Saturday, March 30, 2013

Galloway Forest Park in the Snow–30th March 2013

 

Easter Saturday and after spending a week shifting snow, we decided it was time to chill out with a walk in the snow in the Galloway Forest Park!

1-Galloway-Forest-Park

We stopped in the Grey Mares Tail carprk to take some photos

2-Galloway-Forest-Park

We were going to walk from here, but the footpaths we attempted were all closed due to felling

3-Galloway-Forest-Park

 

4-Galloway-Forest-Park

 

5-Galloway-Forest-Park

 

6-grey-mares-tail

Grey Mares Tail

7-Galloway-Forest-Park

 

8-Galloway-Forest-Park

 

9-Galloway-Forest-Park

 

10-Galloway-Forest-Park

 

11-Murrays-monument

Murrays Monument

We then moved on to near Clatteringshaws, by the Old Edinburgh Road

12-toadstool

Large toadstool

13-logs

Snowy logs

14-logs

 

15-galloway-forest-park

 

16-gfp

 

17-gfp

 

18-gfp

 

19-tree-shadows

Tree shadows

20-tree-shadows

 

21-snow

 

22-tree

 

23-gfp

 

24-gfp

 

25-Lilles-loch

Lilles Loch

26-lilles-loch

 

27-abstract-reeds

 

28-gfp

 

29-lilles-loch

 

30-white-mountain

 

31-coltsfoot

Coltsfoot

32-frogspawn

Frogspawn, hopefully still alive

33-blood

Worryingly we found a trail of blood which continued for some distance along the track

34-clatteringshaws

Clatteringshaws Loch

35-clatteringshaws-dam

Clatteringshaws Dam

36-red-deer

Red Deer

37-red-deer-range

Red Deer Range

38-red-deer-hide

Red Deer hide

39-red-deer-hide

 

40-red-deer-range

 

41-grass-in-snow

Delicate grasses undamaged by the snow

42-red-deer-range

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