Fitness Note

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It should be noted that all strenuous routes will require a good pace to be maintained of around 4km/h.

The distances and difficulty are for guidance only, if you have any queries about the walks or indeed any other matter please contact the organisers.  We have tried to grade the walks to give you a good guide to the conditions and hence level of effort required for each walk.  They have been based on Naismith's rule.  We have also varied the programme so that you can have interesting walks of varied levels of difficulty on successive days.

Easy indicates a short distance and little ascending/descending on good ground for up to 2 or 3 hours,  or distances up to 10km/6 miles on relatively level ground.

Moderate indicates distances up to 13km/8miles ascending a total of approx 400m or 1200ft across good ground or tracks, with a duration of between 2 to 5 hours.

Strenuous indicates distances up to 16km/10miles, ascending approx 400m/1200ft across varied ground, with a duration of approx 5 to 6 hours.

Very Strenuous indicates distances over 16km/10miles ascending to 900m above sea level and higher across rough ground, with a duration of 8 to 10 hours.

Extremely Strenuous indicates distances over 20km/12miles ascending in excess of 1000m across rough ground, with a duration of over 8 hours, and will expect a pace of at least 4 km/h to be maintained for a long duration by the group and ascending at around 45 secs for every 10m.

Varied ground may include some heather, peat hags, bogs, boulder fields, scree and/or river crossing (though not necessarily all).  Rough ground will include significant distances in these conditions.

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