winter mountaineering

Winter Navigation

winter navigation

 

Your happy with your summer navigation but would like to up your skills to winter. Winter navigation is a lot harder than summer due to a number of factors such as:

  • Snow flattens and hides land features.
  • Paces and timings are massively effected due to varying snow conditions.
  • Visibility.
  • Weather.
  • Can’t use some summer navigation techniques due to avalanche and cornices dangers.

 

Prerequisites

To have experience of summer navigation

 

  • Equipment
  • Different maps and scales
  • Timeings
  • Paces
  • Barometric Altimeters
  • Navigation tactics
  • Safe route choices

 

If you would like more information or if you have any questions then please drop me an email. You can click on the button below for courses I have running or I can put a course on to suit you.

Course Dates

Winter mountaineering courses

Guided Winter Mountaineering

Guided Winter Mountaineering

Do you want to head out into the mountains in winter but have no experience? Then let me do all...

Winter Navigation

Winter Navigation

  Your happy with your summer navigation but would like to up your skills to winter. Winter navigation is a...

Winter mountaineering skills

Winter mountaineering skills

If you’ve spent some time in the mountains in winter but would like to check that you’ve got all the...

Intro to winter mountaineering

Intro to winter mountaineering

Have you ever wanted to head out into the hills in the winter and be able to look after yourself...