Agree emphatically with previous replies: better too warm than too cold if you want to sleep soundly. And I also find I feel the cold more when tired at the end of a day's walking than I would at home.

On a different tack, my favourite sleep aid (as some of you will be tired of hearing) is a tiny, virtually weightless thin fleece pillowslip. Gone are the nights of waking up with the clothing I was using for pillow all scrunched in lumps & spread everywhere.....or my head repeatedly slipping off a stuffsack full of clothes becasue of the shiny cold fabric. I've had this precious trifle for many years and can't remember where I bought it!

Don't forget the Frying Pan and all the accessories like last time :)

Hey Bob, I hope that's not directed at me! Never fried anything on a Challenge.....eating is kept as simple and light as poss.

But I'm still taking the super down pullover I bought from you may years ago: my daughter borrowed it recently for a camping weekend around ben Alder and was equally impressed.

Ha ha won't be forgetting that, how are you Bob nice to hear from you?

Good thanks. I'll look forward to a follow up chat all these years later and you can tell me all about your approach this year :)

No Jean it was directed at Stefan. The last time I met him walking up the Corrieyairack Pass, Terry was laughing at him as he was complaining about the weight of all his gear, which included a frying pan, dinner jacket, a foot spa and a dutch oven I seem to remember (or something like that)

Happy days :)