with the safety of a Bottom-Rope, learning some new skills that can start you on your outdoor climbing journey.

What you'll learn

  • Fitting harness and helmet
  • Tying into the rope
  • Belaying from below and lowering
  • Abseiling
  • Crag etiquette and use of guidebooks
  • Movement coaching on real rock

Meeting Place: Kingussie

Read more or book now

Now you can trad climb, let’s make you a pro. Through perfecting ropework skills and gear placements, to making the best decisions and problems solving, it’s time to perfect your Trad Climbing on this one-day course.

What you'll learn

  • Advanced movement technique
  • Lead climbing skills
  • Perfecting traditional gear placements
  • Setting up complex belays
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.
  • Solving common problems

Meeting Place: Glen Nevis

Read more or book now

This one-day course is designed to progress your outdoor climbing and teach you about how to effectively move on rock, protect yourself and take that first step to becoming an independent outdoor climber.

What you'll learn

  • Recap of the basics (see Introduction to Rock Climbing)
  • Placing and removing gear
  • Building and equalising belays
  • Abseiling with a prussik
  • Belaying from the top of a route
  • Movement skills coaching

Meeting Place: Kingussie

Read more or book now

This one-day course is a first step into outdoor rock climbing. Experience outdoor rock climbing with the safety of a Bottom-Rope, learning some new skills that can start you on your outdoor climbing journey.

What you'll learn

  • Fitting harness and helmet
  • Tying into the rope
  • Belaying from below and lowering
  • Abseiling
  • Crag etiquette and use of guidebooks
  • Movement coaching on real rock

Meeting Place: Benny Beg 

Read more or book now

June 2025

Now you can trad climb, let’s make you a pro. Through perfecting ropework skills and gear placements, to making the best decisions and problems solving, it’s time to perfect your Trad Climbing on this one-day course.

What you'll learn

  • Advanced movement technique
  • Lead climbing skills
  • Perfecting traditional gear placements
  • Setting up complex belays
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.
  • Solving common problems

Meeting Place: Rosyth Quarry 

Read more or book now

This one-day course is designed to progress your outdoor climbing and teach you about how to effectively move on rock, protect yourself and take that first step to becoming an independent outdoor climber.

What you'll learn

  • Recap of the basics (see Introduction to Rock Climbing)
  • Placing and removing gear
  • Building and equalising belays
  • Abseiling with a prussik
  • Belaying from the top of a route
  • Movement skills coaching

Meeting Place: Auchinstarry

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A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Fort William 

Meeting Place: Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team Base, Ben Nevis Industrial Estate, Fort William, PH33 6PR

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A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Fort William 

Meeting Place: Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team Base, Ben Nevis Industrial Estate, Fort William, PH33 6PR

Read more or book now

This two-day course is designed as the next step on your journey to becoming a safe and independent Trad Climber. Looking at the skills to be a competent second and looking at what’s involved in lead climbing.

What you'll learn

  • Movement technique on real rock
  • Competent seconding skills
  • Belaying a trad lead
  • Placing and removing traditional gear
  • Setting up belays
  • Setting up retrievable abseils
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Glen Nevis 

Read more or book now

A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Glencoe 

Meeting Place: TBC

Bookings opening soon

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A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Glencoe 

Meeting Place: TBC

Bookings opening soon

Read more or book now

This one-day course is designed to progress your outdoor climbing and teach you about how to effectively move on rock, protect yourself and take that first step to becoming an independent outdoor climber.

What you'll learn

  • Recap of the basics (see Introduction to Rock Climbing)
  • Placing and removing gear
  • Building and equalising belays
  • Abseiling with a prussik
  • Belaying from the top of a route
  • Movement skills coaching

Meeting Place: Rosyth Quarry 

Read more or book now

This one-day course is designed to progress your outdoor climbing and teach you about how to effectively move on rock, protect yourself and take that first step to becoming an independent outdoor climber.

What you'll learn

  • Recap of the basics (see Introduction to Rock Climbing)
  • Placing and removing gear
  • Building and equalising belays
  • Abseiling with a prussik
  • Belaying from the top of a route
  • Movement skills coaching

Meeting Place: Kingussie

Read more or book now

Now you’re a sport climber let’s make you a pro. Learn some advanced technical and movement skills to make your Sport Climbing as safe and efficient as possible on this one-day course.

