What A Walk Today

The walk out of Villafranca came to a decision-point.
To the left a trio of mountains, up and down 400m each, taking some 20km.
Straight ahead, the path along a major road.
To the right, one mountain, approx 500m up and down over about 10km, tough going, but no road and only one mountain.
The first kilometer, we must have climbed about 300m, very tough going, what the *%#¥ had we got ourselves into. Still, Compass was like a greyhound out of a gate, or rather a rat up a drainpipe, climbing like he was on the Kokoda Track! The more seasoned of us, just plodded on....a bit like the tortoise and the hare....(TL)

Two of the "tortoises", with the third taking the photo -about 300m along the track.