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• Complete Instructor Course
• Climbing Week
• Canoeing and Kayaking Week
• The Adventure Week
• Courses for Women
• Intermediate Kayaking

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Weekly Diary - follow the students through their course

2011 - 2012
• First week in Spain
• Week 2 and its Hotting Up
• Final week in the Costa Blanca
• Back in the UK
• Intro to the J stroke and the compass
• Trad Climbing - finally!
• Level 1 Coach in Paddlesport

2010 - 2011
• Climbing!
• Kayaking!
• Lead Climbing and Impressions of Spain
• Multi Pitches and fly back from Spain.
• England, Canoes and the Moor!
• Canoe Rescues!
• River Lynher Trip and Team Challenge
• 2 Star Assessed, Surf Trip and River of Light.
• Level 1 Canoe and Kayak Coaching Course
• Night Nav, Solo Nav and Treesurfers.
• 3 Day Expedition and Climbing Skills
• A Cold Week in Wales
• 3 Star Skills and Swift Water Rescue
• SPA Training
• Lead climbing at Hound Tor and Hay Tor
• Mountain Leader Training and End of the course

2009 - 2010
• The course begins in Spain
• Costa Blanca Spain
• Week 2 Spain it gets hotter!!
• Lead Climbing!
• First Aid and rope work
• Canoe Expedition on the river Wye
• Climbing, paddling walking and swimming!
• A mixed week climbing walking and coaching groups.
• White water paddling
• Expedition
• Surf kayaking
• A Week in North Wales

2008 - 2009
• The Course begins in the sunny Costa Blanca
• Week 2 Leading on bolts
• Back to the UK
• Intro to Navigation and a Canoe expedition
• Intro to placing gear and lead climbing
• Capsize and Rescues
• Expedition on Dartmoor
• A typical week
• Canoe Safety Test
• Surfing in the Atlantic
• North Wales
• Level 1 Training and Assessment
• White Water
• Paddling the River Dart
• Coaching Practice

2007 - 2008
• Instructor Training starts in Spain
• Lead climbing on bolts
• The last week and was it a hot one..
• Back to Dartmoor Granite
• Introducing canoeing and kayaking
• North Wales
• Getting wetter in the pool
• Walking, Canoeing and Kayaking
• Walking Solo
• Paddling skills
• White Water Canoe Trip
• River Dart White Water
• Poling and Sailing Canoes
• Students break free
• The Lower Dart White Water Trip
• Down at the Beach

2006 - 2007
• Introduction to canoeing and climbing
• Canoeing and climbing
• the last days of autumn sun
• Wind and rain - it must be Dartmoor
• Wet and Wild
• North Wales in the mountains and in the water
• Level 2 Canoe training
• White water canoeing and kayaking
• Phase two of the course
• Climbing
• Canoe coaching and lead climbing
• Rope work skills and coaching skills
• Mountain Leader Training
• Level 2 coach assessment preparation

2005 - 2006
• Week one time to get to know everyone
• Climbing and paddling in the sun
• The Canoe Expedition
• Climbing in the sun...Again fantastic !!
• Instructors take time out
• More climbing on the Dartmoor Tors
• Winter arrives on Dartmoor
• Climbing at Chudleigh
• The First Week back in January
• A week of firsts
• Climbing on the Cornish Sea Cliffs
• Mountain Leadership in the Peaks
• Power Boat training and assessment
• North Wales
• Mountain Leader Training North Wales
• SPA training and level II assessment

0000 - 2001

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