The schedule above lists our planned sessions.  Dates and bespoke or private courses can be arranged to suit your requirements.  While based from our training room, apart from an introductory or Map Reading Theory and Fundamentals course our training is practical and done in appropriate terrain.  All courses can be delivered on a 1 to 1 basis if required, please ask for details.

Hill Skills and Mountain Skills

Hill skills intended as starter sessions covering non-mountain terrain.  2 days at £140 per person for between 3 and 6 clients.

Mountain skills intended to equip you for going into mountain terrain.  2 Days at £140 per person for between 3 and 6 clients.

National Navigation Awards

Introduction to mapping module 1 session of app 4 hours (between 4 and 6 candidates at £60 each)

Bronze training and assessment 2 days (from 3 to  6 candidates at £140 each) 

Silver training and assessment 2 days (from 3 to  6 candidates at £140 each)

Gold Training and assessment  2 days (from 2 to 4 candidates at £150 each)

We can also offer 1 day Navigation revision/introduction workshops to refresh or improve your own skills and can tailor courses to suit you own groups, structures or specific needs, such as Navigation for Women, or GPS and so on.  These sessions can be run on a one-to one basis of £140 per day.

To register for the National Navigation Awards please click on this link which goes to the NNAS website.

GPS Training, one day introduction to the use of GPS, includes a refresh session on map and compass skills which are needed to make fully effective use of the instrument.  Bring your own unit, as while they all have the same basic functions the operational menus differ even from the same manufacturer.   (from 2 to 6 candidates at £65 each for a one day session or £35 each from 2 to 6 for an afternoon (or morning if that is better)).  We base this course in our classroom but it can be delivered on your own premises if you wish.

Summer Hill skills, one day introduction including steep ground, wild camping, and navigation (£140 per day for up to 3 clients, plus £15 per additional person up to a maximum of 8).  These can be tailored to suit your own requirements.

Winter Hill skills, one day introduction to use of crampons, ice-axe, steep ground, snow holing/emergency shelters, and navigation (from £150 per day for up to 3 clients, plus £15 per additional person up to a maximum of 6).  Depending on suitable weather conditions there may be some significant travelling involved, requiring early starts or late finishes, possibly overnight.  Ice axes and crampons are available if you do not have your own, though you will still need to have a pair of good 4 season or stiff 3 season boots (suede, nubuck or fabric are not suitable).  Overnight snow-holing is not undertaken unless conditions are suitable with sufficient depth of accessible and safe snow.

For all the training sessions you will need to bring your own personal equipment (see kit list), any specialist group equipment will be provided.

As clients will tend to have different standards of experience we can tailor your training to suit your needs.  Most of the subject matter can be gone over in a single day, though this is not recommended as there will possibly be too much to take in, especially if there are new physical skills involved.  The best way of establishing what you want is to contact us in advance and have a discussion.  Unless a client wants otherwise, this training will be undertaken on a hill-journey so you can have an enjoyable and challenging walk at the same time as learning or enhancing skills.

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