Course Notes: ML Assessment

Program: 

For the course program click here. 

PRE-REQUIREMENTS & PERSONAL FITNESS

Before you arrive for your assessment, please make sure you have done the following:

• You must have attended a Mountain Leader training course (or have been granted exemption)
• You must be familiar with the syllabus
• You must have logged a minimum of 40 Quality Mountain Days in three different regions of the UK and Ireland
• You must have logged at least 8 nights camping, including at least 4 nights wild camping
• You must have physically attended and completed (i.e. not online) a first aid course which involved at least two full days or sixteen hours of instruction and included an element of assessment

WHERE AND WHEN IS THE COURSE HELD?

We run the Mountain Leader Training Course in Snowdonia and use a variety of mountain locations throughout the week. 

WHAT ABOUT ACCOMMODATION?

You will need to arrange your own transport and accommodation. 

Home Paper – ML Assessment

Please either print this off or copy and paste into a Word Document. You can send us a digital version or you can print it off and hand it in on the first morning. 

The number in brackets at the end of each question donates the marks available for that question.
1. Briefly describe the significance of the CRoW Act (2000). (3)
2. Who owns land within any of the National Parks in England & Wales? (3)
3. Having passed your ML you are asked to take a group along Crib Goch, is
this within your remit and would you accept the work? (2)
4. Name the most recent upland area to be designated a National Park. (1)
5. What are the aims of the John Muir Trust? (3)
6. What does the “Glorious Twelfth” relate to and what is it? (1)
7. What is AALS and where is it effective? (3)
8. List three badly eroded footpaths and describe how you would help control
further erosion as a Mountain Leader. (3)
9. You are planning an overnight camp in a remote location. How would you
minimise the impact? (3)
10. Who was Benny Rothman and what is he famous for in hill walking circles?
(3)
11.When did the last ice age come to an end to the nearest 10,000 years? (1)
12.How is Peat formed? (2)
13.Purple Saxifrage and Mountain Avens are examples of arctic alpine plants.
Our climate differs from most alpine regions so why can these plants still be
found on our mountains? (3)
14.Name two animals that change their appearance depending on the time of
year. (2)
15.Describe the main differences in landscape that you would see if you were
able to visit the hills of the UK 6000 years ago. (3)
16.Please write the countryside code. (3)
17.What resources could you use to check on access restrictions in the
mountains of England and Wales? (2)
18.You are taking a group hill walking up Scafell Pike as a summer Mountain
Leader. When you wake up in the morning the mountains are covered in a
fresh dusting of snow giving them a white appearance. What would you do?
(3)
19. Working with a group of under 18’s one child has a headache and requests paracetamol. What would you do? (3)
20.Name two items of equipment a Mountain Leader should always have in
their rucksack. (2)
There are a total of 50 marks available on this paper.Welcome to your course notes for your Mountain Leader Training.
Verbal Presentation:
Please prepare a 5 minute talk that you can give to the group whilst out on the hill. The talk can be on any topic of your choice that is mountain related. Example topics could include Mountain Birds, The Mass Trespass, The Geological history of Snowdonia. You choose!