My wife and I are preparing for a trip to Peru in December where we'll be hiking the Inca Trail. We've never done this before but have been told to expect tough terrain along with the effects of high altitude.
It's hard to train for high altitude in Australia but we can definitely prepare ourselves for challenging terrain. So for the next few months we'll be spending a lot of time at the 1000 Steps in the Dandenong Ranges which are on the eastern side of Melbourne. It's an extremely beautiful place which makes the exhausting climb a lot more bearable.
Today we did 3 laps of the steps, and plan to increase this number by 1 every time we visit (until the number becomes completely unreasonable that is). And once we're doing the steps comfortably, we'll be wearing weighted vests for the climb (I wonder how my knees will handle this...). It's fantastic training, but generally results in us falling in a heap on the ground afterwards.
If you live in Melbourne and are up for a challenge, hit me up and I'll do the steps with you!
!steemitworldmap -37.8891775 lat 145.3173835 long 1000 Steps - Dandenong Ranges D3SCR
