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Essential Information About Hiking as Collected by Madforsport
Essential Information About Hiking as Collected by Madforsport
Madforsport.com released a series of guides contained in its website, the essential information about hiking or hill walking, as shared by Bren Whelan as their expert in hiking, rock climbing, mountaineering.
Dublin,
Dublin,
Ireland
(prbd.net)
11/09/2011
Dublin, Ireland – Madforsport.com released a series of guides contained in its website, the essential information about hiking or hill walking, as shared by Bren Whelan as their expert in hiking, rock climbing, mountaineering.
Madforsport signed up Bren Whelan as its speaker as he is considered as one of Ireland’s most qualified and experienced mountain training instructors. He is the only full Mountaineering Instructors Certificate (MIC) award holder based in the Republic of Ireland delivering mountain training courses. He has spent more than twenty years rock climbing, hill walking and mountaineering throughout the world.
He is also a full member of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors (AMI) and is fully insured. Bren is the only fully approved provider of BOS (The Irish Mountain Training Board & Mountaineering Ireland) training and assessment courses in Ireland.
Below for Madforsport.com, Bren goes through essential information about hill walking/ hiking:
1. Ensure that your mountain training instructor is qualified, approved and insured. Coupled with that, what are their actual qualifications? We have plenty of ‘cow boys’ operating in Ireland. These are people who offer courses they are no way qualified or experienced to run. As with rock climbing, the most experienced instructors are members of the AMI (Association of Mountaineering Instructors) or the IFMGA.
2. Do not buy the top of the range hiking equipment until you are sure that this is the sport for you. There is a great network of outdoor stores in Ireland, call into your local store for some sound advice.
3. You get a lot more from the mountains if you have some mountain skills, consider doing a two day training course. mountaintraining.ie
4. Make sure that you let people know where you are hiking prior to departure. On a mountain training course, you learn about ‘route cards’. These is a great way of planning your walks and creating a record that you can leave behind for some responsible to keep in the event of you not returning on time.
5. Check the weather before you go out. The weather can change quickly – irishweatheronline.com is the most accurate site available.
6. Make sure that the area is safe for hiking – check mountainviews.ie
7. Keep our environment mountains clean. Always adopt a ‘Leave no Trace’ approach to the mountains.
8. Make sure you have a head torch and other emergency items. Items which should be seen as essential are a map (laminated) and compass (know how to use them), a head torch and a survival bag. All items should be carried in a rucksack and this should be lined with a proper waterproof liner.
About Madforsport.com
Madforsport.com is a leading sporting website providing a wide range of information about different kinds of sports in the planet. Reports published on the website are independently verified and observed the highest standard of professionalism. Madforsport.com shares information about sports, hiking, hiking equipment, best hiking locations, cheap and cozy accommodations in Ireland.
For more information about Bren Whelan’s Essential Information About Hiking, please visit their website http://www.madforsport.com or call 00353 1 6339994 or email to info@madforsport.com.
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Madforsport.com is an information resource for both participating and competing in adventure sports and outdoor activities in Ireland. It also provides schedules of events, information on things to do for groups/team building and activity holidays in Ireland, and tips on how to get started in your favorite outdoor sports.
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