INTRODUCTION TO WINTER SKILLS
Group ratio 1:6, 5 days / 6 nights
You’ll gain a clear understanding of the principles and quickly attain the skills. You’ll be able to choose the most appropriate technique for the terrain and conditions. With adequate time given over to practise, you’ll finish the course proficient in both the technical winter skills and those essential winter navigation techniques.
If you:
• wish to extend your hillwalking into the winter season
• need to know how to use an ice axe
• want to know about emergency snow shelters
• have few navigational skills
• want to confidently navigate in white-out conditions
• want to learn all the skills for safe movement across snow &
ice - covered terrain: crampon techniques, evaluate avalanche risk, etc.)
• want to know about step kicking and cutting
• want to consolidate the skills to optimise future winter trips
• plus a whole lot more ...
- then this may well be the course for you.
Dates: 2008/9 season dates to be
confirmed by May 31 2008
We
suggest you aim to arrive by 7.30pm on the evening before the holiday
commences, in time to join the rest of the group for dinner.
Departure is after breakfast on the morning after the course is complete.
Price: tbc (5 days, 6 nights)
fully inclusive of accommodation at Fraoch Lodge, full board, pick up/drop
off from Aviemore station or Inverness airport, and all instruction.
Comprehensive course information is available in the pdf which you can print off if you choose. For further information, check out our FAQ section. Anything you need to know in addition please don't hesitate to call/email us for an answer.
Mountain Innovations Ltd will pick up from Inverness airport at approx. 5pm, if required.
Mountain Innovations advises all clients to take out suitable insurance cover. We can offer you the names of some insurance companies clients have mentioned to us, but we can in no way endorse any particular company. Please feel free to check all available options.
Final choice of route on the day is at the discretion
of Mountain Innovations Ltd and may depend on prevailing weather conditions
&/or the fitness of the group. 
"I'd just like to let you know how much I enjoyed my time at Fraoch Lodge and on the mountains with yourselves and the rest of the group. you invited us into your home and really made us feel welcome - I hope to have the opportunity to stay with you again sometime." Gerard Thornley
