Discounted One-Day Training Refreshers; For When Things Open Up Again

Before covid struck - you may have been partway through training for Mountain Skills, Rock Climbing, Scrambling, Bushcraft or Kayaking.

Over the past year you potentially had very little practice; or possibly no practice at all. Maybe feeling your skills are back to zero, and you need to start your training courses all over again?

Working off the hope of things opening up a little in April/May (and obviously subject to guidelines at the time); I have scheduled some one-day refresher courses, to get you back in the saddle again, refresh any rusty skills, and hopefully after one-day's training be ready to progress and/or get back outdoors self-sufficiently and off the beaten track.

If you have, for example, completed a Mountain Skills 1 or Bushcraft Skills 1 and are feeling all those skills are forgotten; you will be surprised how much comes flooding back after just one day of refresher training. Plus a simple action plan. Plus some contacts you will make from the refresher course.

Price varies per course (see below), but will be hugely discounted. This is not just for Outdoors Ireland students - anyone can attend.

Dates are mid week and all courses are based in Glengarriff.


One-Day Refresher Leading On From Mountain Skills 1:
Thurs 15th Apr : €35pp


One-Day Refresher Leading On From Mountain Skills 2:
Fri 16th Apr : €35pp


Mountain Skills Night Navigation Refresher:
Fri 16th Apr : €35pp


One-Day Refresher Leading On From Rock Climbing Training 1:
(Rock Climbing / Belaying / Abseiling / Techniques)
Thurs 22nd Apr : €45pp


One-Day Refresher Leading On From Rock Climbing Training 2:
(Rope Work / Anchor Placement / Set Up)
Fri 23rd Apr : €45pp


One-Day Refresher Leading On From Scramble Skills 1:
Wed 28th Apr : €35pp


One-Day Refresher Leading On From Bushcraft Skills 1:
Fri 9th Apr : €55pp


One-Day Refresher Leading On From Kayaking Training:
Thurs 29th Apr : €35pp


One-Day Refresher Workshop Leading On From Business Training/Business Coaching:
Fri 30th Apr : €TBC


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Emergency Plaster From Mountain Grass

How To Make An Emergency Plaster From A Common Mountain Grass:
Fionnán Or Purple Moor Grass

This stayed intact on the finger for five hours and survived rope coiling, driving and (careful!) hand washing.

1. Pluck the grass carefully from as low down as possible.

2. Wind carefully and tightly around wounded finger, extending well beyond the wound.

3. Trap or wrap the beginning of the grass under itself.

4. A series of simple round interwoven knots, or clove hitch knot will hold plaster in place.

Foraged Lunch

Put this foraged meal together recently.

Brown river trout caught on an emergency hand line, stuffed with wood sorrell and moss roasted on a fire.

Bracken fiddleheads cooked carefully (as toxic otherwise). Salad of dandelion leaves, bramble leaves, nettle leaves and gorse flowers.

Sundew

Sundew: amazing little carnivorous mountain and bogland plant, living partly from insects it captures and devours.

Protected plant so no picking! Can be used for asthma, coughs, lung infections and stomach ulcers.

Kills insects in about 15 mins and can live to 50 years.

Fire Tripod For Cooking, Fuel Drying & Gear Drying

Here is a fire tripod with cooking options, fuel drying and gear drying. No cordage used. This took two hours to build including finding the appropriate material, which was green hazel and green willow.

Begin with three forked uprights. The other forks in the uprights are necessary for this design, so finding the right material can take time. I find hazel and willow especially good for their abundant forks.











Self standing and self locking tripod using the natural forks.

Begin to place the mid height horizontal supports.

Cut a notch into one of the mid height horizontal supports.

Use natural forks for holding the horizontal supports in place.

All three horizontal supports in place.

A longer stronger pole laid across the tripod to hang pots from. I call this the pot hanger.
















Notch one end of pot hanger also.

One end of pot hanger fitted into position to prevent slippage when pots are in use.

Two pots in use from pot hanger.

Another pot hanging from tripod for more gentle cooking.

This is an extra cooking device I call a pot pole.

Notch end of pot pole pretty deeply.

Carve two simple pegs.

Position pot pole like so over fire, either for gentle cooking at ember edge, or hard cooking at ember base. Stones can be used instead of pegs for securing pot pole.

Tripod in use with three different ways of hanging pots.

Gear drying over fire, especially effective once flames die and ember base increases.

Kindling and fuel drying. Placed into your shelter once dry as you never know when it will rain next!

A nice hazel poker.

Packed away ready for another day. While not practical to carry this if traveling on foot; on a canoe expedition I find it really useful to carry in the canoe stern and quickly assemble each evening at camp.

The overall sturdy design also allows it to be lifted on and off the fire as and when you require it.




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This Sunday 13th Just Come Availabe

This Sunday 13th Dec has just come available, and I am available, if anyone needs an intensive one-day training program run. The areas available are:

Bushcraft Survival
Bushcraft Fire Building
Bushcraft Shelter Building

Map & Compass Skills
Advanced Mountain Navigation

Rock Climb & Abseil Intro
Rock Climb & Abseil Setup
Intermediate Rock Climbing
Lead Rock Climbing

Business Setup
Business Develop

If interested in any of these please do get in touch on 086 860 45 63. Thanks, Nathan - Outdoors Ireland

Outdoors Ireland Training School - Course Calender 2015

Here is our training course calender for the remainder of 2015. As well as the courses you see scheduled it may also be possible for us to run extra courses and private training, so feel free to get in touch.

Sat 3rd & Sun 4th Oct
Mountain Skills 1 : Wicklow

Sat 10th & Sun 11th Oct
Kayak Skills 3

Sat 17th & Sun 18th Oct
Learn To Rock Climb : RC2

Sat 24th & Sun 25th Oct
Mountain Skills 2 : Kerry

Sat 31st Oct & Sun 1st Nov
Bushcraft Survival Skills 1 : Two-Day

Sat 7th & Sun 8th Nov
Mountain Skills 1 : Kerry

Fri 13th - Sun 15th Nov
Bushcraft Survival Skills 1 : Three Day

Sat 21st – Mon 23rd Nov
Learn To Lead Climb : RC3 (Part 1)

Sat 21st & Sun 22nd Nov
Learn To Rock Climb : RC2

Sat 28th – Mon 30th Nov
Learn To Lead Climb : RC3 (Part 2)

Sat 5th & Sun 6th Dec
Mountain Skills 1 : Galway

Sat 12th Dec
Mountain Winter Skills : Crampon & Axe Skills

Sun 13th Dec
Mountain Rope Skills : Emergency Mountain Rope Work

Sat 19th & Sun 20th Dec
Mountain Skills 2 : Wicklow


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