Did I mention that we won’t be having showers or washing for at least 6-7 days. Ugh, that means not washing hair, or shaving legs or cleaning myself at all. Apart from the use of wet wipes, and a tiny amount of water to wash your face each morning. Ewwwwwwwwww gross.
So Mt Snowdon was great on the weekend, I had a good time with some of the other Kilimanjaro team. Felt like my fitness was right up there which is good. We couldn’t do the ridge walk because of cloud cover but here is a sneak preview of what it looks like (imagine that at 3500 feet):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELdijJpGcyc
We are contemplating going another weekend to try and get the ridge in. Hopefully without breaking our necks!
On the second day we did this crazy scramble up some mountain nearby that appeared to have no trail. From a distance it didn’t look steep but it was almost vertical. Got in a bit of rock climbing as well as swamp crawling and vegetation burrowing. Didn’t get my camera out as was trying to stay upright but photos would have been hilarious.
Going on some more day walks with the Kili crew which is nice…Peak District this weekend, maybe Malvern’s next weekend, it’s all on. We load our bags up with jelly babies, and Kendel Mint Cake – which is a block of mint flavoured sugar. Helps keep the energy up. Apparently you have to do carbohydrate loading and take heaps of this sugary stuff to keep energy and calories up. At altitude you are not hungry or thirsty so you have to force yourself to eat and drink as much as possible. Scottish tablet is another block of fattening stuff that helps you when up mountains; its ingredients are sugar, butter, condensed milk, and vanilla. Hmm yummy!
