the motivation
i was alone with our dog for quite a while while silvi was recovering and i started thinking about getting fit. well it was a grand plan and a bit over ambitious. one hour in the gym, one hour jogging, two hours on the kona ph.d. followed by an hours rest, then four hours of hiking with a vertical height gain of 500 meters+ and finally one hour on the motorbike ...

yes well that lasted about two weeks. first to go was the gym. then the motorbike. then the road biking. then the hours rest. all that remained was the walking. three circuits of the footpaths in front of furtschellas was 9.6 kilometers and a long walk could be 14 kilometers from sils over fuorcla grevas and out to the julier pass.

it was on one of those long walks that i started thinking about a return to climbing ...