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Jul
16

SPA Training

This weekend Mike Margeson and Dan Robinson 2 MIC’s from Real Adventure ran an SPA Training Course.

Jun
12

SPA Training

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A great few days had by all! Based at YMCA Lakeside, the group have been using the indoor wall on site as well at getting out on some limestone at Twistleton… and finishing the day today at Penny Rigg.

Feb
02

CWA Training

Each year Mike and I run a CWA training course for Telford College in Edinburgh for the students on the outdoor course.
Day 1 was a Alien Rock
Day 2 was at Ratho Climbing Centre
The course was allot of fun and left 12 people really keen to get back to the wall and practice their personal skills and to find groups to try out their new found teaching skills.

Dec
23

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Thanks

Dan Robinson

Dec
22

A selection of adventures from 2010

The Following Video is a selection of our 2010 Adventures.

Nov
09

Its cold outside….

The fire is lit as winter has arrived in the Lakes. Snow down to 300m at the weekend, high winds and a little chilly. I have a feeling its going to be another great winter.  Skis at the ready!  It might also be time to start thinking about winter skills courses too.

Oct
08

New Course Dates

We have just posted new course dates for 2011.   Whether you are already for assessment, keen to attend a training course, polish off your skills or spend the winter preparing, we have the course for you!  We have course dates for CWA, SPA and ML, both training and assessment courses available.  If you cant find what you are looking for just ask….

Aug
09

Learn to Climb course and ML rope work Refresher

Well today it rained, quite a bit, so we headed for an easy route in the Langdales and then spent the afternoon a little soggy looking at refreshing Izzi’s skills for her ML rope work, we covered the confidence roping and emergency rope work part of the syllabus including some handy advanced top tips and tricks.

After a bowl of soup in the Old Dungeon Ghyll it was off to the train station to drop Izzi off for her journey home.

Aug
07

ML Assessment & Training

This week Mike and I are running an ML Assessment and Training course at Lakeside YMCA. During these courses at Mountain Leader Courses at Lakeside YMCA we use the Real Adventure minibus, Accommodation and great food at lakeside, class rooms and coffee are on tap throughout the week until we head out to the hills for our 3 day 2 night expedition.

This week I headed to the Tilberthwaite and Weatherlam area for the first day navigation assessment then over to the Langdales for the rope work day finishing off with a stop off to get our feet wet in the river Brathay for the river crossings.

Mike has a great time with the trainees on the top of Caw and up to Kirkstone Pass.

We all ended up in and arround the upper esk for the expedition.

Thanks to everyone who attended the course and looking forward to seeing you all on the hill in the future.

Aug
01

MIA Trainee Workshop – Improvised Rescue

Today we headed over to Castle Rock, the day started with a few shoers ont he walk in but soon cleared up.

We looked at…

  • Lowering/abseiling past a knot
  • Prusicking
  • Simple solutions to simple problems
  • Escaping from the system
  • Hoisting both in and out of the system
  • Dealing with more complex scenarios i.e. an unconscious climber on a traverse

The lads are now well equipped with the confidence and final few skills before they all go for there assessment.

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