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2 Day Lake District Winter Skills Training: Private Guiding

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This 2 day winter skills course based in the Lake District will give you all the skills required to enjoy the British mountains to their fullest throughout the winter months.
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£400.00
Difficulty: Hard
  2 long days in the mountains
Ascent: Up to 950m / 3200ft approx. per day
Duration: 2 Days
Start Time: 9am
Maximum Group Size: 8
Minimum Group Size: 3


"If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man."
Rusty Baille

This course is designed to provide a base of knowledge and skills, so that you can confidently travel around in the winter mountain environment. All the days are designed to be in the mountains travelling up to an altitude of between 650m – 910m using real situations to demonstrate and learn the skills. The course however can be tailored to your requirements, so if there is a peak that you want to climb or an area that you want to get to know, then great, we will try and fit it in.



"In the mountains there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can't."
Wilfrid Noyce

Day 1

‘Winterising’ your kit.
Use of the boot for secure footwork
Appropriate use of an ice axe
Using an ice axe in an emergency
Efficient, safe movement with crampons

Day 2

Taking in a major peak
Avalanche awareness
Looking at the snow pack and identifying important snow layers.
Safe route choice through the mountains and on steeper slopes
Identifying snow hazards
Basic emergency rope work techniques
Winter navigation techniques –
taking a bearing,
walking on the bearing,
white out techniques,
identifying mountain features,
use of timing and pacing

We aim to cover the skills mentioned above and any other areas that are highlighted. But aspects of the course are subject to change, due to the variable weather and snow conditions in the British mountains. However great effort will be taken to cover all aspects of the course as the opportunity arises.

Each participant will be required to bring suitable equipment for their chosen event, please see Equipment Required.

 

Where to meet: The Turning Circle, Seathwaite
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Postcode: CA12 5XJ
Grid Reference: NY 235 121

Directions

From Keswick: Leave on the Borrowdale Road (from the mini roundabout near the co-op).
Follow this road for approx 8 miles, passing through Rosthwaite until just before reaching the village of Seatoller a narrow lane leads off to the left on the bend, signposted to Seathwaite, camp site and Sty Head. This road can be busy and has passing points (unmarked), blind bends and walkers in the road, also a few sheep for good measure, please drive carefully.
Follow this lane, parking as close to the end near the farm as possible, we will meet at the turning circle before the farm entrance gate.

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