26th March 2010

An over cast day after the last few days sun. Mal and I took Rosie right up into the mountains and walked for about two hours. It was lovely. There were lots more cones and I didn’t have a bag with me so Mal tied my fleece together and filled that then found a stick and carried it over his shoulder. He looked like a little boy running away from home. We went really high which was fine going up even though it pulled a bit on the leg muscles but then we had a steep incline to come down and foolishly we both had non grip trainers on and not our walking boots! We must have looked a pair of idiots trying to get down. We did comment that we remembered when we were kids and used to run down mountains like that one. Those were the days. Right at the end of the walk we came across an avalanche from the rains and really struggled to get over that without falling off the edge.

This time we found a lot of Ploughshare orchids. The two pictures are not very good as I didn’t have my camera and used my phone.

The afternoon was dull and we even had 5 minutes light rain.

Mal leaving home!
Ploughshare Orchid