The Best Christmas I ever had was in the lakes
It was 2003 and I teamed up with a good friend who is a Mountain Instructor and spent the days climbing up frozen buttresses, scraping the paint off of my brand new crampons. However as a real treat on Christmas Day we went and found a bothy and got there at sun set. The ground was covered in snow and the toilet was a shovel and pit affair, which is quite hard when the ground is frozen. We cooked our food on our little gas stoves and snuggled down in front of a peat block fire. I have never had a more peaceful and relaxing time than that night in a bothy in the Lake District. I love being in the mountains.
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