The 4th January and almost a thousand feet above the Severn basin and still climbing. That’s not snow by the way, but exceptionally heavy frost. Temperatures on the hill had reached -12C overnight and despite the early morning sunshine and the clear blue skies, things hadn’t improved much. In fact it was still extremely cold in the shade (possibly as much as -15C) when you added the old wind chill factor!Still, it was these very conditions that drew me up there in the first place and the chance for Tess and I to get in about six hours of useful SAR practise as well as searching around for any interesting wildlife tracks and other sign.

Sadly, it was too late  for us to be of significant use the day before (Sunday) at Frampton, but we spent the rest of the day sweeping the entire area anyway just in case anyone else had been involved, but thankfully, they hadn’t (that’s the day we were chased by the horse by the way)!