A community of practise evening 

7th November 2023 

6pm - 8pm 

Venue: Plas y Brenin Lecture room and Training Wall

Plas y Brenin are allowing us to use the venue free of charge. The bar will be open and the bar meals are very tasty, so it would be really appreciated if people could show their thanks by getting a bar meal after we have finished. If you're local you can get a locals discount card too, so a pretty reasonably priced meal. The menu can be found here if you'd like to check what's on offer beforehand- https://pyb.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Autumn-23-Bar-Menu.pdf 

The aims being to have the opportunity to discuss practise in an honest open and friendly way. 

I envisage splitting into groups and focusing on a particular area, discussing and then feeding back to the rest of the community at the end of the evening. With the training wall available for use this will also allow practical discussion.

It would be great if some volunteers would be happy to step forward to head up some of these groups, keep the group focused and be happy to feedback what has been discussed. Please let me know if you would be happy to do that. 

With the training wall available please bring along harness, helmet, belay devices, lanyards and some rack and ropes that will allow running through some practical discussion. PYB stores will not be open and there will not be kit available from their for us to use.

Can you please email me (Kath James) info@mountain-expertise.co.uk if you would like to attend, so I have an idea of numbers. 

Topics that have been suggested include;

1) Teaching of belaying

- How are we teaching novices to bottom rope belay?

- What devices are we using?

- How are we teaching lead belaying? Belaying us as the leader and belaying each other.

- Falling...

- Near misses

2) Guideplate/magic plate/ plaquette use

- When are we using this in our work?

- Short comings of these devices

- Near misses

3) Lanyards

- What's out there?

- What is appropriate use of a lanyard?

- When and how are we using them ?

- Near misses 

4) Mountaineering

- How are we teaching scrambling?

- How has the knowledge that a 80kg load side swiping and edge can cut it changed your practise? 

- Near misses

5) Stance management 

- Traditional management with the rope and why this is a useful skill for all climbers 

- Use of the shelf, SWAMP etc - pro's and con's

- Use of a girth hitch and pro's and con's

Start

07/11/2023 18:00

End

07/11/2023 20:00

Total Days

1

Maximum Bookings

25

Bookings

13

Venue

Plas y Brenin

Town

Capel Curig

County

Conwy Principal Area

Postcode

LL24 0ET

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.10185

Longitude

-3.91868

Name

AMI

Phone

07859024799

Email