Show us your Christmas walks & rides….

gwahn, what have your Christmas wanders and pootles looked like? In addition to some local wanderings with inlaws, we managed a small hill today 8)
Who has been out in the snow/sun/wind/cold/wet/who cares…..?

Been a beautiful day here today, 8km walk round Hardwick

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20 mile ride around Nan Bield yesterday
10153692_10152994270731474_6633101099459015474_n by Richard Munro[/url], on Flickr

7km walk along the local river today!
10888798_10152997407226474_5041860459713936050_n by Richard Munro[/url], on Flickr

10891595_10152997407281474_4608438981759472680_n by Richard Munro[/url], on Flickr

We had a beautiful walk from home. Within half an hour the snow was getting quite deep.
Such fun.
Blue sky and fabulous views over to Kinder Scout.

Lunch in a local pub and a stead amble back, mostly downhill.

Perfect day.

Meall Leathan Dhail by matt_outandabout[/url], on Flickr

Ingleborough Boxing Day
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Ingleborough today
[/url]On final slope by Pennine[/url], on Flickr[/img]

On the beach today.

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Inshriach Forest, Cairngorms

Done over 25miles every day including Christmas Day. Today was one of the highlights of the year. Wandering around the Ridgeway/Wallingford/Wittenham/Blewbury area.
Wet and slippery on the south facing slopes and hard/frozen on the north facing slopes. Made my best mud angel yet by racing into the shadows after being in the sun and was quite surprised by a deep hole full of mud…
So many nice sights today from steaming livestock to frozen ponds.
After being covered in mud and then washed in muddy puddles and then the cycle repeated the bike is now making very strange sounds from the brakes.

Oscar’s first swim and snow

Got him in eventually and he loved it despite the temperature

Needs to learn to jump properly though

It was beautiful

Then to The Bridges to warm up and dry out

Oscar FTW! Mega envious of the countryside some of you live in…

Oh I don’t live there, that’s the Long Mynd/Church Stretton/Carding Mill valley. About 45 mins on a good run from me. Miss Houns and I have plans to move that way though.

Oh and thanks,

Christmas Eve.

Boxing Day.

Today.

A lively fresh local ride today, managed 18 miles from the front door by ‘exploring’

Harden Moor this morning

Didn’t expect to happen upon these in December.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Day

Boxing day involved riding around looking for a shop to replace a broken spoke after mine broke less than a mile into the ride.

Saturday

Yesterday

^That sign is pretty awesome!

My addition is on the sign (Mt Fromme, North Shore):

^that pic puts a smile on my face…
Some ace pics, keep em coming…

Seals on the south devon coast, Boxing Day

Seals

New bike for christmas (silver early rider)..

Xmas day on the beach near Dundee
Tentsmuir beach by 10000 rivets[/url], on Flickr

Boxing day on the Sidlaws for a ride
View WSW from Sidlaws by 10000 rivets[/url], on Flickr

Yesterday up Corrie Fee from Glen Clova onto Mayar
View SW from Mayar by 10000 rivets[/url], on Flickr

A rather pleasant break all round!

My days out are normally runs so I dont carry a camera.
Took this handsome little fellow out on his first hilly run around the Clwydians (he is 14 1/2 months old) and he loved it 🙂

Surfer what type of harness is it your dog is wearing ?

Our Christmas morning ritual is a visit to a local grey seal colony to see the pups. This years sunrise was pretty spectacular.

Horsey Sunrise by Andy Kahumbu[/url], on Flickr

Here’s one of the 685 new pups this year.

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Chrissy morning swim – well for the dogs – on a fat bike shock horror not near a beach/snow.

Boxing Day at Russan

Watching the clouds blow off Blencathra

Spring has arrived in Geltsdale

Disappointing lack of activity for most of the Christmas week, but made up for it yesterday with a fab snowy ride on the single speed in the morning…

Roaches snowy ride with Paul – 4 by stilltortoise[/url], on Flickr

…then after a lovely Sunday roast I went out with the family for a walk at the Roaches…

Staffordshire sunset by stilltortoise[/url], on Flickr

Been housebound and mostly deaf since Xmas eve with a perforated eardrum and ear infections! But got up this morning to another gorgeous morning and thought I couldn’t waste it. So headed up to the local fell and had a wander around for an hour or so with the girlfriend.

How the dickens do you get them to appear the right way up?!

Xmas Eve
P1120731 by SGMTB[/url], on Flickr

Severn Bridge Rainbow by SGMTB[/url], on Flickr

Xmas eve for me so no snow. Bit of an obligatory photo for the location

Up at Llyn y Fan Fach today. Was epic.

Moon and ant-people over Picws Du

Today.

Stroll up the Wrekin today with Oscar for the sunset. The little git pulling me made descended the ice covered track difficult

@ranoodog

Sorry only just noticed your post. Its a Ruffwear. Not the cheapest but well made. We keep him quite short but find his undercarriage is always wet and dirty so picking him up meant you got filthy and wet and this has a handle at the top so you can pick him up like a bag 🙂 plus I wanted something that I could lift him over gates/stiles/steep bits when we are out in the hills.
He wears a collar normally but when h comes running I put the harness on and he gets very excited when he sees it!!

Heres a couple from a Wintery ride up the Lammermuir Hills and a trip to the local Bmx Park with my son.