Walking: Proper snow (24/365)
Jan. 24th, 2021 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
white_hartThe forecast for this morning was for heavy snow, but given that forecast snow usually doesn't translate into actual snow I was still quite surprised when I got up and found that there was an inch or so on the ground and it was still snowing. Sadly, while I had been really excited about the prospect of swimming in the snow, I realised that I really didn't want to drive 11 miles each way in the snow to do it*, and went for a walk instead.
It was very pretty, even if (unsurprisingly) there were an awful lot of people around also enjoying the novelty of the snow, and the canal bridges were already a bit nerve-wracking where the snow had been trodden down. I think I'll be wearing my Yaktrax and taking my trekking poles when I go out tomorrow morning.
*This is south-east England; roads are gritted, not ploughed, and no-one has winter tyres because we only get more than a few millimetres of snow once every two years, if that, so driving in snow is not really a sensible thing for anyone in an ordinary car to attempt.
It was very pretty, even if (unsurprisingly) there were an awful lot of people around also enjoying the novelty of the snow, and the canal bridges were already a bit nerve-wracking where the snow had been trodden down. I think I'll be wearing my Yaktrax and taking my trekking poles when I go out tomorrow morning.
*This is south-east England; roads are gritted, not ploughed, and no-one has winter tyres because we only get more than a few millimetres of snow once every two years, if that, so driving in snow is not really a sensible thing for anyone in an ordinary car to attempt.
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Date: 2021-01-25 10:02 am (UTC)We live on a narrow, steep hill and yesterday brought out the best of idiots driving like idiots in the snow!
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Date: 2021-01-25 01:21 pm (UTC)