Navigation Practice
This course is designed to orientate yourself in the mountains with maps, compass and GPS! Perhaps you want to learn a new skill, or maybe you are planning an expedition and need to be able to navigate yourself and your group in unfamiliar territory? We offer this two-day course in the spring and autumn. Includes: arrival day, two days training, departure day, transfer from/to Foix train station, all accommodation with breakfast and picnic lunch, and evening meal at a local restaurant. Prices per person (minimum two people, maximum four): each 400€. Please email us for more information.
Via Ferrata Techniques
This course is designed to introduce you to the skills needed to access via ferrata routes in the high mountains of Andorra! Perhaps you want to learn about the techniques needed to discover these vertical journeys, or refresh your skills and knowledge? We offer this course in the summer. Includes: all technical equipment and transport each day. Prices per day (minimum one person, maximum four): you have the option to book and pay for the accommodation in Canillo yourself, with our guiding fee of 400€ per day. Please email us for more information for these trips.
Winter Skills
This course is designed to equip yourself in the mountains with knowledge of the snowy environment! Perhaps you want to learn how to snowshoe, interpret the snow conditions or use technical equipment (for example: avalanche transceivers, probes and shovels). We offer this two-day course in the winter. Includes: arrival day, two days training, departure day, transfer from/to Foix train station, all accommodation with breakfast, picnic lunch and evening meal, technical equipment and evening lectures. Prices per person (minimum two people, maximum six): each 450€. Please email us for more information.
“Excellent two days IML Winter skills course run by the hugely knowledgeable Dave Norris, covering the full range of winter skills you would use as an IML working with groups on snowshoes in the winter mountains of Europe. Lots of varied terrain visited, and evidence of the effect of the recent hot weather and rain on the snowpack all helped facilitate a great deal of valuable learning. A brilliant course, well-run and delivered… I highly recommend one of Dave’s courses if you are an IML working in the winter mountains of the Pyrenees or Alps.” (Phil)
“A fantastic two-day Winter Skills course with David Norris at a couple of venues in the Pyrénées Ariégeoises… he leans on a depth of experience to deliver his courses, pitched with the emphasis on sharing his passion and learning.” (Jonnie)
“Winter returned to the Pyrenees just in time and we got fresh snow and cold conditions to practice cutting steps, cutting blocks, burying axe belays and polishing our transceiver skills… brilliant to be out training and sharing ideas and experience. Thanks for running a brilliant event Dave… looking forward to the next one!” (Steve)
CONTACT US
amont.guide@gmail.com
ACCOMMODATION
Depending on the type of skills course you choose, you will either stay with us in our accommodation at Lesparrou, or we will stay in mountain refuges or hotels. Our accommodation at Lesparrou has self-catering or part-catered options. For the catered option, breakfast and a packed lunch is provided, and the evening meal is either taken at a local restaurant or in the accommodation depending on the group size. Also, there are cosy sitting/dining areas for afternoon tea where you can relax and unwind after a day out in the mountains. There are also areas in each of the accommodation for drying kit.
