Snow!
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Kim said:
I'm in the east of Brum but work in the centre. It's pathetic! We've had no snow to speak of...it'll start, stop, start, stop and it never settles. I want proer snow like we used to have when I were a lad...
Wasn't it a beeeeautiful day? A friend and I were out in the snow all afternoon, collected birch bark from some fallen trees down the Castle policies and played at starting fires...AHEM! well really we were practicing our fire lighting techniques in inclement weather conditions.... 
Home to hot chocolate and snowballs (Tunnock's that is)
Toddy
Home to hot chocolate and snowballs (Tunnock's that is)
Toddy
Still snowing here, should be fun, just bout leave for a 14imiles walk, should be fun!! Will post piccies tomorrow!!
Have just returned, no pictures worthy of posting, took 3, when we arrived in the peaks (burbage to be precise) there were 30mph winds blowing ice, much like being sandblasted. Also a few waist high snow drift into which i managed fall, and pretty much a white out at one point!!
All in all a fantastic evening!!
All in all a fantastic evening!!
WOW!!! i am in teh south and the snow down here is like an icing sugar dusted on a cake. patheic! also it only last for 1 hour after sunrise on the ground!!
Head for the hills young PH. I spent the afternoon up on the downs yesterday, where it stayed sub-zero all day and snowed continuously. ):
I suppose the most "Bushcrafty" thing I did was make a brew, whereas before I would have taken a flask :chill:
Still, it meant that I got a few strange looks from the dog-walkers, me sitting under a hawthorn supping from a cup with the billy boiling away in the middle of a blizzard!!
Cheers,
Martin
): I suppose the most "Bushcrafty" thing I did was make a brew, whereas before I would have taken a flask :chill:
Still, it meant that I got a few strange looks from the dog-walkers, me sitting under a hawthorn supping from a cup with the billy boiling away in the middle of a blizzard!!
Cheers,
Martin
HUH 
We got a bit but it melted before I could play :shock:
They promised us a good fall last night but it seems to have gone elsewhere :roll:
We got a bit but it melted before I could play :shock:
They promised us a good fall last night but it seems to have gone elsewhere :roll:
day off tommorrow-going to local wood to play and check for badger tracks.found the sett in summer and it had all the signs apart from actual badgers. so will try one last time with this reasonable(for the past couple of years at least) snowfall tracks should be obvious even to me.......
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digbum
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Camped out in the snow for the first time ever last night!
Stayed in a field near Tideswell (in the peak district) that had the frozen remains of last weeks snow in plentifull supply -knee deep in places. Had some snowy showers in the early evening but after about twelve pm the sky cleared and the stars came out, which was just beautiful. The temperature went down to about -5 but managed to fend off hypothermia with a roaring fire and copious ammounts of antifreeze / beer.
Next time i want to do it without a tent so i can see the sky from bed, and not risk burning meself to death by having the fire near the sleeping area. Gonna look on evilbay for a bivvy bag right now!!!
:chill:
Stayed in a field near Tideswell (in the peak district) that had the frozen remains of last weeks snow in plentifull supply -knee deep in places. Had some snowy showers in the early evening but after about twelve pm the sky cleared and the stars came out, which was just beautiful. The temperature went down to about -5 but managed to fend off hypothermia with a roaring fire and copious ammounts of antifreeze / beer.
Next time i want to do it without a tent so i can see the sky from bed, and not risk burning meself to death by having the fire near the sleeping area. Gonna look on evilbay for a bivvy bag right now!!!
:chill:
