As the Alpine season is starting, we have just finished running a series of preparation weekends in Snowdonia and the Lake District, and here you can see one of the groups on Moel Siabod. The weekends were all well attended, and we enjoyed fairly good weather on all but a couple of days. The focus of the weekends was to make people more confident of moving over steep ground, and to raise their level of autonomy in the UK hills, so that they could prepare more efficiently for their trip to the Alps. The aims were efficiency of movement, security on rocky terrain, and a good build up of hill fitness. Details at; http://www.icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/UKtraining.shtml