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REPORTS |
There was snow on the ground and it was cold although the wind chill was not as bad as it could have been and, since this walk was not far north of Stamford, altitude did not add to the adverse temperature factors. It appears that our lady walkers are the most fair weather ones, as for a change we had more men than women.
Walking in the snow introduces additional navigation difficulties as you can not see the footpaths under the snow. So Alan was grateful that gadget man Rob was there with his 1:25,000 scale GPS maps. In one place just before lunch, although we knew we were in the right place, there was no obvious crossing point of quite a deep ditch and then we had to crawl through a gap in the hedge to reach a footpath marker.
Whilst tramping across the Lincolnshire fields, we disturbed numerous hares who stood up as they heard us and then proceeded to scarper across the snow covered fields.
For the second walk running we saw a Red Kite soaring not far away.
As we sat in a sheltered spot for lunch, it started to snow. “How many times have we had a picnic in the snow?” we asked.
Body temperatures soon started to drop in the cold weather and we had to move on to keep warm. Progress overall was good and we were in front of a lovely open fire in the pub in Castle Bytham by 2:30pm.
Snow walks are always memorable and this was no different.
Report – Alan
Pictures – Alan
Walk rating – Good because of the weather
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