Work experience continues

Today is week 2 of Callum’s work experience and we even got a visit by one of his teachers from his school.

We started the day at Beaumont Park at Huddersfield where we completed the excellent orienteering course in the park. This was an opportunity to look at a different map scale, and practice some half bearings and pacing. We then retreated to a cafe to do a tabletop exercise on nutrition and planning food for a 2 day expedition.

After a healthy breakfast we relocated to Castle Hill to practise some security on steep ground and identify some plants.

We then completed an emergency procedures table top exercise, a photography workshop and finished with a look at route cards with Callum given some homework to plan a route. Lots of subjects covered today and I’m quite happy that this young man will make an excellent mountain leader.