Technical Terrain
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Technical terrain is as it's name suggests, technical. It includes singletrack and routes with obstacles which require technical skill to be ridden over or avoided, such as roots, rocks or holes. It does not necessarily mean big drops or seemingly unachieveable sections, but the sort of terrain that most mountain bikers may come accross on a normal ride. Typical technical terrain includes: singletrack, farm and moorland tracks and paths and other mountain bike accessible rights of way with sections requiring line selection to ride. Technical Terrain also includes trail terrain and public highways and roads. There is an enormous amount of technical riding out there, most of the riding available to us within the UK in fact is technical. It is best suited to the leading of groups with some previous mountain biking experience and abilities Technical terrain is lower than 600m above sea level and less than 30 minutes walk (about 2 1/2km) from a road or shelter. Where you go beyond these limits, you may legally need an Adventure Activity Licence, and will fall automatically into the Advanced Mountain Bike Leader terrain. Where you remain within the height and remoteness factors, but make use of less technical terrain, you may only need the Trail Mountain Bike Leader Award.
Factors for outside of the UK The Technical Leader course is designed principaly for the UK, however it may be used further afield with the following provisos: The holder is equipped with knowledge, experience and appropriate locally recognised qualifications to act as a mountain bike leader for the area they are using. These factors should include at least language, culture, weather and emergency procedures. In addition for locations with similar weather patterns to the UK, the
Leader should remain within the specification of limits as stated above.
These locations might include for example Scandanavia and northern Europe. Other terrain specifications include:
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