Into our stride now: walk to a mountain, up one end, across the top (or two), and down the other end. Once again the views were stunning, and again the bad weather didnt materialize, although it was worse than yesterday – no sun, but a few very short showers.
The ascent today was very gradual on slow, grassy paths. Eventually, however, every up is telling. I had to take more and more breaks as we approached the ridge. Actually, this is good as it reminds me to look at the view. As yesterday, it was easy to see the glacial formation of the valleys. The glaciers never reached the tops, which is partly why they have ridges that can be walked.
The valley of our ascent was relatively narrow, with a pretty little stream all along (Greenburn). The stone fences were fairly high, and made lots of junctions at the stream, although we didnt need to go through any.
As we climbed up from the stream, our botany lesson from yesterday came to life. Vince squeezed a handful of sphagnum moss and showed how the water ran from it.
