Part of Mountain Leader Training Course
This was our 2.5 day exped with wild camping. Still walking under the supervision of the instructor, we spent the time navigating short / long legs into set destinations, group management skills were tested and expeditions skills looked at and learnt from.
The main teaching / learning point here was the night navigation which I found useful as it mixed micro-nav and leadership decisions and all in very poor weather conditions.
The wild camps were great - looking at other candidates gear and using each others kit was good to cover. More rope work which I felt went well and I was able to get a better idea of anchor points and direct belays.
Weather was up and down - showers and strong winds at night, downpours at times, followed by good and clear on day 2 during the day and on day 3.
The fact that the ground was saturated proved a good learning point for all of us in terms of admin in the camp locations.
Area :
Carneddau
The Carneddau (lit. "the cairns"; Carneddau is a Welsh plural form, and is sometimes anglicised to Carnedds) are a group of mountains in Snowdonia, Wales. They include the largest contiguous areas of high ground (over 2,500 or 3,000 feet (910 m) high) in Wales and England, as well as six or seven of the highest peaks in the country—the Fourteen Peaks. The range also encloses a number of lakes such as Llyn Cowlyd and Llyn Eigiau, and the Aber Falls waterfalls. It is delimited by the Irish Sea to the north, the Conwy valley to the east, and by the A5 road from Betws-y-Coed to Bethesda to the south and west. The area covers nearly 200 square kilometres, about 10% of the area of Snowdonia.
