Follow a hill ridge from one end to the other
“There is a stretch along the top, a drop on both sides, where you will wish you had someone with you. On the far side you will be glad no one talked you out of it.”
The Recipe
- Choose a ridge walk within your ability that has a clear start, a clear finish, and a way down at each end.
- Study the whole route the night before so you are not learning it on the hill.
- Start early and get the climb up to the ridge done while you are fresh.
- Once you are on the top, keep to the path and do not shortcut the exposed parts.
- Eat and drink on the move rather than stopping long; the weather up there turns fast.
- Get through the narrowest section steadily, without stopping in the middle of it.
- Look back along the whole ridge once from the far end, before you drop off it.
- Come off by the planned descent, not the tempting steep one.
- Reach the valley with light to spare and let your legs shake.
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