It was a restless night! A two man tent with three occupants! Two Thermarests in a min-rectangular space meant that the person in the middle got to lie on an uneven triangle of mat / cold hard ground and the people on the outside got to lie on two thirds mat and one third cold trough at the edge of the tent! For a start, we dressed, expecting arctic temperatures and imminent death from hypothermia. In fact the tent was so warm with three bodies and a candle insid...

Yet another early start! (And this is a holiday?!) up at six and a glimmer of dawn over the lakes and mountains. We started the day with tea and hot granola, before breaking camp at 7.30 to meet the Skyline shuttle at the Signal mountain trailhead at 9am. We arrived, our bags packed and scrambled on to the shuttle - ready to go! I will admit at this point to some feelings of trepidation, being several leagues outside my comfort zone... The Skyline trail is the ...