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.
THIS IS OUR MOST PHYSICALLY DEMANDING COURSE, candidates MUST be fit enough to spend 8 hours on the hill and ascend up onto the Cairngorm Plateau in hostile conditions. If you are unsure whether this course is for you, please contact info@mountaineering.scot.
Our most demanding courses. A very high level of fitness is required over many hours. Rough terrain and hostile conditions will be encountered. Max distance 15km, max ascent 1000m per day.
Nine hours of intensive winter navigation training with particular consideration to avoidance of avalanche-prone slopes and cornice features. Techniques will include timing, pacing, walking on bearings, aiming off, boxing away from cornice edges, attack points and much more. We will ‘walk into the dark' and experience the challenges of night navigation.
The course fee does NOT cover kit or accommodation.
Is this course suitable for you?
(Please note that one day winter skills courses run every Tuesday prior to these dates. You MUST have attended a winter skills course prior to attending the navigation course)
The courses will be held in the Northern Cairngorms meeting at the Tiso Store in Aviemore. We work on an instructor to student ratio of 1:6
Courses will start at 12 noon and finish between 9 & 10 pm
Cost: TBC
The course fee does NOT cover kit or accommodation.
To book onto one of our mountain safety courses, you need to be a member of Mountaineering Scotland. Thanks to your membership, we can subsidise the costs of our courses and offer you cheaper course prices than most commercial providers.
Please take a look at our useful course information for booking and cancellation conditions.
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