Sunday, 28 December 2014

A snowy end to the old year, 28 December 2014

For the final walk of 2014 LRWG headed off to Keyworth in South Nottinghamshire. Leaving Leicestershire and heading north, there was no sign of any snow - we had only had a couple of hours of it on Boxing Day which had melted before bed-time. But as we got further north we could see the white stuff appearing on the verges, then building up in the fields, and it turned out that our luck had struck again and a proper snowy walk was in prospect.


This was a very pleasant walk of 12.5 miles which was mainly flat, and in places we were walking in undisturbed snow which was several inches deep. This is what we get good walking kit for, and it was great to have the last walk of 2014 walking in a 'winter wonderland' of snow!



At the end of the walk we got to see an amazing sunset and retrieved our cars just as it was getting dark.  Thanks to Mark for leading our last walk of the year in such style...