Skills and Safety in the Mountains
Enjoying Scotland’s mountains safely means having the right skills and knowledge to cope with the conditions you’re going to meet.
This section of the website outlines some of the essential skills you should master, including navigation and a knowledge of the effects of weather and conditions, along with ways to avoid or cope with any risks involved.
Where you lack particular skills, it may be that one of our courses can fill in the gaps in your knowledge or help you hone and refresh existing skills.
There’s also that knowledge which requires updating for every trip: what the weather is likely to do, and what the snow and avalanche conditions are.
Mountaineering: The Essential Skills
It’s more than just keeping safe: learning the essential skills of hill walking and mountaineering means you will get so much more pleasure and satisfaction from your trips to the hills.
Instead of never knowing quite where you are and relying on companions to guide you, you can have the satisfaction of planning and following your own routes, knowing at all times where you are and what you are seeing round you.
And instead of not knowing what to do in the face of changing conditions, you can have the confidence and self-reliance to make sensible decisions for yourself.
The Cairngorm Club will help you learn about the importance of safety and how to stay safe. We cover all sorts of skills, e.g:
o Navigation
o Weather and avalanche safety
o First Aid
o Mountain Rescue
o Health and hygiene
