hiking

Come July this year, some friends and I are hiking for 4 days round the Isle of Skye, Scotland. With an average of 10 miles a day through mountains and hill's its no easy feet. So Sam and I went hiking yesterday to start our training. It was all going well and easy till we met this ridge line of trees. It's actually impossible to capture just how steep this ridge was. Easily a 40° angle. And we climbed up it, with heavy rucksack and bare hands fumbling for roots to pull ourselves up with. I slipped and nearly died about 5 times. And trust me I could have literally died falling down it. But we did it. Sam and I both climbed up it right to the top, to the height of the trees at the bottom. That is an achievement.