Winter Skills & Guided Walking

If you want to learn the winter skills to go out safely on your own, Lupine Adventure Co-op can run courses in Scotland over 2, 3 or 4 days. We can also take you and your friends and family on guided winter walks in the North of England, North Wales or Scotland this winter.

Our winter skills courses and guided winter walking offer the opportunity to learn new skills and discover the joys of adventurous walking. You’ll explore excellent routes with our expert instructors, who’ll keep you safe as you learn, with their infectious enthusiasm .

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Winter Skills Course

The aim of these courses is to train you in the skills needed to operate independently as a winter walker in the British Isles. You will learn how to use an ice axe, crampons and winter boots to their full as well a covering weather, snowpack, avalanche avoidance and route planning on a daily basis. No previous winter walking or winter mountaineering experience is necessary to attend this course.

Every day we’ll review the weather and avalanche forecast and make a plan of where to go and what to do. On the hill the course moves from teaching the basics of using an ice axe and crampons to learning to prevent and arrest a slip or slide safely. Avalanche awareness and snowpack analysis is an underpinning theme throughout together with navigation and route choice.

The exact syllabus will vary depending on weather conditions and what you are most keen to learn.

Areas we will cover:

  • Weather and avalanche forecasts,
  • Kit and kit organisation,
  • Ice Axe / self arrest,
  • Movement skills with and without crampons,
  • Ice Axe use when walking,
  • Navigation,
  • Route choice,
  • Emergency shelter building,
  • Avalanche and snow pack analysis.

Courses will run with qualified Winter Mountain Leaders with a maximum ratio of 1:6 so that you can gain the most from the experience.

Cost: £207 (+£43 per participant) per day

** Discounts are often available for 3 or more days, or if you are booking for 4 or more people **
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Guided Winter Walking

Get together with friends and book one of our Winter Mountain Leaders to guide or train you

We have Winter Mountain Leaders available for bookings in the following areas throughout the winter.

  • Glen Coe / Fort William, Scotland
  • Aviemore / Caringorms, Scotland
  • Snowdonia, North Wales
  • The Lake District, Cumbria
  • The Yorkshire Dales, Yorkshire

We can take you and your friends and family on guided winter walks in the North of England, North Wales or Scotland this winter. For instance, when the snow falls in England you can call us up to see if we are free to take your group up Inglebrough in Yorkshire or Striding Edge in the Lake District. Alternatively, if you are very adventurous we can arrange multi-day winter expeditions across the Cairngorms.

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Winter Walking Kit

Please take a look at our winter walking kit list. If you need to borrow anything then just ask, and we will bring it along. We may not have suitable boots your size, if we don’t then we can advise you on where you can hire them.

Looking at the snowpack
Looking at the snowpack
On a ridge
On a ridge
A frosty tree
A frosty tree
On the way up
On the way up
Lairig Ghru
Lairig Ghru