Winter Climbing Improvers Course Outline

All of our Winter climbing Courses will cover as much as they can given the conditions at the time. It is not always possible to cover every aspect but we will try our best.

These courses are aimed and people looking to Learn to lead and improve their climbing lead grade of decoding grade.

• Refresher to Winter Walking and climbing Equipment
• Learning to lead
• Pushing your grade
• What equipment/rack you should be carrying for Winter Climbing
• Refresher in Walking/moving on snow and mixed ground with both boots and crampons.
• Placing and selecting rock and ice protection
• Snow anchors
• Building belays
• Abseiling
• Route selection and tactics for leading
• Route planning taking into consideration, the weather and avalanche forecast
• The Be Avalanche Aware Process
• Emergency procedures