1. If you are leading a group in Snowdonia, you need a mountain leader's certificate. If you are going for a couple of hours' stroll across a familiar route, you can probably get by with common sense, backed up by your youth work training and experience. In between is a grey area. They happen a lot outdoors in the UK. To help fill this one is the Walking Group Leader Award, overseen by Mountain Leader Training UK. It is intended for leaders of walking groups in summer conditions in non-mountainous hilly terrain, known variously as upland, moor, bog, hill, fell or down.
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