Ain’t no mountain high enough!
Ain’t no mountain high enough!
Our kids are awesome and have made a lot of friends at school, so when Adam and Emily were invited to join a charity walk on behalf of the Rose Blossom trust walking up Snowden, we jumped at the chance. Emily’s legs aren’t quite up to the challenge yet but Adam is 6 and I’m 38 so between us our average leg length should be enough to get up what is essentially a really, really big hill.
You can’t go doing this sort of Herculean thing without a support team though and given we don’t live in the shadow of Snowden, we decide on a family road-trip and took the opportunity to go camping. Rachel and Emily will be at the bottom cheering us on whilst me and Adam make our way up and up and up towards the summit. Several of Adam’s friends from school are making the trip too so we all we set off in high spirits for what turns out to be a really great day.
A few hours in, we stop at the half-way cafe for a short break and a bit of lunch to take in the view and have a chat with our fellow walkers before heading off again into the foggy summit.
It’s roughly six hours from start to finish but the time with Adam is the real goal here and watching him power up and over some huge boulders and ,sliding downhill along the railways shingle pathway we get back just in time to be clapped back in and enjoy hot dogs and ice cream with Rachel and Emily. I imagine we’ll probably give it a week before we try this again as the aches and pains are already starting to creep in even before the long drive home but it was really worthwhile.
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