I've started this blog as part of the Mountain Leadership module of my second year of a foundation degree in Outdoor Education at Truro College. Initially I have set it up as part of an assignment but hopefully I will continue to use it to record my different experiences in the hills and on the crags.
What are my aims for this coming year? On a large scale I hope to be ready to take my ML assessment by the time I finish the course next summer. Living in Cornwall this will be fairly hard to do. Fortunately, I have already done the training course and with trips planned to Scotland and Snowdonia over the next two months with college, I will gain more experience in personal walking and group supervision.
Having worked as a climbing instructor over the summer I feel more confident talking to large groups of people whether they're children or adults but I know that once out of my comfort zone, up a mountain and lost in the mist I will find it harder to control the group. It is only with more experience that this will improve and with trips leading younger students in North Wales and Dartmoor I feel my confidence will grow.
So I look forward to the coming months, getting back into the mountains and becoming a qualified Mountain Leader.
