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My 25 Best Adventures // Emily Pitts
January 1, 2017
Sometimes the best adventures are the small ones or the unplanned ones or the ones that aren’t even meant to be adventures. Adventures don’t have to be in ‘the outdoors’, they can be expeditions of the mind, to new places, exploring different kinds of thinking. At Women Climb we’ve been reflecting on what our most interesting adventures have been. Here it’s Emily Pitts’ turn to list her best adventures, in no particular order:
- Went camping for the first time aged 31
- Stayed in a camping barn in the Lake District on my own
- Took my daughter camping with her friend, on my own, when I wasn’t an experienced camper
- Bivvied out in the lakes – with people I had never met, on my first meet with the KMC
- Walked to the summit of Snowdon via crib Goch witb a great group from KMC
- Summited Ben Nevis via the CMD arête, solo
- Stayed in a camping pod in Wasdale, Lake District – really good fun
- Went to the top of kinder with daughter Jasmine, aged 9
- Roller skated across the Netherlands, for less than £10 a day
- Went on a school ski trip and fell in love with mountains and snow
- Went climbing trees with my friend Natasha
- Protested the Iraq war, in Manchester
- Cycled to dance lessons and back for a whole summer, aged 14
- Went running training on a Friday night into Manchester city centre
- Trekked Kilimanjaro: this was the hardest physical and mental thing I’ve done
- Ran a marathon distance, very slowly (with Emma Timmis, in Mozambique)
- Went on a midnight date in the middle of winter in a country park, with a flask of hot chocolate
- A 4.5km recovery walk with mum and child on Bleaklow, in the Peak District
- Learnt to ride a horse
- Ran a 10k
- Explored the slate quarries in Llanberis
- Went self employed – a scary step with a young child to look after
- Ran a half marathon
- Took Jasmine to the Alps for a fortnight camping, on the sleeper train
- Took a sailing lesson and loved it
- Went on a climbing adventure to the isle of Skye
- Took a 3am ride on a ski-slope piste basher
Ok, so it’s 27, not 25, but you get the idea.
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