So, after 4 days of hiking in the highlands, what have I learned?
Posted By Sika on September 17, 2006
That when you only have one set of clothes that are hiking–oops, sorry, hillwalking–in the highlands appropriate (that would be waterproofs, heavy boots, wool, wicking-type socks and jumpers, 2 other layers for the top and two layers for the bottom including soft shell pants–OMG those things are brilliant and totally worth $100 in order not to have a wet butt after walking around in the rain for 10 miles and eating lunch on damp, mossy beech trees)and then you hillwalk in the hillwalking appropriate clothes for 4 days consecutively, the clothes really start to reek. My bottom layer shirt has sweat stains all over it, except, funnily enough, in the pits. (is that TMI?)
I really have been having a great time, although I’m still trying to figure out how that one sheep died.
I love ruins and the hillwalking has been tremendous. I didn’t summit any munros or corbitts or even the “little”, 2000ft hills, but I did get up to 472m in a relatively short distance. That day was a shorter one, and I think I could’ve gotten nearer to the top if only I had some more time. I did get to go into the “Lost Valley” in Glen Coe. As I am almost out of time here, I will have to talk about that later.
Maybe you got the pits so sweaty that they passed the threshhold level and have entered an alternate universe where dirty is clean.
You should just stand in the shower in your clothes. Certainly before tomorrow, because I don’t want to have to stand upwind of you all week.