Training Weekend and Meeting the Team

On 13th and 14th November Nigel kindly drove Grant, Antonio, Dan and me to meet up with the team in the Lake District. We stayed at the Briery Wood Hotel, just outside Windermere arriving at 6pm on the Friday evening.

Most of the team had already arrived, apart from George who had a great afternoon buying all his kit in Blacks in Oxford ! and didn't catch up with us until later in the evening. I dropped off my bags and soon met Allyson who had flown over from Dublin and we got on well straight away. We are sharing our tent on the mountain so it was great to meet at last :-). We all met in the bar and soon got chatting about Kilimanjaro, our training and the challenge ahead. Everyone is working hard with their training and fundraising so its going to be a busy few months with the final preparations.

During the weekend we had an excellent briefing from Maximum Adventure and went on some great walks with views over Lake Windermere. We were all pleased to meet Jaz our Mountain Guide who will be coming with us to Africa. He gave us some great tips on climb preparation and things to be aware of as a team with regard to climbing at high altitude.

Everyone went home feeling great and well informed on the challenge ahead... on with training and fundraising and roll on February 2nd !