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Ropework for Mountain Leaders Mountain Adventures

Ropework for Mountain Leaders

From £85 standard price, £45 for Aspen Instructors

Ropework training for mountain leaders, including belaying, selection of anchors, abseiling, and managing hazards.

Duration: 1 day
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Training Locations

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Training Locations

NNAS Tutor Award Course – 17 October 2026 1 day £85
NNAS Tutor Award Course – 5 April 2026 1 day £85
Ropework for Mountain Leaders 1 day £85 standard price, £45 for Aspen Instructors
NNAS Night Owl Course Evening 5 to 9ppm £35
Gold National Navigation Award Course 2 £145
Silver National Navigation Award 2 days £105
One day Winter Skills Training – 2027 1 day £90
Bronze National Navigation Award 2 days £105

Our Outdoor Training Offer

Here's a list of our outdoor training offer. Our customers include members of the public, uniformed groups, mountaineering clubs, mountain rescue teams, school teachers and youth workers. We can organise training upon request. Please get in touch if you would like to know more

Leadership Training

A hill day focused on Leadership Skills, for current or prospective hillwalking club leaders. The day includes: planning, general preparation, leader communication, decision making, mounitoring, risk and hazard awareness, emergency procedures and group management.

Group Managment Group monitoring Hazard awareness

Bronze National Navigation Award Course

The Bronze National Navigation Award course is run over two days and provides an introduction to navigation skills. The course is aimed at beginners and is for all ages. Upon completing the course you’ll receive a formal qualification and certificate (SCQF level 4). Our open courses are typically run in the countryside around Kilsyth and Mugdock Country Park. Upon request, we can run the course in other parts of Scotland.

Understanding maps Guaging distance Introduction to navigation Compass Skills

Silver National Navigation Award

The Silver National Navigation Award is a two-day course and develops your skills so that can navigate in open country using compass bearings and natural landforms. The course is ideal for participants who are confident in using a map to follow paths and tracks in lowland countryside terrain and want to learn how to navigate off-path.

Using pacing and timing Contour intpretation Compass skills Introduction to off-path navigation

Gold National Navigation Award

The Gold National Navigation Award is a two-day course developing competence in off-path navigation, adding techniques and skills for dealing with complex contour features, large and small. On completion of the course, participants will be able to plan and confidently follow safe routes away from paths and tracks in any open countryside.

Contour interpretation Re-location techniques Navigating in complex terrain

NNAS Tutor Award Course

This one day course introduces participants to different teaching techniques and exercises as part of a structured and stepped approach to teaching navigation. The course provides guidance on how to structure and organise National Navigation Award courses. It also provides lots of information on useful navigation resources. Holding the NNA Tutor Award is a prerequisite to running Bronze, Silver, and Gold NNA Award courses.

Learn how to teach navigation

National Navigation Award Night Owl Course

This four-hour course will equip you with essential navigation skills to explore and enjoy the outdoors safely after dark. You’ll learn how to adjust your pacing and timing for nighttime conditions, use relocation techniques when visibility is low, and apply navigation strategies to stay on course.

Contour interpretation Pacing and timing

One day Bushcraft Course

Want to learn some bushcraft skills like friction fire, making natural shelters, foraging for food or making natural cordage? Bushcraft is about thriving in wild places and developing a set of skills and knowledge help you do that; using natural resources to sustain you, feed you and keep you warm. Bushcraft helps you develop a much deeper understanding and appreciation of the natural environment. The more you learn the more satisfying it becomes. We offer personalised bushcraft courses and open courses. Please get in touch if you would like to find out more.

Fire with natural tinders Shelter-making Weaving and basket-making Cordage-making

Outdoor Learning for Teachers and Youth Workers

We offer outdoor learning workshops for teachers and youth workers on how to engage young people with woodland habitats. The course involves tree and wildflower identification, making natural cordage, basket making, nature art and shelter building. The course is intended to help Leaders develop young people's interest in woodlands and generate ideas for expedition aim activity.

Nature Art Tree and plan identification Cordage making Engaging children and young people in nature

Mountain Skills Course

Aspen Outdoors Ltd is a provider the Mountain Training Mountain Skills Course. The Mountain Skills Course is 18 hours long, undertaken over 2.5 days. It is an excellent introduction to hillwalking in mountain terrain. Mountain Training is the Awarding body for skill courses and qualifications in walking, climbing and mountaineering, that operates across the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

Planning, clothing and equipment Walking Skills Navigation Weather, hazards and emergency procedures

Winter Skills Training

We offer one day winter skills training, and winter skill residentials run over multiple days. Skillls training covers snowcraft, kit and equipment, avalanche awareness, snow shelters and winter hazards.

Ice axe and crampon skills Be avalanche Aware Snowcraft

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