WINTER'S OFFICIAL

[Gross]

Winter is officially arrived:) Time to put the studs on the car:)

[PorkyFatBoy]

Dunno what you mean Gross, I had a lovely run along the Thames from the wobbly bridge to Big Ben and back in the sun, 17 degrees, very gentle breeze, too hot for a t-shirt really (should have worn a singlet, but I'd left it at home as it's November)

[Adventure Racer]

Hmm, thinks, where would I rather be? With PFB in the middle of a huge metropolis, or somewhere with snow?

[Roger]

Hmm, thinks, where would I rather be? With PFB in the middle of a huge metropolis, or somewhere with snow?

Neither -- I was quite content bowling along the Ridgeway with the breeze on my back and the sun on my cheek. (But I did think that I should have worn a running vest instead of a T-shirt.)

[Gross]

No such luck!! Hat, gloves, thermals & wetsuit socks as day time highs forecast at -2 and snow:) Vilnius Hash introduces 'Winter Rules' this weekend:)

[PorkyFatBoy]

With PFB in the middle of a huge metropolis,

but I escape every night to the country and actually live further north than Malvern in the hope of catching some snow!

[Adventure Racer]

With PFB in the middle of a huge metropolis,

but I escape every night to the country and actually live further north than Malvern in the hope of catching some snow!

I'll have you know I got two days of skiing in Malvern last season

[Copepod]

I'm hoping to another northern hemisphere winter when I can ski to work just outside Cambridge at least once, while my partner, working in Antarctic summer doesn't have time to get out on skis all season!

[Godders]

No such luck!! Hat, gloves, thermals & wetsuit socks as day time highs forecast at -2 and snow:) Vilnius Hash introduces 'Winter Rules' this weekend:)

Surely that should read full wet suit for when you fall through the ice into the river

[Kitch]

Vilnius Hash introduces 'Winter Rules' this weekend:)

hmmm...chalk / flour aren't really going to work...
so is it blood ?

[Domhnull Mor]

-7oC and a good couple of centimetres snow in the woods when we went running yesterday morning. The lakes are freezing over and they've got the snow machines going at the ski stadium. Looks like we'll have the skates and skis out by the end of the week.

[Ravinous]

Hashing in snow - most effective (as used at my mother hash - Stockholm HHH) is to buy some cheap powder paint - red is what I used to buy, and mix it into your bags of flour. You tend to get pink blobs with this, but any (partial) melting of snow/ice tends to deepen the colour which is good. If you lay your trail much in advance, the colour, again, tends only to get deeper and thus be more visible - as long as it doesnt snow in the meantime!
In the forest, I can recommend using loo-roll - a sheet on a branch can be pretty visible.

[Roger]

In the forest, I can recommend using loo-roll ...

Yes, those conifer branches can be a bit scratchy.
(sorry, couldn't resist that one)

[SIman]

Today in Deeside it was definitely wintry. Not pleasant running into the snow on the open moorland, but the tracks through the heather showed up nicely. Not sure about elephants, Yeti?
Thanks Hilary and crew. Hope you thaw out soon.