Awarding Body

Mountain Training

Scheme

Hill and Moorland Leader

Course

Training

Type

Training

Award Description

The Hill and Moorland Leader award is designed for people who want to lead groups in the hill and moorland areas of the UK and Ireland. This award is a wonderful opportunity to learn the leadership skills required to feel confident about taking people out walking. As you may have guessed from the descriptive title of this award, it focuses on non-mountainous terrain.

Hill and Moorland Leader training lasts for 3 days and will be run by one of our approved providers in the UK or Ireland.

Before you book onto a Hill and Moorland Leader training course, make sure you have done the following:

• You must be registered on the scheme
• You must have recorded a minimum of 20 Quality Hillwalking Days on appropriate terrain (ideally on DLOG) which can have taken place at any point (pre- or post-registration)

The Syllabus

Hill and Moorland Leaders should be competent in the following key areas, all of which will be covered, to a greater or lesser extent, during your three day training course.

• Walking and Route Finding
• Navigation
• Hazards and Emergency Procedures
• Equipment
• Responsibilities of the Leader
• Group Management
• Access, Conservation and Environmental Knowledge
• Weather

Detailed information on each of the above topics can be found in the Hill and Moorland Leader candidate handbook and the onus is on you to be competent in all of them by the time you come to assessment.

Will be using the Moorfoot and Pentland Hiils for the course.

Start

26/08/2022 09:00

End

28/08/2022 17:00

Total Days

3

Maximum Bookings

6

Bookings

5

Venue

Galashiels

Town

Galashiels

County

Scottish Borders

Postcode

TD1 2EB

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

55.61093

Longitude

-2.78778

Name

Nic Crawshaw

Phone

07802437941

Email