hooter2014 wrote:rabthecairnterrier wrote:Living in the Highlands I'd have trouble staying away.
With something like 500 square miles of empty land (quite literally) on the doorstep I won't be putting anyone else at risk by not confining myself indoors.
Maybe not, unless you injure yourself to the point of needing rescue, requiring others to do it.
The hills will be there in a few weeks.
#StayHomeNow
Let's see now - Mountain Leader, thirty years experience of applying formal risk assessment procedures to outdoor activities, strolling up an obscure 1700ft featureless heathery lump he can see from his armchair- no crags, steep slopes or other objective dangers - that he's climbed maybe a couple of hundred times before. Compare with with staying home and falling off a stepladder when painting the ceiling instead, or having an RTA when driving to Tain or Dingwall or Inverness for some essential shopping. (No MRT but I'm sure the paramedics would have better things to do.)
Objective risk assessment? Realistic chances of needing to be rescued?