What you'll learn

  • Advanced Sport Climbing skills
  • Advanced belaying skills
  • Projecting skills
  • Advanced movement coaching
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Benny Beg

Read more or book now

July 2025

This one-day women's course is a first step into outdoor rock climbing. Experience outdoor rock climbing with the safety of a Bottom-Rope, learning some new skills that can start you on your outdoor climbing journey.

What you'll learn

  • Fitting harness and helmet
  • Tying into the rope
  • Belaying from below and lowering
  • Abseiling
  • Crag etiquette and use of guidebooks
  • Movement coaching on real rock

Meeting Place: Kingussie

Read more or book now

This two-day course is designed as the next step on your journey to becoming a safe and independent Trad Climber. Looking at the skills to be a competent second and looking at what’s involved in lead climbing.

What you'll learn

  • Movement technique on real rock
  • Competent seconding skills
  • Belaying a trad lead
  • Placing and removing traditional gear
  • Setting up belays
  • Setting up retrievable abseils
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Rosyth Quarry 

Read more or book now

A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Moffat

Meeting Place: Moffat Mountain Rescue Base, Selkirk Road, DG10 9JU

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A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Moffat

Meeting Place: Moffat Mountain Rescue Base, Selkirk Road, DG10 9JU

Read more or book now

A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Moffat

Meeting Place: Moffat Mountain Rescue Base, Selkirk Road, DG10 9JU

Read more or book now

This two-day course is designed as the next step on your journey to becoming a safe and independent Trad Climber. Looking at the skills to be a competent second and looking at what’s involved in lead climbing.

What you'll learn

  • Movement technique on real rock
  • Competent seconding skills
  • Belaying a trad lead
  • Placing and removing traditional gear
  • Setting up belays
  • Setting up retrievable abseils
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Rosyth Quarry 

Read more or book now

Now you’re a sport climber let’s make you a pro. Learn some advanced technical and movement skills to make your Sport Climbing as safe and efficient as possible on this one-day course.

What you'll learn

  • Advanced Sport Climbing skills
  • Advanced belaying skills
  • Projecting skills
  • Advanced movement coaching
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Comic Crag, Kingussie

Read more or book now

Now you can trad climb, let’s make you a pro. Through perfecting ropework skills and gear placements, to making the best decisions and problems solving, it’s time to perfect your Trad Climbing on this one-day course.

What you'll learn

  • Advanced movement technique
  • Lead climbing skills
  • Perfecting traditional gear placements
  • Setting up complex belays
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.
  • Solving common problems

Meeting Place: Creag Na-heigh

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A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Kingussie

Meeting Place: TBC

Bookings opening soon

Read more or book now

A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Kingussie

Meeting Place: TBC

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This one-day course is designed to take your indoor climbing skills and applying them to outdoor Sport Climbing. Learn the art of Sport Climbing and pick up some skills to help you become an independent sport climber.

What you'll learn

  • Lead belaying
  • Lead sports climbing skills
  • Threading lower offs
  • Movement coaching
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Balgone Heughs

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These two evening courses are designed to progress your outdoor climbing and teach you about how to effectively move on rock, protect yourself and take that first step to becoming an independent outdoor climber.

What you'll learn

  • Recap of the basics (see Introduction to Rock Climbing)
  • Placing and removing gear
  • Building and equalising belays
  • Abseiling with a prussik
  • Belaying from the top of a route
  • Movement skills coaching

Meeting Place: Limekilns

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August 2025

A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Braemar 

Meeting Place: Braemar Mountain Rescue Team Base, Corrie Feragie, Braemar, AB35 5YL

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A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Braemar 

Meeting Place: Braemar Mountain Rescue Team Base, Corrie Feragie, Braemar, AB35 5YL

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This one-day course is designed to progress your outdoor climbing and teach you about how to effectively move on rock, protect yourself and take that first step to becoming an independent outdoor climber.

What you'll learn

  • Recap of the basics (see Introduction to Rock Climbing)
  • Placing and removing gear
  • Building and equalising belays
  • Abseiling with a prussik
  • Belaying from the top of a route
  • Movement skills coaching

Meeting Place: Kingussie

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This one-day women's course is a first step into outdoor rock climbing. Experience outdoor rock climbing with the safety of a Bottom-Rope, learning some new skills that can start you on your outdoor climbing journey.

