For PP, if you have the skills for alchemy you might want to start planting and drying roses; you can also try to find Those Rarefied Thorn Bush Flowers by picking all the thorn bushes you can find (you can add them to your radar for comfort).
Although back on the mountain stuff, the Family statue mountain is not only pretty safe to wander to and on
(my friends and I went there quite several times now and never had a single chase even started, sorry Claeyt and your hopes), but you also might want to use it as much as you can, so it has a double use for you

(yeah cause at one point your char will be dead and you'll surely want to make a good char back on providence or at least have the possibility to do so.)