I have conquered the elements!
May. 26th, 2008 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayI am soaked, exhausted and very happy. It's a bank holiday here so Da and I did our first real training walk for Snowdon. It is hideous weather today (rain, wind, yuck) but I thought it would be good practise seeing as we're unlikely to guarantee perfect weather for our climb.
We walked across the farm and down into the valley through the woods. Then back up by different paths and across a different part of the farm to home. It's the first time I've done a massive amount of hill walking. Mum usually just can't manage that stuff so we didn't take her, which was good because she would have hated the weather!
The rain did ease a bit as we went. Which is not to say that it stopped, merely went from torrential to just raining. It was a good test of whether my kagool will stand up to that kind of weather. Um, it looks like I need a new kagool! My boots and water-proof trousers were fine, though :-)
We were planning a trip to our local outdoor supplier today, except it turns out that they aren't open on bank holidays. So we'll have to pick a weekend to go because we need some extra walking poles (a pair each would be much better than one each), new backpacks (with bits to attach the walking poles to when we need to scramble), possibly a kagool for me and a water-proof map holder.
Still, I feel very proud of what we did today and, although I'm tired, I'm not dead. Two months ago I wouldn't even have attempted this kind of thing. Now I can. Getting fit and doing my physio religiously is paying off.
In other news, I had a fantastic visit with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
paranoidangel42 this weekend :-) And I have a new Donna fic that just needs me to finish editing (no, it was something I finished before Donna the Time Lord and didn't get around to editing, so it isn't that yet) and then it will go up. Probably this afternoon. Plus I have just one or two new reviews to put up :-)
We walked across the farm and down into the valley through the woods. Then back up by different paths and across a different part of the farm to home. It's the first time I've done a massive amount of hill walking. Mum usually just can't manage that stuff so we didn't take her, which was good because she would have hated the weather!
The rain did ease a bit as we went. Which is not to say that it stopped, merely went from torrential to just raining. It was a good test of whether my kagool will stand up to that kind of weather. Um, it looks like I need a new kagool! My boots and water-proof trousers were fine, though :-)
We were planning a trip to our local outdoor supplier today, except it turns out that they aren't open on bank holidays. So we'll have to pick a weekend to go because we need some extra walking poles (a pair each would be much better than one each), new backpacks (with bits to attach the walking poles to when we need to scramble), possibly a kagool for me and a water-proof map holder.
Still, I feel very proud of what we did today and, although I'm tired, I'm not dead. Two months ago I wouldn't even have attempted this kind of thing. Now I can. Getting fit and doing my physio religiously is paying off.
In other news, I had a fantastic visit with
paranoidangel42 this weekend :-) And I have a new Donna fic that just needs me to finish editing (no, it was something I finished before Donna the Time Lord and didn't get around to editing, so it isn't that yet) and then it will go up. Probably this afternoon. Plus I have just one or two new reviews to put up :-)
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Date: 2008-05-26 11:21 pm (UTC)And I'm wondering what a kagool is?
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Date: 2008-05-28 08:23 pm (UTC)A kagool is a waterproof coat, usually light-weight. Mine is not actually waterproof, it turns out!