{"id":12682,"date":"2009-12-25T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kpstaged.apps-1and1.net\/2009\/12\/25\/a-walk-in-the-snow\/"},"modified":"2009-12-25T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T20:04:00","slug":"a-walk-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/2009\/12\/25\/a-walk-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"A walk in the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, we dragged ourselves out of bed at a ridiculous time for a Christmas day morning and were out the door for 9 o&#8217;clock, eek! By the end of the walk some 7 hours later I looked and felt a bit pooped, Shona as usual was fine  and still &#8216;Tigger-bouncy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_JZjlkqG9o40\/SzUbwGKZooI\/AAAAAAAAAIk\/Ff8aV5wcMAI\/s1600-h\/Photo00073.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 240px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_JZjlkqG9o40\/SzUbwGKZooI\/AAAAAAAAAIk\/Ff8aV5wcMAI\/s320\/Photo00073.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419268239712166530\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We stumbled across a huge flock of geese snuffling around in the snow for some mid flight food. They could have just been killing time though as no-one would want to fly in the pea souper the day had become. It had started out full of blue sky promise but rapidly deteriorated.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_JZjlkqG9o40\/SzUbiSPWk5I\/AAAAAAAAAIc\/G2zBEM5YV10\/s1600-h\/Photo00071.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 240px\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_JZjlkqG9o40\/SzUbiSPWk5I\/AAAAAAAAAIc\/G2zBEM5YV10\/s320\/Photo00071.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419268002435994514\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A smackerel of lunch was provided by Jetboil Inc and Knorr Soups Unlimited washing down several large slices of Barm Brack, yum.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_JZjlkqG9o40\/SzUbaDB0JHI\/AAAAAAAAAIU\/7L31o0zLgzA\/s1600-h\/Photo00070.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 240px\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_JZjlkqG9o40\/SzUbaDB0JHI\/AAAAAAAAAIU\/7L31o0zLgzA\/s320\/Photo00070.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419267860913726578\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>More scenes of Northern Snowiness. Its really is quite deep out there in places and lots of fun. My newly won Arc&#8217;teryx jacket got a proper workout as we rolled and frollicked in the snow. Thanks go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/stufffromtheoutside.blogspot.com\/www.canada.travel\">Canadian tourist board<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heason.net\/\">Heason Events<\/a> for providing that!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_JZjlkqG9o40\/SzUa7O7oFRI\/AAAAAAAAAIE\/40AlsWcYCqM\/s1600-h\/Photo00068.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 240px\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_JZjlkqG9o40\/SzUa7O7oFRI\/AAAAAAAAAIE\/40AlsWcYCqM\/s320\/Photo00068.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419267331533051154\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_JZjlkqG9o40\/SzUa1yyXaVI\/AAAAAAAAAH8\/6Zsfk-G7Cko\/s1600-h\/Photo00067.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 240px\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_JZjlkqG9o40\/SzUa1yyXaVI\/AAAAAAAAAH8\/6Zsfk-G7Cko\/s320\/Photo00067.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419267238078671186\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We leave you with a question&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How many snowy expeditions did it take the likes of Bonnington, Cave, Kirkpatrick, etc before snowfights wore a bit thin?  <\/p>\n<p>(It would take about 50 for us I think, tee hee.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we dragged ourselves out of bed at a ridiculous time for a Christmas day morning and were out the door for 9 o&#8217;clock, eek! 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