Mountain training hill skills 14th and 15th March 2024

MOUNTAIN TRAINING HILL SKILLS 14TH AND 15TH MARCH 2024 

Day 1

We met in the Brecon Beacons Visitors Centre tea rooms for informal introductions and an overview of the Mountain Training Hill Skills syllabus. Planning, weather, equipment and health & nutrition, we covered in more depth.
This course does not include assessment and is an introduction for the candidates of walking in the hills.

From Mountain Training website:
'A Hill Skills course is your key to getting started in countryside and moorland walking. No previous hill walking experience is required because the content of the course is aimed at beginners.
If you do have some experience of hill walking but aren’t confident about planning walks, navigating and understanding the equipment required, then a Hill Skills course is an ideal way to learn.'

​Bryn Walking provided transport to the start point. The area offers so much to see, discuss and learn and how to interpret the map; contour and crag features, a trig point, limestone plateaus and sink holes, old industry and Bronze Age occupation.
The varying and limited visibility gave opportunity for demonstrating how useful and important map and compass skills are.

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Day 2

​We headed straight on to the hill on an interesting route up Fan Fawr (734m). This area offers so much for discussion regarding tourism, erosion, land ownership and management, geology, topography and it contrasts very well with day 1.

The candidates showed resilience in the weather conditions that weren't ideal and were conscientious, receptive and very good company through the course. Well done!

Course Feedback

• Helen is extremely patient dealing with repetitive requests to explain
• The course was exactly the right level
• Practising the theory
• Opportunity to ask questions