Welsh Winter Skills
  • Plas y Brenin
  • 2 Days
  • 6 People to 1 instructor

Welsh Winter Skills

  • Hike
  • Beginner
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Overview

On this Welsh Winter Skills course, you’ll gain confidence with a wide range of winter-specific mountaineering concerns, including how to choose and use winter equipment, basic winter navigation, and safety. Our friendly, highly experienced instructors will cover what you need to know to make navigating winter landscapes safer for you. This course will set you up to explore the countryside with greater freedom year-round.

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The Objectives

You’ll gain the confidence to go hillwalking in Wales and England in winter. You’ll know how to keep yourself safe and comfortable in changeable conditions out on the hill, and you will be able to kit yourself out and fit winter-specific kit such as crampons properly. You’ll have a basic knowledge of winter-specific concerns, including avalanche awareness, navigation in poor visibility, and self-arrest.

Itinerary

* Please note: Itinerary is subject to weather and availability.

You’ll cover what to wear, what to carry, and how to respond to a weather forecast, with a practical session on selecting, fitting, and carrying in a classroom session before heading out onto the hills. We’ll also cover winter navigation, avalanche, and what to do in an emergency. You’ll learn crampon and ice axe techniques, and have guidance on winter clothing and personal comfort. You’ll get time to develop your new skills in the mountains, taking in the stunning Snowdonia winter scenery. The Welsh winter can be fickle, and snow and ice conditions cannot be guaranteed. Throughout the course we’ll take a flexible approach to the programme to make the best possible use of the prevailing conditions. If there is no snow, the course will still run.

Experience Required

You should have some summer hillwalking experience, but no previous winter walking experience is needed. We encourage you to do as much regular exercise as possible, preferably outdoors - You don’t need to be a superhero to take on this course. Just make sure you’re prepared by doing some summer hillwalking as a minimum.

Up your winter walking game with our intensive, two-day winter skills course in spectacular Snowdonia scenery.

Available Course Dates

Start the booking process by selecting a course date, then adjust your details to suit your requirements.

Course Start Date
Duration
Cost*
Course Start Date
9th January, 2027
Duration
2 Days
Cost*
Non-Residential:
£295.00
Residential:
£445.00
Course Start Date
16th January, 2027
Duration
2 Days
Cost*
Non-Residential:
£295.00
Residential:
£445.00
Course Start Date
23rd January, 2027
Duration
2 Days
Cost*
Non-Residential:
£295.00
Residential:
£445.00
Course Start Date
30th January, 2027
Duration
2 Days
Cost*
Non-Residential:
£295.00
Residential:
£445.00
Course Start Date
6th February, 2027
Duration
2 Days
Cost*
Non-Residential:
£295.00
Residential:
£445.00
Course Start Date
13th February, 2027
Duration
2 Days
Cost*
Non-Residential:
£295.00
Residential:
£445.00
Course Start Date
20th February, 2027
Duration
2 Days
Cost*
Non-Residential:
£295.00
Residential:
£445.00
Course Start Date
27th February, 2027
Duration
2 Days
Cost*
Non-Residential:
£295.00
Residential:
£445.00

*If your course is based at Plas Y Brenin, Capel Curig, residential prices include catering from the morning of your course start date and cover the duration of your course, accommodation starts on the night before your course commences to the morning of the last day of your booking.

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