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February '26 Expedition Manager Training with Sam Sykes Ltd
We're joining the Sam Sykes EM Team for the 3rd consecutive Year! It was great to meet this year's team of Expedition Managers, which has expanded significantly. Training consisted of updated Standard Operating Procedures and Best-Practice together with a First-aid refresher on AED's. This is an area that skills-fade just can't be let happen, while we're fresh on this (see below). Interesting to learn that where AED's may only have Adult size pads - or in the absence of a Paediatric switch / key, the advice was to proceed on adult settings with pads applied front-left, over the heart, to the centre of the back.
First Response Emergency Care FREC3
February '26
This week, we successfully completed the first part of the FREC3 Training. There's a few weeks remaining before part II of the course, giving plenty of opportunity for further study - which is good: there's lots to learn!
Dales Archaeology
January '26 We spent the day with a group of instructors, undertaking Continuous Professional Development through Mountain Training.
The specialist topic was Archaeology of the Dales. In the area around Malham and Gordale, we examined how humans had colonised the area; how communities had evolved and devolved with the flux of time how they had left their signature allowing us to reconstruct their story.
It was a great way to kick off our activities for 2026. While it generally rains 1 day out of 2 in the Yorkshire Dales, not only did we stayed dry (and the forecast wind-chill of -10 C never materialised) - we even saw some sun!