There is nothing like a career in offices and board rooms to give one a real and intense appreciation of the outdoors. So it was with me; following many years working for various charities and the NHS in the end I accepted that outdoors and sometimes wet was much better than indoors and usually bored. I now split my time between the Antrim Hills and the more rugged terrain of Donegal’s mountain ranges, though I have hiked in every county in Ireland and completed a number of the island’s long distance trails.