Beautiful hike today in the New Forest in the south of the UK. The name hides the fact that it’s ancient woodland with beautiful trees as well as ancient heathland and moors.
With lots and lots and lots of rain in the past few weeks, there was mud more than galore, the grassland was soggy and wet, and fording the normally very shallow small trickly streams became quite a challenge with fast flowing water🤔! We veered round puddles, trudged through the mud and climbed over and under fallen trees. My feet stayed dry till nearly our end point. We then had to cross a fast flowing stream, so we unsuccessfully tried to build a dam. I got fed up (I was hungry and wanted my food) and just went through the stream! I managed fairly well only to sink deep in mud on the other side… 🤣 Hubs faired worse: his boot got stuck and he fell over. No picture, just let your imagination do the work 🙃🙃🙃🙃.
With 20.000 steps done, it’s certainly a beautiful #workout✅
Mud, wet grassland and streams: beautiful hike!
Beautiful hike today in the New Forest in the south of the UK. The name hides the fact that it’s ancient woodland with beautiful trees as well as ancient heathland and moors.
With lots and lots and lots of rain in the past few weeks, there was mud more than galore, the grassland was soggy and wet, and fording the normally very shallow small trickly streams became quite a challenge with fast flowing water🤔! We veered round puddles, trudged through the mud and climbed over and under fallen trees. My feet stayed dry till nearly our end point. We then had to cross a fast flowing stream, so we unsuccessfully tried to build a dam. I got fed up (I was hungry and wanted my food) and just went through the stream! I managed fairly well only to sink deep in mud on the other side… 🤣 Hubs faired worse: his boot got stuck and he fell over. No picture, just let your imagination do the work 🙃🙃🙃🙃.
With 20.000 steps done, it’s certainly a beautiful #workout✅
Some more pictures in replies.