Mountain Skills

[Alwyn]

Big welcome to all our new members,
I'm Alwyn and I was the training officer for the OPC last year.
We ran a few successful training courses last year which included mountain skill and rescue emergency care.
Hopefully if you are interested we will get these run again this year. You can be an absolute beginner to attend these courses or you could have experience on the hill and would like a bit more independance.
I have chalked down a Mountain Skills course for the october bank holiday weekend. We heavily susidise these courses and last year it came to about 80-90€ each which included accommodation and tuition (v.good deal)
If anyone is interested get your name down early as there are very limited places (i.e. 6/7 unless we can get a 2nd instructor.)
Please reply to this thread or e-mail me at [e-mail]

Hope to hear from you soon
Alwyn

[john]

Ye should definitely do this course if ye're interested.

I was a total beginner last year when I did it.

I learnt loads, became confident to be on the hills on my own and got to know loads of people from the club.

It normally costs a few hundred euro so it's a bargain as well.

Definitely worth it.

[jihad]

It hurts to say it, but i gotta agree with johnnie on this one.

MS was one of my first trips with the club last year and is probably the best experience i've had so far on the irish hills.

if you want to learn or improve map and compass skills, this is ideal for you. The course also includes night navigation which is both very challenging and very rewarding.

If anyone has any questions about the course get yourself down to the climbing wall in the old sports/PESS building on monday night where members will be only too happy to fill you in.