We took a rest day and after opening our bag of goodies we attempted to walk to the top of the mountain overlooking the crags. [Special thanks to Jason’s parents for the bag of goodies and to my parents for the gift that helped us get to some of these beautiful places.]
We set of at a blistering pace confusing the many Goat farmers we passed who we’re going at a more leisurely pace. Unfortunately, a few hours at the pace became too much for Jason, whose new shoes had decided to tear his feet apart. We had 2 options: turn back, or come up with some way of stopping the blisters on Jason’s feet becoming worse. 
The first idea was to try to continue wearing only his socks; it became obvious at the first stream that this wouldn’t work. So he came up with a new ‘shoe configuration’ which I cannot explain so I took a picture (he managed 7 miles and 1000m of decent so must be comfier than it looks)! We carried on up until it became obvious we weren’t going to make it to the top safely and started our decent.
That night it started to rain and we made the decision to move on to the coast and hopefully too some ‘warm rock’…
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