Advanced Scottish winter mountaineering courses, Scotland.

Advanced winter mountaineering

The advanced winter mountaineering course is a 4 day course designed to give a good progression from winter skills to winter climbing.
The winter mountaineering course begins by teaching essential winter skills like crampon use, step cutting and ice axe breaking to enable you to feel comfortable on snow.
The winter mountaineering course then introduces winter climbing skills by tackling a winter scramble. We finish the course by guiding you up both winter ice climbing routes and mixed winter climbing routes.
No previous winter experience is needed for our winter mountaineering course, however a knowledge of indoor or outdoor summer climbing is an advantage.
Winter climbing is a strenuous activity and advanced winter mountaineering participants should be hill fit and willing to carry a winter sack into the climbing area.

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Course programme

The night before: We'll meet up with all the other winter mountaineering course participants and run through the kit that you have, issue hired kit and discuss what you need to carry for each day.
Winter mountaineering day 1: Winter skills including walking on snow and ice, using crampons, step cutting, ice axe braking and basic avalanche awareness.
Winter mountaineering day 2: Guided winter scrambling
Winter mountaineering day 3: Guided winter ice climbing
Winter mountaineering day 4: Guided winter mixed climbing
The order of the winter mountaineering days 3-4 may change weather dependant.
The advanced winter mountaineering course is run on a maximum 1 instructor to 4 clients ratio on the first day and 1 instructor to 2 client ratio on days 2-4.

Kit list:
Kit: Climb365 provides helmets for ice axe breaking and hires walking axes, boots and crampons. Please see dates and prices section

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Advanced winter mountaineering

Course dates & prices

Advanced Winter Mountaineering course 2012
Course duration: 4 days
Course Ratio:1:4 1st day, 1:2 days 2,3 & 4.
Non residential course cost : £560
Total 4 star residential course cost : £722 to £752

Mon 2nd to Thurs 5th Jan
Fri 6th to Mon 9th Jan
Mon 9th to Thurs 12th Jan
Fri 13th to Mon 16th Jan
Mon 16th to Thurs 19th Jan
Fri 20th to Mon 23rd Jan
Mon 23rd to Thurs 26th Jan
Fri 27th to Mon 30th Jan
Mon 30th jan to Thurs 2ndFeb
Fri 3th to Mon 6th Feb
Mon 6th to Thurs 9th Feb
Fri 10th to Mon 13th Feb
Mon 13th to Thurs 16th Feb
Fri 17th to Mon 20th Feb
Fri 24th to Mon 27th Feb
Mon 27th Feb to Thurs 1st March
Fri 2nd to Mon 5th March
Mon 5th to Thurs 8th March
Fri 9th to Mon 12th March
Mon 12th to Thurs 15th March
Fri 18th to Mon 19th March
Mon 19th to Thurs 22nd March
All courses are guaranteed to run as soon as 1 person is booked. We do not exceed the ratio laid out above in order to keep the instructor to client ratio at the optimum.

If you like the look of the course and want to have 1:1 course delivery with flexibility to maximize your potential then please contact us to arrange private guiding. You can see more info on this link.

To read more about the accommodation and how to get to Aviemore click
Winter accommodation

Winter kit Hire
prices per day
Boots £10
Crampons £6
Walking Axe £5
Climbing axe & hammer £12 a pair
Helmets and harnesses are supplied free of charge.

All our courses can be booked by individuals, and are offered at set prices on set dates. If you want to come on a date that is not offered as a course we will do our best to help. Please see our private guiding section of the website.

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winter climbing reports

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Photos

Winter mountaineering on the advanced winter mountaineering course.