If you go down to the woods today....

Sadly high winds scuttled any ideas of crampons, ice axes and climbing Mt Binser today.

Sadly the wind even kept us off the summit of Mt Oxford in the foothills.

Happily we kept to the relative shelter of the beech forest with tracks of glorious mud (in places), the odd water fall, plenty of fallen trees to clamber over/under/around (recent snow) and fungi.

I'm more of an alpine/sub-alpine girl but the forest has its own beauty and it was good to be out.

My day was somewhat marred by dropping the contents of the slow cooker. What didn't hit the hard floor covered my sleep skin slippers, carpet mats and splattered the walls and my legs.

Bugger.

Best leave it there and move on methinks.