What you'll learn

  • Fitting harness and helmet
  • Tying into the rope
  • Belaying from below and lowering
  • Abseiling
  • Crag etiquette and use of guidebooks
  • Movement coaching on real rock

Meeting Place: Blackford Quarry

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A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Ochils

Meeting Place: Ochils Mountain Rescue Team base, Bankhead Farm, Fishcross, FK10 3AN

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A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Ochils

Meeting Place: Ochils Mountain Rescue Team base, Bankhead Farm, Fishcross, FK10 3AN

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This one-day course is designed to progress your outdoor climbing and teach you about how to effectively move on rock, protect yourself and take that first step to becoming an independent outdoor climber.

What you'll learn

  • Recap of the basics (see Introduction to Rock Climbing)
  • Placing and removing gear
  • Building and equalising belays
  • Abseiling with a prussik
  • Belaying from the top of a route
  • Movement skills coaching

Meeting Place: Kingussie

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This two-day course is designed as the next step on your journey to becoming a safe and independent Trad Climber. Looking at the skills to be a competent second and looking at what’s involved in lead climbing.

What you'll learn

  • Movement technique on real rock
  • Competent seconding skills
  • Belaying a trad lead
  • Placing and removing traditional gear
  • Setting up belays
  • Setting up retrievable abseils
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Glen Nevis 

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This two-day course is designed as the next step on your journey to becoming a safe and independent Trad Climber. Looking at the skills to be a competent second and looking at what’s involved in lead climbing.

What you'll learn

  • Movement technique on real rock
  • Competent seconding skills
  • Belaying a trad lead
  • Placing and removing traditional gear
  • Setting up belays
  • Setting up retrievable abseils
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Rosyth Quarry 

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Now you can trad climb, let’s make you a pro. Through perfecting ropework skills and gear placements, to making the best decisions and problems solving, it’s time to perfect your Trad Climbing on this one-day course.

What you'll learn

  • Advanced movement technique
  • Lead climbing skills
  • Perfecting traditional gear placements
  • Setting up complex belays
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.
  • Solving common problems

Meeting Place: Glen Nevis

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Being proficient in the Scottish Mountains in summer conditions is of course much more than just the ability to navigate well - although navigation is one of the  crucial elements of safe travel in the mountains.  These weekend courses go a step further than the basic navigation skills to introduce valuable skills to members who regularly visit the summer mountains and who wish to develop their abilities to become safer and more proficient.

What you'll learn

This weekend course comprises two days of instruction. It will include all of the following aspects to ensure safe and enjoyable days on the hill:

  • Pre-planning with reference to maps, guide books, websites & weather forecasts.
  • What to pack in your rucksack
  • Navigation
  • Route choice
  • How to cope with more difficult terrain such as scree, rocky steps, boulder fields and steep ground.
  • Emergency procedures

Area: Glencoe

Meeting Place: The Alex MacIntyre Memorial Hut, Ballachulish, Glen Coe

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September 2025

This one-day course is designed to progress your outdoor climbing and teach you about how to effectively move on rock, protect yourself and take that first step to becoming an independent outdoor climber.

What you'll learn

  • Recap of the basics (see Introduction to Rock Climbing)
  • Placing and removing gear
  • Building and equalising belays
  • Abseiling with a prussik
  • Belaying from the top of a route
  • Movement skills coaching

Meeting Place: Creag Na-heigh

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Now you’re a sport climber let’s make you a pro. Learn some advanced technical and movement skills to make your Sport Climbing as safe and efficient as possible on this one-day course.

What you'll learn

  • Advanced Sport Climbing skills
  • Advanced belaying skills
  • Projecting skills
  • Advanced movement coaching
  • Decision making – understanding risk evaluation and management.

Meeting Place: Benny Beg

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October 2025

A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Arrochar 

Meeting Place: Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team Base, Arrochar, G83 7AZ

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A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Arrochar 

Meeting Place: Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team Base, Arrochar, G83 7AZ

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A one-day Mountaineering Scotland navigation course will give you a firm grounding in practical mountain navigation skills, no matter which fitness level course you choose. Instructor ratios are 1:6 and there are spaces for 12 people per course. The courses aim to introduce or refresh essential navigation skills.

What you'll learn

  • Increase your confidence in finding your way on the hill
  • Learn the skills of map reading and compass bearings
  • Learn how to follow a bearing accurately
  • Pick up handy hints and techniques to locate yourself on the hill in poor visibility

Area: Arrochar 

Meeting Place: Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team Base, Arrochar, G83 7AZ

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