Today, after a visit to Ballater, our son aged 4 and a bit, climbed his first winter hill - Craigendinnie (1250ft) near Aboyne, just off the Fungle path to Tarfside. Stunning day with wall to wall blue skies and deep powdery snow - knee deep in bits for 1 metre tall midgets. He handled it well with only minor strops at the really steep bits and when we wouldn't let him do the map reading by himself. It took him 2 hours and 15 minutes to get up and down bless 'im :) Yes, we know its not exactly a 4000ft'er but he has to start somewhere and from small acorns do world class alpinists grow...
Theres not much to say really. Its a lovely walk, the views are spectacular and it was nice to do something with N and Jnr. We are, as most doting parents would be, hugely proud of him and have now bought him mini crampons, axes, a full rack and have plans for something on Lochnagar next weekend.
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