[GUEST POST] We first met Catherine Marsh in November 2019 when she completed her Mountain Leader training with us. Here she tells about her experience on her Mountain Leader assessment course in October 2021.
Read MoreWhen you register with Mountain Training for a personal skills or qualification course, you will have access to your digital logbook, or DLOG. Amongst our candidates we see the whole range of attitudes towards the DLOG, from ‘I find it easy and straightforward to use and I’ve logged all my experience’, to ‘I find it really confusing, and most of the info I’ve inputted has disappeared’. For those of you who struggle with your DLOG, here are some tips to help you to get on better with it.
Read MoreWhen you sign up for something new, the worst thing for many people is not knowing what to expect. In 1990 I set off on my journey to becoming a British Mountain Guide. I had an idea of the outline of the course programme, and I had talked to other people who were further along in the scheme. But I still had unanswered questions, and I wasn’t totally sure what to expect. That is true for anyone on any course, whatever the subject or level of learning. And it will be true for you when you sign up for a Mountain Leader training course, so we’re giving you a sneak peak into our courses, including a couple of excellent videos made by one of the candidates
Read MoreNo-one likes to fail. It doesn’t make us feel good, and it can cost us time, money, energy and pride. Failure can be defined as a lack of success in doing or achieving something, especially in relation to a particular activity. Fear of failure can prevent us from trying, but failure is inevitable. Everyone experiences setbacks sometimes, and if we can change our mindset about failure, it can be good for us, even though it might not feel like it at the time. If you’ve been out with Chris, you’ll probably have heard him use the FAIL acronym, which stands for First Attempt In Learning.
Read MoreAs part of the Mountain Leader award training and assessment we cover remote supervision and route planning, and look at lots of different ways that this can be done. I ask the candidates to consider this: what is the point of doing a route card? I think there are two crucial points when considering how to draw up a route card: it must be useful as a risk assessment document, and it has to make sense to the person who will be using it. The traditional route card with rows and columns doesn’t make sense to everyone, particularly to someone who struggles with numbers. So what should you include on a route card, and how should it be presented?
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