After a long, dark winter, spring’s warmer weather and longer days kindle a new motivation to get out in the hills and mountains for a hike. I do hike through the winter but this is much more weather dependent and frequently I find myself on lower-level trails and smaller hills.
Come springtime, I start planning longer adventures to more remote places and usually with plenty of higher summits. I live in Scotland, though, where the tallest mountain Ben Nevis – also the UK’s highest peak – is 1,345 metres, so higher altitude for me might not be the same for people living in other countries.
