Brookdale

Snow photos!

Tuesday 22 January, 2013

 

We didn't walk with Trevor and Dorothy this week because they wanted to go up into the hills for a snow adventure and we are rather cautious about driving (and hiking) in difficult winter conditions.  So we just set off on foot yesterday afternoon to walk up through Brookdale - hoping to get some snow photos.   We weren't disappointed.

 

We started along a slushy, slippery, muddy track but once we got up a bit higher there were varying amounts of snow on the ground.

 

I liked the fine mist amongst the trees along this track through the conifers.

About half the way up to the top gate there is a clearing where the snow was much deeper.  We stopped to admire the view across the glen.

This is a closer view of the fields at Skyhill Farm which we often pass when we walk up the Millennium Way.

We continued up the track to the top gate.  There was less snow under the overhanging conifer branches.

Further up the snow was deeper again - and more powdery.  Tim took this photo of me walking through pristine snow.  We were the first ones to venture up to the top of the plantation.

Danny doesn't think he was cut out to be a mini-husky.  He wasn't very enthusiastic about walking in deep snow.

Tim approaching the the end of the climb.

Our goal.  The gate at the top of the plantation.  The only tracks in the snow had been left by mountain hares.

North Barrule.

Close-up of the summit showing the concrete trig point.

On the way home - a glimpse of the snowless northern plain in the afternoon sunshine.