TALK TO STRANGERS

4 As Mary-Ann Ochota found out (p25), not everyone goes into the hills to be social. In fact, for many of us escaping people is a main benefit. But, if there’s one thing we’ve learned from Steve Webb of Pen-y-Pass YHA (p64), it’s got to be that, like ’em or loath ’em, people are fascinating – and behind the Gore-Tex just might be someone who could enrich your experience of the hills…