Enjoyed another bimble out over the South Downs with Hugo & Rockmonkey today, day started off with a few snow flurries in the air, but in the main around home the snow had all but gone, but we soon found some when we got to the woods
bit of an abrupt stop for a local sledger
Looking down the first of many Coombes we visited today
Hugo doing his cross country skiing, forgot his skis though
Looking up slope towards our first brew stop of the day
Up at the top now and enjoying the vista
Looking back down what we had just walked up, we found three or four broken plastic sledges that had just been dumped waiting for someone else to go and get them, unfortunately, they were all too far gone otherwise, yes we would have used them
I think they had an argument
All friends again and a rare photo of me.
Erm, it's a woodpile
brew over it was time to head up slope again
I found this quite funny
Getting into some glorious winter scenery now
Looks like they made up
onwards and upwards
past the Beech Tree
The snow also gave us a grand display of animal tracks to record and follow
Nearing the top of the path now
Heading along the top of the hill
We are not the only animals to use the path this morning
At the top now
Time to get back into the woodland
Great tree to utilise for a shelter
Very pretty
More badger tracks, very fresh too
Lunch time, mine, Monkey Boy stove
Rockmonkey's
Lunch over and another brew had, it was time to carry on through the woods
Very difficult to see the line between sky & earth at times
back down the drovers track
where old numbnuts here fell base over apex in exactly the same place as Hugo did last week, mind you i got to make a snow angel in the lovely soft snow
Deer tracks
Loads of tracks here
time for another brew and then head down slope to the bottom of the hill
and then head out on the homeward stretch up over that thar hill
where we had been all day
looking out over the Weald
then the last bit before finally coming down off the hill and back to the cars.
great day out again, made a really nice change to walk these hills in the snow, it was in the ice last week and probably in the mud next week, still you have be out there in all weathers and seasons to really appreciate it all.
Roll on next week.
bit of an abrupt stop for a local sledger
Looking down the first of many Coombes we visited today
Hugo doing his cross country skiing, forgot his skis though
Looking up slope towards our first brew stop of the day
Up at the top now and enjoying the vista
Looking back down what we had just walked up, we found three or four broken plastic sledges that had just been dumped waiting for someone else to go and get them, unfortunately, they were all too far gone otherwise, yes we would have used them
I think they had an argument
All friends again and a rare photo of me.
Erm, it's a woodpile
brew over it was time to head up slope again
I found this quite funny
Getting into some glorious winter scenery now
Looks like they made up
onwards and upwards
past the Beech Tree
The snow also gave us a grand display of animal tracks to record and follow
Nearing the top of the path now
Heading along the top of the hill
We are not the only animals to use the path this morning
At the top now
Time to get back into the woodland
Great tree to utilise for a shelter
Very pretty
More badger tracks, very fresh too
Lunch time, mine, Monkey Boy stove
Rockmonkey's
Lunch over and another brew had, it was time to carry on through the woods
Very difficult to see the line between sky & earth at times
back down the drovers track
where old numbnuts here fell base over apex in exactly the same place as Hugo did last week, mind you i got to make a snow angel in the lovely soft snow
Deer tracks
Loads of tracks here
time for another brew and then head down slope to the bottom of the hill
and then head out on the homeward stretch up over that thar hill
where we had been all day
looking out over the Weald
then the last bit before finally coming down off the hill and back to the cars.
great day out again, made a really nice change to walk these hills in the snow, it was in the ice last week and probably in the mud next week, still you have be out there in all weathers and seasons to really appreciate it all.
Roll on next week.
