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Mountain Training Scotland
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Mountain Training Scotland’s purpose is the advancement, for public benefit, of education and training in the skills required for the leadership and instruction of safe hill, mountain and moor walking, mountaineering, and rock and ice climbing.
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Lovely day down in Sma Glen for this years Community of Practice Workshop for Mountain Training Scotland Trainers, Assessors and Tutors. We spent the day looking at the Hazards and Emergency Procedures section of the syllabus. Stunning weather and great input from everyone.
Group assembled at car park in the Sma’ Glen Four walkers looking at some steep ground on the side of a hill. Lovely blue sky on a warm sunny day. Photo shows three people on a heather covered rocky outcrop. One has just finished scrambling up a short rocky step and is being given a helping hand up onto the heather. Group of walkers practicing doing an improvised stretcher carry using linked rucsacs.
June 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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I was down a wee bit from there last week. Beautiful weather
February 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Winter Mountain Leader in action! www.mountain-training.org/qualificatio...
Photo showing a group of six winter walker ascending a shallow snow covered slope silhouetted against the skyline by the sun. Ciste Mhearad.
February 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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This report reviews the delivery of Mountain Training Scotland's Winter Mountain Leader scheme during the 2023-2024 winter season. www.mountain-training.org/help/resourc... #Winter #Mountain #Leadership
A group of waterproof cladded Winter Mountain Leader candidates clustered together checking their maps in very cold and snowy conditions on the mountains at Drumochter.
December 16, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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Winter is coming! #WinterMountainLeader youtu.be/L4AijlnteB0?... #MountainTraining
Two winter walkers standing pointing on top of the Fiacaill in snow covered Cairngorms with blue skies Group of four Winter Mountain Leader candidates standing silhouetted by the sun on the snow covered summit (Buchaille Etive Beag) A group of Winter Mountain Leaders wearing full waterproofs with their heads up and wearing goggles, encrusted by snow and ice, taking shelter in the old Alamein shelter in the Cairngorms. It looks very cold and wintry! A group of well equipped (full waterproofs, helmets, goggles, boots and crampons) Winter Mountain Leaders walking up a slope in a blizzard with very poor visibility.
November 15, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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From 1st January 2025, our climbing instructor qualifications will use updated syllabi to incorporate the leadership and decision-making competencies we added to the walk leader qualifications in 2022. www.mountain-training.org/about/what-w...
Rock climber wearing a red T-shirt and brown trousers climbing in the sun with no midgies up a sandstone slab in the North West of Scotland.
November 15, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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NEW: #MountainTraining Bouldering Wall Instructor coming soon!
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Image shows a very young climber on an indoor climbing wall bouldering problem. They are climbing a series of yellow holds and are at the top of the 2-3m high problem
November 11, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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Mountain Training Scotland bursaries to support candidates wishing to undertake a Mountain Training course provided by a Mountain Training Scotland provider www.mountain-training.org/help/support...
The image shows the clustered hands of a group of four hillwalkers wearing waterproofs holding both map and compass working out a navigation leg.
November 11, 2024 at 10:55 AM