Syllabus:

• Equipment usage and care
• Route planning
• Walking and route finding
• Navigation
• Campcraft
• Responsibilities of the Leader
• Group management
• Access, conservation and environmental knowledge
• Weather
• Non-technical river crossings
• Hazards and emergency procedures (not involving steep ground)
• MDT and NQF training and qualification structure and skills
• Scope and remit of the qualification

Scope of the Award:

The Walking Group Leader award provides the opportunity to develop and demonstrate the technical competence in leading groups in hilly and non-technical mountain areas. Such areas may be subject to hostile weather and require an element of self-sufficiency that is reflected in the syllabus.
The terrain imagined in this award meets the following criteria:

• Areas accessed and enclosed by well-defined boundaries such as trails, tracks and paths
• Areas of limited remoteness that are easily exited in a few hours, returning to a refuge, lodge, hotel or road head
• Areas where movement on steep or rocky terrain is not required (in either a planned or unplanned situation)
• Areas of limited altitudinal height where the environmental hazards associated with altitude are not a factor

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