Wintry on the hills
We had an "interesting" walk
on Monday. Occasional showers had been predicted - "wintry on the
hills" - and we ended up walking through a combination of cloud, rain,
sleet and snow!
We started from the Brandywell
Road
By the time we were half way up the hill, the
Colden clouds had drifted north, were passing over Sartfell, and there was a
shower of snow. Perhaps I should have adjusted the shutter speed on
my camera - because the falling snow flakes looked like white lines instead of
flakes in my photos - but the light probably wasn’t good enough for a faster setting. Poor little Danny was sprinkled with small flakes.
The sleety snow shower ended as we reached the summit and
Trevor claimed that the walk was killing his cold. He wanted to
continue up Freoaghane! It was very wet underfoot, the peat was oozing
water.
The out of focus, white blob in the next photo is one of
our mountain hares. Unfortunately (for
him) there wasn’t enough snow for his camouflage to be effective. There seldom is, but they keep donning their
white coats every winter.
It was too cold and windy on top of Freoaghane to
stop for refreshments so we headed down the hill towards an old quarry on the
side of the hill where we would be sheltered from the wind.
Unfortunately the next wintry shower arrived as we
reached the quarry - and this one was serious. So we gave up and headed back
towards the cars through the snow and sleet.
As we drove through Sulby on the way home, I
photographed a rainbow through the car window.
And, when we arrived back in the glen, the sun was
shining and it was hard to believe that it had been so bleak up in the
hills. It isn't surprising that "changeable" is a favourite word of the local weather forecasters.
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