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 Expeditions are about having FUN and team building! We have an extensive syllabus that our MLTE trained Walking Group Leader and BELa crew love to share in exciting and unusual ways.
As well as building up skills, how about “blind drops”, “night exercises” or a simple day out in the country?
The list below are areas that we cover through fun and exciting project planning, and not a classroom in sight....
- Leadership
- Leading a group
- Methods of discipline
- Methods of teaching
- Methods of testing
- Evaluating a groups proficiency
- Interests
- Local knowledge
- History
- Geography
- Photography
- Expeditions
- Practice walks
- Where to go
- Making it fun
 Staging incidents- Challenges
- Quizzes
- Competing
- Orienteering
- Ten Tors, etc
- Safety
- Country code
- Camp code
- Expedition code
- Who to tell
- Permission to walk
- Permission to camp
- Mountain code
- Weather
- Where to obtain a forecast
- Understanding a forecast
- Reading weather signs whilst on an expedition
- Chill factor
- Beaufort scale
- Hygiene
- Stomach problems
- Cleanliness
- Food preparation
- Camp sites – free of animals for 12 months
- Route planning
- Exit routes
- Time
 Naismith’s rule- Flexibility
- Emergency contacts
- Support vehicles
- Health and 1st Aid
- 1st Aid qualifications
- Emergency procedures
- Hypothermia
- Prevention
- Early treatment
- Extreme treatment
- Hyperthermia
- Sun burn
- Sun stroke
- Dehydration
- Broken bones
- Allergic reactions
- Asthma
- Care of feet
- Medication
- Cookers
- Methylated Spirit Trangiers
- Petrol Burners
- Hexi blocks
- EpiGas
- Calor Gas
- Storm Kettles
- Nutrition
- Calorie intake
- Each person could be different – height / weight
- Water intake
- Each person could be different – height / weight
- Balance menus
- Ration packs
- Very high in protein, not to be consumed all the time!
- Equipment
- Kit lists – individual and shared items
- Single day/night expeditions$
- 2+ day expeditions
- Water proof
- Wind proof
- Spare boots and plastic bags
- Packing a rucksack
- Heavy items at the top
- How to reduce weight
- Sleeping bags and construction
- 2 / 3 / 4 season
- Materials
- Care and cleaning
- Eating for free
- Water from streams
- Berries – blackberries, hawthorn
- Mushrooms – danger!
- Nuts – hazel nuts, etc
- Map
- Types of map
- Symbols
- Contours
- Scale
- Orientating to North
- Trig points
- Navigation without a compass
- Compass
- Setting
- Grid North to Magnetic North
- Triangulation
- Walking in fog
- Finding North
- by the sun
- by the stars
- by the land
- by satellite dishes
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