Our volunteers spent a couple of days in Dundee manning a Mountain Aid stand at the annual Dundee Mountain Film Festival.
As well as all the usual promotional type stuff this year we included our very own hill-bagging board game. Using an 8-sided die (N,S,E,W,NE,SE,NW,SW) participants moved around on OS sheet no 25 bagging hills by landing on squares containing them. Different numbers of points for different categories of hills (munro, corbett, graham, marilyn) added to the interest. Our highest scorer achieved 57 points over 10 throws of the die. All participants were given a Mountain Aid pen as a souvenir! And of course we had donation buckets available on the table. The Mountain Aid trustees would like to thank those attenders who were kind enough to make a wee donation. We raised £57.51 for Mountain Aid funds - enough to pay for a place on one of our free 1-day courses.
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Some new dates for our popular skills training courses.
First Steps with Navigation Sunday 1st October Saturday 7th October Friday 13th October Next Steps with Navigation Saturday 21st October Saturday 28th October Saturday 11th November First Steps in Winter (1-day) 21st January 24th February 25th February First Steps Plus in Winter (2-days) 3rd/4th February 10th/11th February 2nd/3rd march Some photos from our First Steps in Winter course a few weeks ago. If you are attending one of our future courses and have the chance to take a few photos (if you are not too busy learning lots of useful new skills), then please do share them to our Facebook group Mountain Aid Supporters . These photos all taken by and copyright of our course provider Andy Cloquet of Outdoor Adventures Scotland.
The Mountain Aid trustees were saddened to hear of the passing away of former committee member / volunteer, Annie Bell. During her time, Annie was an active volunteer with us and Mountain Aid was a cause close to her heart.
Our most enduring memory of Annie is the day her daughter Sally and friends were taking part in the Mountain Aid fundraiser, Ben Nevis High Tea. Sally and her companions slogged their way up Ben Nevis (but at least were rewarded with their High Tea when they got there), and then back down again. Only to discover that that the volunteer with the relaxing day at the foot of the mountain was none other than her mother Annie. Sally and her sister Catherine have set up a PayPal fundraiser for Mountain Aid in memory of their mother. You can contribute to the Annie Bell Memorial fundraiser at www.paypal.com/pools/c/8QRlBpwfkl At the time of writing £320 has already been raised. These money will be used to fund training courses for new hillwalkers, provide mountain safety talks, and other mountain safety related initiatives. A programme of Autumn navigation courses has just been announced and are now available for booking. We have a total of five courses and two different levels. First Steps: for the total beginner Next Steps: for those with some basic navigation skills wishing to practise their skills in poor visibility / low light. First Steps with Navigation Friday 30th September (Stirling area) Friday 21st October (Dunkeld area) Saturday 22nd October (Stirling area) Next Steps with Navigation Sunday 13th November (Stirling area) Saturday 10th December (Stirling area) Information and booking at https://www.mountainaid.org.uk/navigation.htmlNavigation Our free one day introductory navigation courses are now available for booking.
Course dates are Saturday 14th May Saturday 21st May Saturday 11th June Friday 17th June and the course venue is the Touch Estate near Stirling. Full information and booking available at https://www.mountainaid.org.uk/navigation.html |