Winter Mountaineering 5 days

• Cairngorms
• Winter Mountain

This five day course is designed to provide you with an introduction to Winter Mountaineering.

Who’s it for

This course is for those with some winter mountain walking & summer scrambling experience, looking to take their first step into more challenging winter itineraries and steeper terrain, what would be a scramble in summer. Learning the core skills of Winter Mountaineering is essential before progressing to Winter Climbing.
This course is a perfect follow on from our Winter Skills course.

What’s included

• Refresh core winter skills, ice axe and crampon use, basic movement skills
• Planning, weather & avalanche forecasts
• Movement skills over grade I/II winter snow & scrambling terrain
• What to wear & carry on the mountain
• Use of a rope and climbing harness
• Snow anchors (construction and use of; bucket seat, buried axe, snow bollard & deadman)
• Rock anchors (selection and use)
• Abseiling and retreating techniques
• Emergency procedures
• Avalanche awareness, avoidance & safe route choice
• Winter navigation techniques
• Small ratio, 2:1, lots of flexibility with itinerary and route choice.

Full course information, itinerary and kit list will be sent once the booking has been confirmed.

Accommodation is not included, we recommend you book a place in the town of Aviemore, where there are lots of options for hotels, B&B’s and apartments.