Winter Skills & Mountaineering

Winter in the Scottish mountains demands experience and skills to travel safely and to get the most from the fantastic days out that they offer. Mountain Motion can help you aquire these skills and practice them under expert guidance. The aim is to take your current abilities and develop them so that you can tackle more challenging winter routes safely. We also offer guided expeditions and classic winter routes. Winter climbing courses and ice climbing courses are also available.

All courses assume some summer walking / mountaineering experience. Courses vary in difficulty and previous mountaineering and scrambling experience is necessary in some cases. We will advise and discuss this with you.

If you want something a bit more challenging, try our winter climbing or ice climbing courses.

Browse through the skills and mountaineering courses that we offer, detailed below. If you have any questions please contact us. Remember, we are also available for bespoke guiding and private coaching and guiding.

Winter walking skills

A three day course focusing on gaining the essential winter skils. Crampon and axe work as well as snow and avalanche awareness is covered. The second and third days are spent putting it all together on classic winter walks.

Cost £180 (please note there are no more dates available now for 2012)

Winter Mountaineering

A five day course taking the basic winter skills and developing them to tackle more challenging routes. The skills to tackle classic gradeI/II gullies and ridges will be looked at. Ropework and winter belays will form an important part of the course as well as personal competance on steep ground. The ascent of some classic routes will be undertaken. Maximum ratio is 1:4

Cost £400

Classic routes

If you want a day out on a classic route such as the CMD arete or the Aonach Eagach then give us a call. Prices are as per private guiding and can be found there

Skye ridge in winter

This is the most demanding winter expedition in the UK. Conditions are fickle on Skye and the best time for an attampt is usually towards the end of February. Winter climbing experience is essential. Max ratio 1:2

Contact us for details

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It's important to know that whenever you pay for professional mountaineering services the person you get is qualified, experienced and insured to the best nationally recognised standard. If you want free advice drop Mountain Motion a line.