The plan was, as is a bit of a tradition with me and a couple of friends, to go winter walking in the mountains. We try and do this around February/March time each year when the conditions are hopefully cold, clear and frosty.
So we had planned for a long time that at the weekend we would travel up to the Brecon Beacons in Wales, however the weather had other ideas. The heaviest snowfall for years put a bit of a stop to that. In fact when they started closing the bridges into Wales we knew it wasn't going to happen.
So plan B, we had the train tickets (fortunately we got a refund on the cottage) so we went down to Bristol and went walking in the Mendips instead. it was good if hard work with wading thru snow drifts. We took in Beacon Batch the highest point at a modest 325 metres above sea level (not quite the Brecons!) and the Rock of Ages, made famous in the hymn of the same name.
The knees didn't half ache the day after.
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