Today I made a very, very first and tentative step towards my medium term goal of becoming a qualified Mountain Leader (Summer), the longer term is to become a Mountain Leader (Winter) as well, but that will take a little longer!
I had a little clear time this morning so I decided to tackle my first small hill in a long time. Great Burney is not far from home, not particularly large… but has been sitting there “looking” at me for some time – so today I went for it. Climbed the hill, looped around the side on descent and took in the ancient megalithic cairns on the way back. The sun was shining and it was a rather nice wee diversion in the face of everything going on just now.
So… 45 minutes or so of hill work, which was “enough” for a first shake down and all is good. I think I will try and do a few more of the “up to 1 hour” type routes this month to get my body used to it, then start ramping up through June and July with the plan of starting the formal training in the Autumn of this year (perhaps) and qualification maybe in the Spring of 2019.
But I have started.
Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120 f4 VR @ 24mm, ISO 64, 1/100th Second, f=14
3 frames (landscape) stitched in Lightroom