Outdoor fun

[FlyingFinn]

It was nice day to go out and have some fun!

Engine bay loaded with snow!

[Drift]

That looks brill Fin, you lucky thing

[slapshotDTSneil]

[bobbinsjob]

why can't we ever get proper snow? that looks ace

[FlyingFinn]

This is quite exciting too, you´ll never know when you have to take a shevel and start digging. Ground is frozen, and sometimes grip says goodbye...I have no studs in my tyres, whitch makes this more exciting!

[FlyingFinn]

Last sunday i decided to go and test some limits...About 30cm of new snow came during few days, and air was around 5 degrees, so snow was very wet and slippery.



Everything went well before i had to reverse and turn around. In picture below this, i´m not stuck yet, even snow depth was about 50- 70cm from the ground. And snow was very wet, it stucked like concrete under my car.



So i got stuck, and i had to use a shevel about 1,5hrs to get wet snow under my car away. After i finally got free, ground looked like a battlezone. Whats the lesson in this? I should use studs in my tyres in those conditions. With stud its easier to get a grip, because theres always 1-2 cm of pure ice just above sandy ground. But i would do this again!

[Red Oktober]

why don't we ever get snow like that ....


cool piccys though

[Sir-Doris]

Sweet!

[Rich2.4i]

Very nice piccy's wish we would get snow like that ..

[Mrs Rich2.4i]

nice piccy's love to have some snow like that

[FlyingFinn]

I made a outdoor trip today, and few photos. I´ll put those here so i´m not polluting every topic in FOG...
Outside temp was nice -18C, so it was fresh air to breathe in.

This will not include any Fronty pics, sorry. They will come later.

At first i found a place where female black grouse has met a hawk (falcon?). Hawk is no more hungry.


Here is some small frost and bright light. Sun starts to set, it was 13.00 hours at the moment.



One more, the sun goes lower.


And finally, highlight of the walk, bobcat trails...Grown up one. Bobcat on the left, some dog on the right.


More pics coming when we get more snow, now heres only 10- 15cm thickness. Its a piece of cake for Sporty one.

[Road Hog]

Hi Finn,cool pic`s love the third one down marvellous shot

[FlyingFinn]

I placed the sun behind that tree, it was making me blind. Sun above snow can be really blinding, it brings water to eyes quite soon.

[Road Hog]

Yes I can understand that reason,stunning outcome though. It would be really hard to take a similar scene in England as the Sun does not have as much power over here.

[FlyingFinn]

I have often seen very beautiful "games" with sun and snow, and those scenes can be really beautiful. Only few times in my life i´ve seen that "blue moment" in the forest. That is just amazing, snow and everything looks like pale blue. That should be captured to camera.

[Road Hog]

You should send that shot to some Calender makers,it is very pleasing to the eye

[FlyingFinn]

Last time i saw that was about 5 years ago, then i didnt have a camera with me. Now i´m carrying this Nokia N70 with me all the time and have a better chance of taking pics. But i´ll bet that this blue moment will not show itself for a long time... Its a combination of sun and weather, and most important thing is that place where you are.

[Road Hog]

Do your Spaniels like all that deep snow ?? It must make recovering the grouse much more difficult for them

[FlyingFinn]

I dont know do they like it, but they will go ahead! Spaniels are quite stupid (Sorry if i hurt somebodys feelings), they just like to run, and its possible that they dont even notice that snow... Monsters of energy.

[ukcobra]

Looks like a lot of fun, looking forward to Finland 2010 !