Instructor training

[Septic]

Hi everybody

Can anyone recomend an outdoor instuctor training centre?

[Tony]

Are you after general outdoor training, climbing, canoeing, walking etc or bushcraft orientated training?

[Gwhtbushcraft]

No experience of them but Plas y Brenin looks good.

http://www.pyb.co.uk/
George

[Septic]

yeh that kind of stuff, canoing climbing absailing, hill walking, mountin leading.

[Pantalaimon]

Taku Adventures has an Wilderness Guide Training. The total training takes 100 days in Canada. Its 7800 Euro in total, but it is devided in 3 modules, which can be followed seperately. The first includes for example leadershipstraining and instructiontechniques.

Here's the link. http://www.takuadventures.nl/can/egids.html

Its definitely not a normal course, its a training.
A couple of days ago I just read about it and wondered:'...what if I could do that...'

worth mentioning, not accesible for everybody

[Elessar]

hey,

Bicton college do a highly recommended and very popular 6 month training course:

http://www.bicton.ac.uk/2005-2006/fi...f6600&nextID=0

same goes for plas y brenin (4-6 month)



However the difficulty that you will find is that these are "training" courses, oyu will leave having been traind in ML and walking & BCU qualifications but very few actually provide the assesments that is normally to be done of your own back......



J

[crazyclimber]

Plas y Brenin http://www.pyb.co.uk/ and Glenmore lodge http://www.glenmorelodge.org.uk/ are both excellent and have good reputations

[Limaed]

Hi Septic
I would reccomend Plas-Y-Brenin and Glenmore Lodge also. However as has been said you may only gain a training qualification and not an assesment qualification from the short courses avalible.
Basically you can't take people out on your own until you have the approprite assesment under your belt.
An intresting site with lots of info on outdoor stuff is www.bluedome.co.uk . Many outdoor centres advertise for instructors here and it is possible to 'earn and learn' with some companies. The pay's probably going to be poor but you'll be gettting quality log book experience.
Glenmore Lodge also do the 'Night Porter' scheme- your employed at the Lodge in an ancillary role but when the a 'body' is required for an assement (climbing for example) you go an act as a non experienced client to the person being assesed.
Be very wary of centres offering outdoor diploma's, they dont count for much. As an outdoor instructor the usual qualifications you need are Mountain Leader (summer) Single Pitch Award and BCU Level two in canoing/kyacking.
Ed