GLSW Mountaineering Courses

Courses 2010

The County Mountaineering Instructors Team, under the direction of , run a number of courses for scouts and leaders with varying levels of experience. The courses normally have some evening and/or weekend content in the south-east, followed by a weekend away.

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Mountain Skills Weekend: 14 & 19 - 21 Feb 2010. These weekends will be run by GLSW and the Surrey Scout County, and are open to all Scout Association members over the age of 16; they will be run from the GLSW County Activity Centre (Yr Hen Neuadd) in Bethesda on the edge of Snowdonia National Park, North Wales. Participants are expected to have a general interest in mountaineering and ideally would have been involved in expeditions into the hills.
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Mountain Skills Weekend: 26 April & 7 - 9 May 2010. These weekends will be run by GLSW and the Surrey Scout County, and are open to all Scout Association members over the age of 16; they will be run from the GLSW County Activity Centre (Yr Hen Neuadd) in Bethesda on the edge of Snowdonia National Park, North Wales. Participants are expected to have a general interest in mountaineering and ideally would have been involved in expeditions into the hills.
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Rock Climbing. Unfortunately there are no plans for a course at present. Please contact in the first instance if you are interested in having a course organised.

The Explorer Scouts' Weekend: 17th October & 22ndOctober - 24th October 2010 is again based in Bethesda.
(Pictures from the 2006 weekend here.)
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Authorisation Assessment can usually be arranged on any of the courses held in the appropriate terrain.

National Governing Body (Mountain Leader Training Board) and Assessor Training courses are held at a number of centres throughout the UK.