How To Prepare For Your Mountain Leader Assessment #2: What I Look For In An Assessment Candidate

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How To Prepare For Your Mountain Leader Assessment #2: What I Look For In An Assessment Candidate

Passing your Mountain Leader assessment is all about showing that you can take care of yourself and your group in the mountains, whatever the terrain or the weather. In order to be able to do this, you have to be able to multi-task: to confidently take care of yourself and be able to navigate effectively whilst keeping your group safe. Here’s an inside peak into what we look for in each assessment candidate.

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How To Prepare For Your Mountain Leader Assessment #1: Quality Mountain Days in the Lake District

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How To Prepare For Your Mountain Leader Assessment #1: Quality Mountain Days in the Lake District

In this series we will be giving you some top tips and advice about preparing for your Mountain Leader assessment. We’ll be sharing quality mountain days (QMDs) suggestions for different parts of the country, and giving you an insight into what your assessor will be looking for in each candidate.

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Managing Risk in the Mountains #2: Heuristics & Mind Sets

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Managing Risk in the Mountains #2: Heuristics & Mind Sets

“Even though people are capable of making decisions in a thorough and methodical way, it appears that most of the time they don't. A growing body of research suggests that people unconsciously use simple rules of thumb or heuristics to navigate the routine complexities of modem life.” In our homes and work places that may not be a problem, but when we take that mindset out into the mountains where the variables can change so quickly, we can find ourselves in serious trouble. 

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What Should You Expect On Your Mountain Leader Course?

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What Should You Expect On Your Mountain Leader Course?

If you’re anything like me, you like to know what you’re signing up for when you choose a course. Gathering information about what will be expected of me takes a lot of the stress out of a new challenge. In a previous post we talked about what to expect on a Mountain Leader training course - that post included photos from one training course, but it didn’t show every element of the course. In this post we show you what you can expect to do on each day of a training or assessment course.

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