Organising the walk.....

So the challenge choice had been made. It was now time to assemble the team. There were some obvious choices, the lads I normally cave with and the team that did Pen Y Ffan. But I knew that my Dad would want to do it plus other members of the family too. So I have found that in the last few weeks that more and more people have said that they want to join.

This left me in a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand we want to raise as much money as possible but in on the other hand I had to make sure all who came were physically fit enough to do the trip, have the equipment to sensibly camp out for two nights and also tackle a tough walk. More people would also mean more for me to manage as organiser.

As the group got bigger it became apparent that it would be possible now to split into two teams. Those who wanted could go do the challenging (both physically and mentally) Crib Goch traverse if the weather would allow and those not wanting to do that could continue up the long,steep and winding Pyg track. We should be able to keep in touch using radio's quite easily to allow us to meet at a pre arranged point where the two paths converge. This way people of different fitness levels could all be catered for if necessary.


The Crib Goch Traverse

So I sent out e-mails to those people I had in mind and spoke to the others who showed interest. I finally ended up with a list of names of about a dozen people. A nice surprise was that a member of the Christies PMP forum -Steve (or "Bumper" as he is known on the forum) also asked if he could join us? I agreed it would be good to meet a fellow PMP sufferer and I knew Steve had previously done Snowdon. Steve is raising funds for the other UK specialist centre the Christies Hospital in Manchester. So it meant that we would be covering both hospitals with the one event and that PMP patients nationwide will benefit from the proceeds. A fantastic plan was slowly coming together.

I trawled the web for a campsite and have found a nice site, fairly basic but with all the facilities we need. Its a working farm only 5 minutes walk from Llanberis and would add to the weekend in the wilds atmosphere. I only hope the weather is good.

So we are pretty much set to go. The team almost finalised, the blog live, sponsor forms issued and the Just Giving site set up. Sponsorship is already coming in on the web and pledges being taken on the sponsor forms. I have only really spoken to one of the team members so far but I know he has over £100 raised already in hardley a week!

Dig deep folks its a great cause.......