Planning the hill day: route plan, kit, daylight and ways off
40 min
It is a bright November morning in the car park. The forecast looked fine on the phone last night, the ridge is in sunshine, and you tell yourself you will be down by three. Nobody at home knows which way round you are going. The head torch is in the car because "it's only a day walk". By two o'clock the cloud has come down, the ground is slower than…
In this lesson
Planning a hill day and leaving a route plan
Building the plan
Why the alarm time matters
Common mistakes
Carrying the essentials
The list
Why these and not others
Planning for darkness
How to plan for it
Turnaround times
Setting one
Escape routes and bail-out points
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