Winter Mountaineering

We can providing guiding and skills courses through the winter.

Winter Skills Weekend

This is a weekend introducing you to the skills required for hill walking in winter. We will spend the weekend on the Aberdeen side of the Cairngorms, saving travel and accommodation costs for people based in the North East. We will cover:

  • Avalanche awareness
  • Cutting Steps
  • Navigation in winter
  • Self Arrest
  • Using an ice axe
  • Walking in crampons

The course will be £120 per person. If you don’t have winter equipment you can easily hire equipment from Tiso Aberdeen.

Our first dates for the 2021 winter are the 23rd and 24th of January.

Click here to see what you need to bring along on the weekend.