Today we were out in
the hills looking at steep ground work for our Mountain Leader Award. Kieran took us girls and our two fellow trainee
lads (Brendan and Andy) to Spellack ,where we took turns in managing our group
on steep ground.
After lunch Kieran explored
roped steep ground work with us - we played about with body belaying an
individual down steep terrain, then looked at using an anchor to stabilize our
position whilst body belaying. We also tested
out indirect belays using the environment we find ourselves in on the hills -
for this we used a boulder to belay off.
Finally, we looked at abseiling
off steep ground using a rope with a variety of techniques such as, the classic
abseil and the South African abseil.
The six of us had a
good oul hoot in the sun, rain and hail, taking some slips and stumbles but
what’s an ML training without that?!?
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| Kath guiding Andy up some steep terrain! |
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| Kath body belaying |
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| Our fellow trainee lads - Brendan and Andy! |
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| The girls! |
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| Kieran and Caoimhe with an anchor belay |
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| Andy using an indirect belay |
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| Claire and Keiran |
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| Kath |
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| Kieran demonstrating the Classic abseil |
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