With all the excitement around planning for Skills for the Hills 2026 and attending the forthcoming Dundee Mountain Film Festival, we forgot to tell you that we have uploaded our latest annual report and accounts to our website. This is the formal document that we submit to OSCR the charity regulator each year.

PS We are also busy working out dates for our Winter Skills courses - more on that later.

Mountain Aid wishes to thank both the Scottish Mountaineering Trust and The Munro Society for grants and donations towards the costs of hosting our Skills for the Hills 2026 event.

We're delighted to be able to tell you that we have the following presentations lined up for Skills for the Hills (in no particular order)

• Lorraine's Up n' Doons - presented by Lorraine McCall - Lorraine Mccall 221 corbetts and now 231 Grahams
• Behind the Scenes of Mountain Rescue - presented by Alison McClure of Tayside Mountain Rescue Team
• Inversion Hunting - presented by Garry Nicholson of Mountain Weather Information Service
• First to Aid: Easy as ABC - presented by Neil Hamlet of Ochils Mountain Rescue Team
• Rights and Responsibilities when accessing the Hills - presented by Rachel Taylor of ScotWays
• Navigation: the Compass and beyond: a modern toolkit - presented by Max Hunter of Mountaineering Scotland  

​All these presentations will be taking place in the indoor Pathfoot Lecture Theatre at the University of Stirling. 

We will bring you news of other activities at Skills for the Hills very soon.

​Save the date - Saturday 7th March 2026
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Three dates for navigation courses have just been released.

First Steps with Navigation 2025 dates
Saturday 13th December                 Ochil Hills 


Next Steps with Navigation 2025 dates
Saturday 22nd November               Ochil Hills
​Saturday 6th December                  Ochil Hills

Full information and booking at ​https://www.mountainaid.org.uk/navigation.html

Courses are now available for booking on the following dates:
​Sunday 4th May                  Ochil Hills
Saturday 24th May             Pentland Hills
Saturday 28th June            Ochil Hills