from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
This week I was working for 4 days on a Mountain Leader Training. On Monday the group and I spent the day mainly inside covering areas of the syllabus which are covered best in a classroom. In the afternoon after the torrential rain had eased, we went outside and we introduced the group to the rope work which they will need to learn for their assessment. We covered the basics on the grounds of the centre so on Tuesday we were able to get cracking on with putting it into context and practicing lots of ...
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
This week I have been working on a Mountain Leader Training, covering all aspects of the syllabus. Day 1 was the navigation day where we went up and around Crimpiau, looking at was of teaching navigation to groups. Throughout the week we have a big interaction with the environment so we made a good start on the flora and flora of the area. Day two we went into Cwm Idwal looking at leadership styles and group management on steep ground. As the weather was close to Armageddon, we decided not to summit the
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from The Adventure Blog
The 2011 Antarctic season is just a few weeks away, and soon we'll see a number of intrepid explorers setting out for the South Pole or other locations on the frozen continent. If you have your own dreams of visiting polar destinations, you may want to consider taking a course from Ice Warrior , a company that not only organizes expeditions of their own, but provides crucial training for adventurers traveling in the extreme polar regions of our planet. Ice Warrior is preparing a full slate of Polar ...
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
This week I have been working on an Advanced Scrambling course. The group of six all had different aims and aspirations which meant we had alot to cover. The forecast was fantastic and it meant we were able to get on all sorts of classic and remote scrambles. On day 1 we went into Ogwen and climbed up the False Gribin Ridge and then down Seniors Ridge (Grade 1*), non are particularly trick but provided the group the opportunity to test out their feet before trying something harder. Day two we went back ...
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
Today I was scheduled on to take a group from a Mountain Leader Training course to some steep ground to look at rope work in the ML context. Most of the group haven't used a rope in the hills so we had plenty to cover. We looked carefully at anchor selection, how to attach ourselves to them and safeguard others over different terrain. We also looked at confidence roping, lowering and abseiling. We did all of this up and around the PYG Track which leads up too Snowdon from Pen y Pass. Was a chilly and windy
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from Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton
Photos courtesy of Zac Poulton, James Morrison and Mark Scales Scottish winter kit So having just returned from my first Scottish winter, I thought now would be a good time to share the experience. It’s hard to know where to start, as packing my bags for the trip seems a lifetime ago. I guess a good place is in fact the packing. So having seen the kit list from AP, and confident I had most of the kit; I set about the challenge of packing all the kit into two bags. This went strangely to plan, and left me
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
Today I met up with Mike who I did my MIA training with in 2009. He has his assessment coming up so he asked me to head out with him for a couple of day to discuss and practice relevant content for the assessment. Today we looked purely at rope work. We covered stance management, looking after two client (his two boys), switching from parallel to series and other rope work tricks. We then went on and looked at rescues and more rope work techniques. Mike has been on several AMI refreshment courses which ...
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
I was out again shadowing Andy on a 2 day mountaineering course. We spent most of the morning covering navigation as this is what all the group wanted to do. We did this up above Ballachulish. In the afternoon we headed to the Quarry and covered a lot of rope work, securing on steep ground, movement tactics, abseiling and placing protection.
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from Life in the Vertical
Here are a few images from the Plas Y Brenin Expedition Symposium held this weekend, some photos are by Pete Cattrel, on my camera others by myself. I have further information on the Big Walling workshop I ran on my coaching blog. I also have a diagram of the Yosemite hoist up there soon. If you have any questions on Big Wall Climbing then please post a comment on the coaching blog and I will see if I can help. If you'd like to come on a two day Big Walling course then either look at the Brenin which runs
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from Life in the Vertical
Well I have spent the weekend working at the Plas Y Brenin Expedition Symposium, which was a great priviledge to be asked to deliver the Intorduction to Bog Walling workshop. A reasonably tough challenge of trying to show all the additional skills as opposed to normal rock climbing that you need to scale a big wall like the Nose of El Capitan. Hopefully I managed to cover enough within the short time. Having heard some feedback, it really sounded like I managed to make the most of the 2 hours sessions and
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