The first snow of winter over the Belgian Ardennes appeared last week. Today everything is melting away again. Luckily I found the time to make a dayhike on the Hautes Fagnes before the thaw set in, snowshoeing on the plateau and hiking on trailrunners on the snow in the Rur valley where the snow was only a thin cover. Beside a lot of people seem to have visited the area last weekend, I was breaking my own trail on virgin like snow deeper on the plateau. No single other hiker crossed my path. So I like it best.
Snowshoeing on the Brackvenn.
Descending to Monschau along the stream Klein Lauf.
The Rur river upstream from Monschau.
I retrieved my ‘slow-shoes’ from the basement the other day for a day hike. Then I got sick. Then it thawed. Maybe I should put the snow shoes away again. I’ve only managed to wear them once! http://thunderinthenight.blogspot.com/2010/12/like-kid-at-christmas.html
My snowshoes remain in the basement, not even a hint of snow deep enough to hide the grass, maybe next year.
No snow on the west-coast either. Bah.
The only snow I have seen in England this winter wasn’t deep enough for my snow-shoes, not like last winter – perfect conditions !