Scrambling and Psychology

Enjoy an exhilarating weekend scrambling some of Snowdonia’s most iconic, rugged ridges and receive specialist psychological performance coaching to improve your mental focus for more challenging routes.
Scrambling is the cross-over between hillwalking and climbing, where the route gets steep and craggy, requiring the use of your hands as well as feet. Scrambling gives walkers access to varied and advanced terrain, including superb ridge walks with vast views on either side, opening up a whole new world and enabling walkers to reach quieter, less accessible paths.
This weekend is designed to give you the psychological skills and practical experience to feel fully confident in this environment, and in other challenging situations that may crop up as you develop as a hillwalker and explorer. This weekend is intended for people who regularly like to go outdoors and want to increase their confidence on steep and exposed terrain.
A specialist performance coach (a dual-qualified clinical psychologist and climbing instructor) will teach you cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness skills, and relaxation methods to help you develop your mental focus, overcome fears and anxieties, and increase motivation, to equip you for more sizeable challenges. Experienced mountain leaders will then take you through increasingly technical scrambles to allow you to put your new skills into practice.
Snowdonia is a great location for a scrambling weekend, as it offers a wide range of scrambles from gullies to exposed ridges, with many finishing on or close to summits. Routes will be chosen on the day to suit the weather and the group, but could include the North Ridge of Tryfan, Crib Goch or Y Gribin, alongside some lesser known rocky ridges. These routes are grade 1 scrambles, putting them within the reach of adventurous hillwalkers with average fitness.