Sunshine dancing

Only 14 days till the Challenge starts and the rain looks to continue for the near future, yikes! 

 

For all of you reading this, please get your dancing shoes on and start doing your sunshine dances.  Just imagine a rain dance and do the opposite!  Obviously I'm not after full on belting-down sunny heatwave, but no rain and lack of wind would be just the job.  Not too much to ask surely?

 

All the kit is coming together now.  I've just got to sit down and work out exactly what I need to take and which bag to put it in.  We are allowed three bags:

 

1) The first is our rucksack, max 35 litres in volume, which we'll be carrying with us holding the obligatory waterproofs, water, food, first aid stuff, mobile and other bits and bobs individuals feel the need to lug around.  I'll certainly have my camera.

 

2) The second back will be a small draw-string one that will be given to us at registration.  This is to hold a few other bits that we think we'll need on the challenge but won't want to carry with us.  For example my idea at the moment is to have some sandals in this one so I can put those on in between mountains to let the old feet air.  Thank goodness blogs don't do scratch and sniff.  This bag will then stay with the coaches and apparently will be how we sign in and out of the walking sections.  In other words if everyone is ready to roll on to the next mountain but there's a bag left out then either someone has gone AWOL on the fells or the wally has got on the coach without grabbing it.

 

3)  The last bag will hold clothes we arrive in and depart in at either end of the challenge.  So this will be taken from the first campsite to the last and we won't get access to it until the end.

 

So the key will be working out what I want in each bag.  As my lovely wife will testify I can guarantee at some point I'll wish I'd packed something that I didn't.  Hey ho, its list making time.