The cold weather remains and there is still some lingering snow from the fall on Monday night. It really only remains in the shade but with the sun so low in the sky there is a lot of shade.

It was dry though, so I had a pleasant walk being well wrapped up against the cold. It is very quiet up the Mountain at this time of year – there are very few birds about apart from the odd wood-pigeon making its presence felt. One species of gorse seems to be having a bit of a think about flowering despite the recent cold weather.

It was very pleasant to get out for a loop in such fine weather. I ended up taking the longer of the two loops. I didn’t see very much of the dogs after letting them off the lead but they must have come across something along the paved bit of the lane as they both came running back to me and were reluctant to continue on alone.

71km