I got back last night from a week away in the Dolomites in Italy. Spent a day on Lake Garda at either end of some hard walking in the mountains. Knackering stuff. On one day we ascended a steep scree slope which gained us 1000m of altitude in the one climb. It was real take two steps, take two breaths, slide back a bit, focus on the next step stuff. Various clip–on antics on some via ferrata also.