Navigation, scrambling, rock climbing, winter skills and mountaineering courses and guiding throughout the year for Hillwalkers, Mountaineers and Climbers in Snowdonia, Scotland and the Alps for all ability levels.
Thanks for visiting my site. I am really lucky to have my dream job taking people out in the mountains, every day of the week. If you want to learn some new skills, have fun and enjoy the mountains then keep reading!
I run a range of courses that have fixed dates and can be booked by individuals or groups and are run throughout the year. To browse all of our courses click here or follow the drop down menus at the top of the page. I can also be booked by the day on a private guiding basis. The mountains still experience all four seasons and so my work throughout the year reflects this.
I live in Snowdonia and base most of my year here. In the Spring and Summer we run navigation, scrambling and rock climbing courses on the beautiful mountains of North Wales. We also visit the Isle of Skye each May to enjoy some of the best mountaineering anywhere in the world.
As Autumn draws on we bring our rock climbing season to an end and concentrate more on our navigation and hill skills courses and our scrambling courses before the arrival of snow in winter. Our winter program is predominantly run in Scotland. We tend to head East to the Cairngorms in the early season and then over to the West Highlands through January and March. I tend to split my time equally between Wales & Scotland during the winter and we eun a full range of courses including winter skills for hillwalkers, winter mountaineering and winter climbing.
This annual rolling calendar is interspersed with trips overseas to stunning mountain locations such as the Alps, Lofoten, Rjukan and Spain.
I run the majority of courses myself but also occasionally employ a team of highly qualified and motivated climbers and mountaineers to work with me. I am an experienced climber and mountaineer and I hold the highest national instructional qualification, the Mountain Instructor Certificate. I also hold the International Mountain Leader Award. You can read more about me here. I am also a member of the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team and I am training a Mountain Rescue Search Dog with SARDA Wales.
On all of our courses our aim is to provide you with the skills that you need to leave the course self sufficient in your chosen topic. We run a variety of progressive mountain training skills courses that allow you to gain new skills and push new boundaries as you progress. We are approved providers of National Navigation Award Scheme (NNAS) Courses.
Visit our full range of courses on the courses page.
We also run a number of guided holidays to allow you to enjoy the pure activity without any of the stress of leading, organising and worrying about conditions etc. These vary from single days such as climbing Snowdon through to week long multi pitch rock climbing courses.
We run a number of open courses every month for individuals to join other like minded folks. The dates for these can be seen on the diary page.
We can pick and mix any of our courses and run them on dates to suit you by running them as a private course. You can read more on the private courses page.
Rob Johnson
What have previous clients said?
"Rob,
I thought that after my 4th fantastic course that it was high time that I join the ranks of satisfied punters and send you a note of formal thanks…..
Firstly, I must say that you make what can be sometimes be a daunting prospect (for example learning to climb for the 1st time) both very enjoyable and on contemplation seem like “a walk in the park”.
It has been a real joy and education to benefit from your relaxed but innately observant tuition.
With your guidance it has really empowered me to strike out safely into new areas of mountains and hills with a new found confidence that I would have never of thought possible.
Anyone wanting to learn new skills or develop their existing ones simply couldn't do any better but benefit from some of your expertise and guidance.
-Looking forward to seeing you in the Cuillins in May!
All the best -
Stuart - Navigation & Hill Skills, Intro to Climbing, Intro to Scrambling & Winter Skills Weekend - Jan 2010"
"Hi Rob,Thank you for a great week - fantastic guiding and a really interesting course. I can't wait to get back out to the hills - in fact I've just booked onto your winter skills course in Scotland! And I'm now off for a run to start getting fit for it. Thanks again and see you in Scotland! Best wishes"
Rosie 5 day navigation and scrambling Oct 09
