Last Friday night, Andrew – my middle son – and I headed off for Glen Doll, the most dramatic of the Angus Glens. We arrived there after 9pm and, of course, it was pitch black by that time. We put on our head torches and started off on the track leading to the Kilbo Path and, ultimately, to the top of Dreish, the higher of the two Munros in the area. We got there at about 11.30pm. As we got into our sleeping bags and bivi bags, and settled down in the shelter of the cairn, the thin clouds began to disperse and we were treated to quite the most bright, starlit sky and, in the early morning, a sunrise of stunning colours, beautiful beyond description.
You don’t get moments like that by staying in and watching TV!! In an age when children are often wrapped up in cotton wool, there must be some outlet for their innate need for adventure. Can a night on the Wii really satisfy that need?
Life is either staying in the same place or going on adventures.
I’m going to keep on trying to make sure that my kids get their fill of mountain top moments, hopefully to fuel within them an ever greater desire to step out of the mundane into the life that is, in every way, less ordinary.