Birthday Walks Photograph Gallery
As a present to myself, I'd planned two days of walks in the Lakes. The forecast was for cloud and rain but fortunately, the weather was glorious.
This picture (featuring a vaguely camp pose) was taken on what turned out to be the wrong path to the top of Coniston Old Man. Even so, it was a fantastic birthday.
The snow had been around for a couple of days and had developed an icy crust that gave a lovely sheen in the sunlight.
One of the great things this winter has been the snowy walks well into March. At the start of the walk it doesn't take very long before you feel like you've got away from everything and almost everybody.
Despite the way it looks, I don't suffer from rickets.
Wainwright grumbles that fancy handbags and painted toe-nails were as common up here as real walkers.
I didn't see any, but maybe that was more down to the weather.
Taken on Day 2 of the birthday walks - somewhere on the Fairfield Horseshoe, not far from Great Rigg.
The snow made the going quite tough at times, but made the walk all the better for it.
I think the water in the middle distance is Grasmere with the Coniston Fells in the distance.
The wind caused this strange-looking icy build-up on everything exposed to it.
This cairn was not far from either Hart Crag or Dove Crag.