Mountain Skills
Stride to Independence
Take your hillwalking to the next level. Learn the tricks and hacks that we use for navigating and travelling through the mountains!
This course is accredited by Mountaineering Ireland.
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Mountain Skills One
Start your journey and immerse yourself in a true skills experience. A Mountain Skills and Camping weekend.
Take the first steps towards navigating independently. This two day course is based in Wicklow and run at a pace that allows you to learn and digest your new skills. Enjoy living outdoors and evenings around a camp fire.
Route choice & planning, app use, maps, terminology, distance, weather, incidents, navigation techniques - realistic navigation.
Learn - Digest - Practice - Advance
You can revisit this course as many times as you like, perfect different skills with each session until you feel confident to tackle the hills independently.
Sign up for "Mountain Skills Two".
Mountain Skills Two
Navigate to Independence.
An immersive workshop which prepares you for those misty days! You will plan, prepare, and navigate from day into night.
Route choice & planning, app use, relocation, aspect of slope, compass use, walking on a bearing, pacing, night navigation.
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MS 1 or
Some previous navigation experience required.
2 days.
Times depend on daylight.
Approx: 15.00 - 21.00
Wicklow
Other locations can be arranged on request.
€. p/p
2024
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You can revisit this course as many times as you like, perfect different skills with each session until you feel confident to tackle the hills independently.
Sign up for "Improvers Navigation" or "Night Navigation".