

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 4-day Winter Skills Course, Scotland
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 12 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 am – Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: This 4-day/3-night residential course will provide practical learning in the necessary skills required for mountain hiking in the winter, pre-adventure planning to the parctical skills required to journey safely in the winter mountain environment.

Whether you are new to winter mountaineering, or just need to dust off the cobwebs, this practical trip will cover everything you need to know in order to stay as safe as possible in the mountains

​Covered on the trip will include:

- Pre-trip planning (the stuff you do in the comfort of your own home)
- General Safety and risk mitigation
- Weather forecasting and awareness
- Avalanche awareness
- Winter navigation
- Safe use of crampons and ice axe
- Movement techniques on snow and ice
- Ice Axe arrest (the use of you ice axe if you were to fall and slide down a slope - don't worry, this is done in a safe area and is a lot of fun!
- Constructing and using show anchors
- Building an emergency shelter in the snow
- Building (and sleeping in) a snow hole
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/aviemore/4-day-winter-skills-course-scotland/200029403998432
- **Event Categories**: workshops, trips-adventures, trekking
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.citymountaineering.com/trip/winter-skills-course/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=aviemore-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Aviemore
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Cairngorms
- **lat**: 57.083333333333
- **long**: -3.6666666666667
- **full address**: Cairngorms, Aviemore, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: City Mountaineering (https://allevents.in/org/city-mountaineering/12976951)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 12 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Cairngorms, Aviemore, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** City Mountaineering
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, trips-adventures, trekking
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about 4-day Winter Skills Course, Scotland ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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