- 8th July Multi Pitch efficiency - Snowdonia £45 group size ideally max 4 but may be up to 6 depending on interest
- 9th July Self rescue (Advanced ropework) - Snowdonia £45 group size ideally max 4 but may be up to 6 depending on interest
- 11th Nov Navigation - Peak District £35 group size ideally max 6 but may be up to 8 depending on interest
Please send cheques to me, payable to Leeds Mountaineering Club as usual.
Thanks,
Mark
MPE:
- Marq
- Karl
- Luke
- Dave C
- Cath
- Adrian
- Karl
- Neil R
- Paulina
- Kevin
- Lindsay M
This day will focus on efficiency tips and tricks to make multi pitch climbing quicker and more efficient. The exact content can be flexible enough to cater for individual participant experience levels and requirements but the range of areas covered will include:
- Stance management skills for multi-pitch efficiency
- Rope management for efficiency and speed
- Equipment choice and organisation for multi-pitch climbing
- Belay building tips to improve efficiency on longer climbs
- Improving efficiency and safety on multi-pitch abseils
- Abseiling tips when using double ropes and single ropes with a rap line
Self Rescue
This day is designed to give participants a set of key rescue skills that can be adapted to a variety of situations and terrain types. The exact content can be flexible enough to cater for individual participant experience levels and requirements but the range of areas covered will include:
- Choosing suitable self-rescue equipment for general use
- Tying off a belay plate
- Escaping the system
- Lowering a climber
- Lowering a climber past a knot
- Accompanied abseils
- Ascending a rope
- Assisted and unassisted hoists
Navigation Course
Content will be determined by people that want to go on the course but the below covers what the maximum could be but this would only be covered if attendees are happy with other areas.
This day is designed for those with previous navigation experience who want to add extra tools to their navigation toolbox and push their navigation strategies on more challenging featureless terrain. The content will, to some extent, be tailored to meet the needs of participants but it is expected we will cover the following as a minimum:
- Applying navigational strategies such as aiming off, attack points, handrailing, overshoot features and aspect of slope
- Understanding a range of map types and scales
- Understand the use of both large and small contour features on the map and on the ground
- Develop decision making factors affecting route choice
- Judging distance accurately on the map and being able to relate this to distance travelled on the ground
- Employing appropriate relocation strategies
- Using a compass to follow accurate bearings and to check the direction of footpaths or other linear features on both the map and ground
- Additional skills that can be employed when navigating in poor weather
Original post below.
I would like to get an understanding on the interest for training courses this year.
Will is looking into first aid course opportunities. Note the course in April run by York Canoe Club.
What sort of training course would you like us to put on? June or July would most probably be the target times to run the courses.
Thanks,
- Navigation / advanced navigation
- Introduction to trad climbing
- Advanced ropework
- Multi-pitch climbing / efficiency
- Scrambling
- Anything else?
Mark