{"id":5898,"date":"2011-12-12T08:29:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T08:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:13:06","slug":"winter-skills-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/winter-skills-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter skills training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snowy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"snowy\" width=\"310\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5949\" \/>The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) is running a series of 4 Winter Skills courses and 3 Avalanche Awareness courses this winter. These one-day training courses provide a great opportunity to learn new skills, which should enable those new to Scotland\u2019s winter mountains to be more self-reliant and make better judgements when out on the hills.<\/p>\n<p>The courses are organised by the MCofS Mountain Safety Adviser, Heather Morning, who says: \u201cThe MCofS winter courses are great value for money and a superb way of equipping yourself with the skills needed in the Scottish mountains in winter. By limiting the course content to the key requirements and one day only we are able to keep costs to a minimum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heather went on to say: \u201cThe MCofS is working tirelessly to reduce the number of mountaineering incidents in Scotland and we are urging those that are new to winter activity to take up this opportunity of good quality training as part of achieving that aim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Winter Skills courses are for MCofS members only, whereas the Avalanche Awareness courses are open to both members and non-members.<\/p>\n<p>The MCofS courses are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Winter Skills courses at Glenmore Lodge. Tuesday 3rd January, Friday 6th January, Saturday 28th January and Sunday 29th January. Course fee \u00a350.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche Awareness courses are on the following dates and venues. Sunday 8th January \u2013 Nevis Range. Saturday 4th February and Sunday 5th February \u2013 Glencoe ski area. Course fee \u00a340 for MCofS members and \u00a350 for non-members.<\/p>\n<p>For further information see the MCofS website.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcofs.org.uk\/events.asp\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) is running a series of 4 Winter Skills courses and 3 Avalanche Awareness courses this winter. These one-day training courses provide a great opportunity to learn new skills, which should enable those new to Scotland\u2019s winter mountains to be more self-reliant and make better judgements when out on the hills. The courses are organised by the MCofS Mountain Safety Adviser, Heather Morning, who says: \u201cThe MCofS winter courses are great value for money and a superb way of equipping yourself with the skills needed in the Scottish mountains in winter. By limiting the course<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/winter-skills-training\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23510,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions\/23510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}