Hill Skills Courses in The Peak District
Peak Navigation
Courses have been accredited by Mountain (Leader) Training to provide the new Hill and Mountain Skills Courses.
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| Learning Hill Skills on Eyam Moor |
Hill Skills will be run at weekends from our base in The
Peak District, the weekends of 17th & 18th May and 18th & 19th October. These are
non-residential courses and cost £85, (though in addition you will need to
register with Mountain Training for an additional cost of £20).
The Hill Skills Course
will teach you: To read a map and
navigate; How to Plan a Walk;
About equipment and
clothing for hill walking; The effects of weather
in the hills;
About the upland
environment; and How to deal with
emergencies.
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| Learning Navigation |
Day 1 Saturday
We meet at 9.30am in
the village of Foolow, using the village hall as our base for the day.
After a short indoor
session learning about maps and navigation we go out for a walk practising map
reading and navigation techniques and relating the map to features on the ground.
A working lunch back
in the village hall where we plan our route for the afternoon, which takes us
across open moorland navigating using a compass and pacing distances.
Returning to the
village hall, we finish with a session about clothing, equipment, weather, and
emergencies and plan our route for the next day.
We expect to finish
around 6pm.
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| Learning to move safely on steeper ground |
Day 2
Sunday
Having already planned
our route, we meet near Edale at 9.30am for the start of a full day out on Peak
District Moorland. You will be
involved in both the navigation and route choices.
During the day we will
talk about the moorland environment, work being done in the Peak District to
preserve this and how hill walkers can minimise their impact.
We expect to finish after a final "de-brief" around
5pm.
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| Silva "Expedition 4" Compass |
