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April 19, 2013

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Back out with the FdSc students today for some navigation and team work on Exmoor. Amazing weather (and toasted teacakes) during the day.

Location: Exmoor National Park

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Mountain Skills Day 1

After a couple of non hill days doing admin and debriefing Mountain Leader candidates, today I was back out running the first day of a Mountain Training Mountain Skills course for Wet and High Adventures. After about an hour in the classroom we headed up into Llanberis Pass to look at navigation, emergency procedures and some environmental knowledge.

Tiger 800 XRx Givi Luggage

Having picked this new Triumph Tiger 800XRx up in July I have now fitted it out for touring with the Givi Outback range of hard Aluminium Cases. Initially I fitted a Givi B47 plastic case I had lying around but I didn't like the look and wanted something bigger as I have some big touring plans coming up.

The first job was to fit the Aluminum Base Plate SRA6401 which was easy enough to fit but required me to drill 17mm holes in the plastic of the Tiger tail area. The instructions were clear and the holes are pre marked already. I only had a 16mm bit so this meant a bit of filing after drilling but it all worked well and lined up. The plate looks tidy and has a very secure fit as would be expected as it it motorcycle specific. Fitting time was around 1 hour (but 20mins of this was spent looking for a 17mm drill bit).

Next the Givi Trekker Outback 58 ltr OBK58A arrived. I had dithered over the 42ltr or 58ltr but decided I would later regret it if I bought the smaller one. I was not …

A quick blast in Corie an T'Sneachda

Today was not a work day but Matt and Jamie volunteered to let me practice on them in preparation for MIC assessment (next year I reckon). With a forecast for being very blowy later, we headed into Corie an T'Sneachda and climbed 5 pitches on the Twin Ribs before a quick descent and getting blown out of the corie back to the car park.

If you are looking to employ someone to teach winter climbing then you should be looking here for an MIC holder as that is the appropriate award.

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