Course Description

Students must choose one of the following four specialisations: mountains/glaciers, coast – sailing, coast – kayaking and waterways. The choice may not be the same as the physical environment chosen in the course 1264 Outdoor Life and Guide Training II: Mountains/Glaciers, with Optional Specialisation.

Coast - sailing, specialisation II, skills and knowledge:

• Further knowledge with regard to sailing a boat along the coast, including the following topics. Choice of area, safety, and responsibility including consequence analysis. Weather, wind and currents. Planning trips. Being ready for the sea. The leader’s responsibility. Rescuing members of the group and first aid. Capsizing practice. Basic procedures in open square sail boats ( råriggede båter)
• Further skills in the use of open square sail boats, including rowing, sailing, loading and trimming, manoeuvring, trial sailing and trimming. Choice of harbour and mooring. Distribution of tasks, roles and basic procedures
• Navigation, also outside the skerries and night sailing using several lights and between sectors
• Precise manoeuvring in difficult harbours and navigation under difficult conditions
• Weather, wind, currents and correction for drift
• Theoretical issues and other material equivalent to licence for pleasure boats (Båtførerprøven)
• Planning trips: sailing/rowing trips in groups, safety procedures and norms for participants
• The guide’s various roles
• Sailing and rowing in small boats rigged with spritsails, tacking, reach, range and height, drift, ballast and packing of boats
• Maintenance of boats and equipment, rigging and sails, repairing hulls, rigging and sails, storage of oars, rigging and sail making
• Further knowledge of pedagogical and didactic problems in connection with guiding using traditional work boats along the coast, including didactics: trip norms, procedures, organisation and leadership.
• Training on the pre-industrial society, the qualification of guides, leaders (høvedsmenn) and formal education.
• Further knowledge of nature along the coast and coast culture.

Mountains/glaciers, specialisation I, skills and knowledge:

• Further knowledge of mountain climbing on skis and alpine expeditions, including choice of an area, safety, responsibility and consequence analysis.
• Weather, wind and avalanches
• Planning trips
• Going on trips in groups, safety procedures and trip norms
• Rescuing members of the group and first aid
• Rock-fall walking, bouldering
• Basic rock climbing in cliff areas, use of ropes, belaying points, rappelling and rock climbing techniques on cliffs
• Basic ice-climbing, ice walking, climbing on ice
• Specialisation in glacier exploration: equipment, walking in rope-teams, safety, rope-handling, movement solutions, belaying points, lowering, repelling, rescuing, climbing
• Specialisation in alpine expeditions: orienteering and route selection, walking through steep rock falls, safety in the mountains, trips on uneven terrain; trip practice and building experience.
• Further skills in alpine skiing and mountain climbing, including orientation and choice of routes, safety in the mountains and on steep snow slopes, skiing technique
• Further insight into pedagogical and didactic problems in connection with guiding in the high mountains, including glacier guiding and guide theory, didactics and methodology, trip norms, procedures, organisation, working methods, leadership
• Nature in the high mountains and cultural issues

Waterways, specialisation II, skills and knowledge:

• Further knowledge of using canoes on rivers, including choice of area, safety, responsibility and consequence analysis.
• Weather, wind and currents
• Planning trips
• Paddling trips in groups on rivers, preparing to go on a paddling trip
• The guide’s responsibility
• Rescuing oneself and other members of the group; first aid on rivers
• Using a solo canoe: paddling in calm water and in rapids
• Further skills in paddling canoes both solo and double
• Specialisation with regard to inspection and choice of routes, with the aim of guiding groups on a canoe trip on lakes and waterways
• Nature, culture and local environment activities with regard to streams, rivers and lakes
• Equipment, maintenance, and repairs
• Didactics and methodology, guiding theory, trip norms, procedures, organisation, working methods and leadership skills
• Further insight into pedagogical and didactic problems related to guiding with canoes on rivers up to level II+ and III-, including didactics and methodology, guiding theory, trip norms, procedures, organisation, working methods and leadership
• Further knowledge of culture and nature on waterways

Specialization in coast - kayak, skills and knowledge:

• The importance of having enough energy in store when going on trips, choosing an area, safety, responsibility and consequence analysis. Being ready for the sea.
• Introduction to the kayak and equipment, using your kayak and landing your kayak.
• Capsizing in your kayak and getting out of your kayak in the water.
• Using your kayak: paddling, paddling techniques, route selection, paddling in a group, organization.
• Rescuing oneself and other members of the group, towing and use of tow line, Eskimo rescue, rolling.
• Weather, wind, current, drift and correction of course.
• Navigation inshore.
• Planning, kayaking in groups, safety and trip norms.
• Didactics and methodology, guiding theory, trip norms, procedures, organisation, working methods and leadership skills.
• Coast nature and coast culture.

(Corresponds to the NPF’s introductory, basic and techniques courses).

• Further knowledge in using a kayak along the coast, including: the choice of area, safety, weather, wind, currents, trip planning, rescue and first aid. Further skills in kayaking.
• Further understanding of pedagogical and didactic problems related to guidance skills in using a kayak along the coast, including: didactics, trip norms, procedures, organisation, management and leadership.
• Navigation, including offshore and at night using lights and between sectors.
• The guide’s different roles.
• Guidance, planning and implementation of educational programmes.
• Further knowledge of the coastal landscape and coastal culture.
• Knowledge of NPF and their educational system, physical training, error correction

(Corresponds to NPF’s activities leader course).

Assessment Methods

Portfolio assessment. Students will compile a portfolio for each period in the outdoors and two practical training reports which will be assessed on a pass/fail basis. In order to receive a diploma students must have participated actively in the obligatory trips, individual trips and excursions, and they should have successfully completed the practical training period.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean