Until Thursday, it was all just talk.
I had planned to resign on Friday but discovered at about 16:00 on Thursday that my boss, Andy, was having Friday off, so when he came out of his meeting I took him into a room and gave him the news.
He said he’d known it was coming, but hadn’t expected it this soon. With a three month notice period I didn’t have much choice though, as the plan is to start the HRP at the beginning of June.
Training for the Pyrenees has begun! Pete Smith and I spent the weekend in Snowdonia, where we hoped to climb some of the Welsh 3000s, but the weather was much worse than forecast and we never actually made a summit.
The plan had been to start with Tryfan, head along the Glyders, then even consider taking in Snowdon before heading back to camp on the Glyders. Unfortunately the scramble up the north face of Tryfan took way longer than expected, and ultimately ended in failure: we met various groups who’d given up at a steep snowy gully, and when we went round to have a look we decided they’d made the right decision.