Holiday Week 1: Friday: Penrith

Dozed within tent (or with intent) till the sun was well up again, and then prepped to go hiking, scrabbling and possibly climbing after lunch.

Forgot to mention that in the night as I was walking back from the loo I spotted 3 cats. Well, I didn't really see them, as much as lots of different coloured pairs of LED tracking me - like a group of ninja-preditor-cats. Freaky!

Anyway, I'm taking Tilly out on her first trip - she better live up to her reputation or I'm sticking to the Berghaus cap! Am also using a load of other kit for the first time (or 1st time in over 10 years in some cases): including Merrel boots, karrimor bag, dry sacks, socks, source water sack and tube, compass, int fact most stuff. Plus I have my camera. Yeah!

Bonus: my five-finger-technical-performance-toe socks should be arriving today. Toes crossed.

Wow, scrambling was even better than caving! We did a short (hour) walk for me to revive my basic map reading skills, then a bit of a short climb (hour of zig zagging up the first 500meters) followed by scrambling up 200 odd meters of scree and rocks - kinda like tetris for your whole body (I can put this hand there, an that foot there, and this knee there ....) and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Finished off the day having prawn noodles cooked for dinner, then fell asleep on the sofa while everyone else played guitars, drank port and sang a wide variety of music pieces. Having just woke up at 2am, I'm driving us home as have a long day tomorrow: navigation practice, rock climbing, and then a hard trance night with a top DJ ....