What a great idea this was

I am posting this in Camogli, one of the picturesque coastal towns and village of Liguria. The just completed walk was our shortest at 6 walking days. But we all found it very demanding in places. Just as well we had trained fairly hard for it.

 

All 10 members of the team fell over on the tracks at least once. Two of us had to purchase new boots along the way and at least two others now have boots that are on the way out.

The weather was with us most of the time and I did not have to use any of the wet weather gear I was carrying. But on the fifth day out we spent over five hours walking in clouds and dealing with wet and very slippery conditions. We were all super careful to avoid any slippages on the mostly rocky tracks with steep drops over the edges . But that is a part of the deal and why we do these walks,

Our walking days all had their own challenges and it was great it b walking in such remote and challenging conditions. A walkers walk for sure.

Route leader Peter again kept us all to agenda, timing and direction, Although we used the great trip notes and well marked maps we also had GPS tracking as well.. So a little hard to go wrong in some ways. Sometimes it was just that little more difficult to make track decisions with at times too much info and perhaps more leadership than we needed. It really comes down as to what you want to achieve. Maybe a journey to another understanding and/or destination.

So 10 happy campers are enjoying a last rest day on the coast before we go our own ways again. I think we are up to about 11 walks for some of the group which started with just two.

Each walk has been very different and most memorable in different way. And even as we have our day off and our minds turn to our next travel obligations, we are already thinking about what we might do in 2019, fitness and health not withstanding.

What a great walk idea this was.