Snow??

[Stagger]

Stair carpet might save you a bit of time.

[IanDarkpeak]

Stair carpet might save you a bit of time.

lol...but those corners would make it a bouncy drive..

[RichardAThackeray]

just getting some snow socks for the car as they fit in seconds

I saw John Howe at work a couple of days ago, & he told me the other day that you'd had some donated

[Trig]

Yesterday on the Heptonstall route
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...0402926&type=1

Come and join our mass recce on Sunday 23rd - starts 9am from White Lion - free soup and Xmas pudding at the end

[Alf]

Yesterday on the Heptonstall route
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...0402926&type=1

Come and join our mass recce on Sunday 23rd - starts 9am from White Lion - free soup and Xmas pudding at the end

Well I think you have just sold it to me with the Christmas Pudding :thumbup:

[Stolly]

Fair snowy up on Fairfield on Saturday

[shaunaneto]

Looks like a good day out that Stolly

[Latege]

Not strictly snow but called in at a place of work yesterday as I saw some lights on. It's a steep drive down a narrow private lane. no worries on the road totally clear pulled on to the drive with out a thought, it looked clear to the bottom but almost instantly i was sledgeing down water ice, the road gets steeper with an iron bar gate and dry stone wall at the bottom. Mid way down there is a passing place, how I don't know but managed to slide the car sideways up a grass bank which stopped me going to the bottom and hitting the gate/wall.

I managed to straighten the car up but the road was covered in 1/4 inch of verglass, i couldn't even stand up with out sliding down the road....

It's now getting dark I'm 2 miles from habitation, there's no one in the building! It's impossible to move the car on the ice?????

Inspiration and some "Ice cold in Alex" thinking. I have 4x50cm carpet mats in the boot to stand on whilst changing after running.

So 50 m up this track in sheet ice I inched my way up.
Carpet down drive 50 cms put next 2 mats down-drive 50cm- pick up mat behind tyre and put in front drive 50cms repeat approx 100 times and an hour later I crept on to the road....:thumbup:

Moral of the story Carpet is great to get you out of trouble on ice

I'll take this advice in reverse. I recently put a couple of old carpet off-cuts into the car boot for just such a situation (getting a grip on ice), but hadn't thought about how useful they might be for standing on post run/race. Thanks for the tip.

[RaceTheSweeper]

MrRTS had a bit of a (all I can call it is a breakdown) a couple of years ago and took up snowboarding! He went twice and thankfully came to his senses :-). We put the board and boots on e-bay tonight with a starting bid, a reserve price and a buy it now price! Whoosh ....... Buy it now within 60mins of posting. Never realised so many people were having breakdowns!!!

[Mike T]

Perfect "walking" snow above 2,000ft on the Fairfield horseshoe today - a bit of give to provide grip, but not so much you sink through it. Hard ground and quite a bit of ice elsewhere - but nothing you cannot walk around. I had microspikes in my pack, and they stayed there. Cold wind on top, but sunny throughout.