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 Consider how group members or passers by can best be deployed, and how the equipment carried by the group can best be redistributed and utilised.

 Consider ‘alternative’ uses for the equipment you are carrying, for example camera flashes can be used to attract attention in the dark, a rope laid out along the ground will maximise your chances of being located in poor visibility, and a survival bag can be used for attracting attention.

 The standard distress signal is six sharp whistle blasts (or torch flashes) followed by a one minute silence, repeated.

 Don’t lose touch with common sense when coming to any decisions!

Pen y Gadair from Cyfrwy (Walk 36)

Before you start

What to wear

Someone once said: ‘There’s no such thing as bad weather, just inadequate clothing.’ Well, as everyone knows, there is such a thing as bad weather, sometimes so bad that no amount of clothing will prove adequate. But the anonymous optimist makes a fair point, and, unless you aspire to being no more than a fair weather walker, then going adequately and suitably clothed facilitates walking regardless of all but the most severe weather conditions. Regular walkers will talk at length (usually in a bar), about days spent in the hills battling wind and rain; it’s a circumstance that breeds its own delightful perversity, a dash of self-esteem at having coped safely with a bad weather day, an exhilaration that is often breathtaking in more ways than one. Let’s face it, if you have to wait for the sun to shine before venturing out, you may never begin.