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Blog Archive: June2019

Rock Climbing Instructor – the New Single Pitch Award

Rock Climbing Instructor – the New Single Pitch Award

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The Rock Climbing Instructor qualification is the new name for the old Single Pitch Award.

We look at the updates and changes to syllabus here.


Posted on 27 June 20199 June 2023
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November birthday climbing scenes, managed a quick November birthday climbing scenes, managed a quick easy route and a nice walk along the coast with Merlin, Steph and Tash. Warm out of the wind down at the base of the crag. Great little route, Toccata *** (Diff), Symphony Point.
Cloud inversion on top of Crib Goch for the Mounta Cloud inversion on top of Crib Goch for the Mountain Leader Training team, providing a stunning backdrop to the day's teaching. We have one final Mountain Leader Training course running this year Tuesday 26th November - Sunday 1st December, 2 spaces remaining! Get in touch for details if you'd like more info, we'd love to have you join us. Thanks to @alice.kerr.mountaineering and @danlanemountaineering for giving the team a great day out. Everyone's putting in lots of effort taking on board the learning, asking us lots of insightful questions and also sharing their own knowledge and experience which is so often the case on these courses. @ami_professionals @mtntraining @alice.kerr.mountaineering @danlanemountaineering 📸 @lucy.lismore.fitness 📸
Catching up on social media, it's been busy! I r Catching up on social media, it's been busy! I ran a Mountain Leader Navigation Refresher Workshop for the Tom Furey Memorial Trust Festival @tomfurey_mt the other weekend. The nav group took the windy conditions in their stride, putting in the effort developing their skills in tough conditions. The weekend was a great success, raising £6687 for the charity. Lots of folk accessed great quality workshops at all levels; from beginner sessions to advanced topics like big walling and bolting. They're all super good value, and all the money goes directly towards supporting the work of the charity; helping to support folk in financial hardship to access outdoor training courses. Dates for next year's "Furey Festival" are now confirmed as Friday 17th - Sunday 19th October 2025. Put it in your diary and follow @tomfurey_mt so you can get in early to book these great value workshops. Alongside the workshops, the kit sale is always worthwhile, there's great inspirational lectures from adventurous folk, and the after party is good craic! If you can't make it for any reason, donate a bit of cash anyway and support a great charity. Grant applications are now open, so if you, or anyone you know, it's experiencing financial hardship and needs a bit of help to access outdoor training, get in touch with the trust. For the outdoor instructors working with disadvantaged groups, if you spot someone who's got the spark but is struggling get in touch. @tomfurey_mt @ami_professionals @rab.equipment
Bolting workshop for the @tomfurey_mt "Furey Fest" Bolting workshop for the @tomfurey_mt "Furey Fest" on Saturday. Thanks to @goverticalclimbing for sharing his expertise on all things bolting with us; it was a great day of hands on learning. A bit of theory in the morning before heading out and putting it all into practice bolting a new climb, aptly named "Furey Road" First ascent by Emily Cooney & Marcus Cross 19/10/24 Furey Road F3c - Start a couple of metres left of “SW Buttress” below a resin bolt. Climb slabby rock to the left of SWB passing resin first bolt, then 12mm SS expansion bolts to the belay ledge of SWB (optional belay here). Traverse leftwards and up to the blunt nose and follow this to a twin bolt belay/abseil station just below the top of the buttress. Abseil descent possible from here on x2 50m ropes, or top out as for SWB and walk off as per that route. @tomfurey_mt @goverticalclimbing @ami_professionals @rab.equipment
A busy couple of weeks with Mountain Leader Traini A busy couple of weeks with Mountain Leader Training and Assessment courses. A collage of snapshots here from the courses; we had ace clients, got to see lots of interesting stuff and enjoyed great views; as well as not so great in the murk. Due to high demand we've put on an extra Mountain Leader Training course running Tue 26th Nov - Sun 1st Dec. Only a couple spaces remaining so get in touch if you're interested or have any queries. Thanks to @alice.kerr.mountaineering and @orangemountaineering for their help and expertise delivering alongside 🙌
Jacob, Joe and Tom putting all their learning into Jacob, Joe and Tom putting all their learning into practice on the Rock Skills Learn to Lead Sport course last weekend. Thanks for a great weekend, was a pleasure to climb and hang out with you. Thanks to @danlanemountaineering for giving them a great day on the Sunday. Thanks also to Tom for the TripAdvisor review, appreciate you taking the time 🙏 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Learn to lead sport Sept 2024 • Solo Amazing time with Stu and Dan on the weekend learn to lead sport course. It was spot on for what I wanted having led a couple of indoor climbs (up to the chains) but with no outdoor experience whatsoever. Highly rate their experience, teaching ability and overall quality service provided. They also take some sick photos Tom Cooze

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