Heres a typical road off a bus route.
Weekend activities! (old thread reanimated)
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DO not biking there please!
We dont want to see another broken leg!
@professor’s was enough for the last year.
Great he has recovered and is active again now.!
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Definitely no biking @Chiquinho It’s hard enough to walk on. Although I’m keeping a reasonable walking pace.
Going uphill is slightly tricky 
Crawling! 
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How about those.
May be not so known in UK.
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If I were at those conditions I’d consider it a rest day. The thaw is setting in and then it’s time to exercise. It’s just windy and the ice is in the obvious places, fields over-run. This is tidal water, at high tide it freezes to the land and accumulates over the days to become a solid block.
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I own them, I worked and traveled in places like New York before, I’d walk off a plane in shoes and be walking the streets with stretch-over grippers. They work but you have to keep taking them on/off as the surface varies. Most New Yorkers keep work shoes at work and walk there in specific boots, so you’d see a collection of winter boots by the door.
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Normally these are used on glaciers.
But why not in towns.
Better to be safe this way.
Well many are in lockdown so you’d leave your house with specific boots on for ice, its for when you’re traveling the conditions vary. These are mine:
With recovering from broken leg I have simply not gone near ice, I’ve a few days when not left the house. 6 months from now you’ll have people saying its too hot to go out, and the air quality from the forest fires. The answer is of course cease the day, most days its good enough to go out and so do!
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Yes I have seen these -> Pensioners!..hehehe!
(kidding! )
I’ve seen spiked shoes/clip-ons in climbing shops.
Very handy if the weather is snowy and icy most of the time.
In the UK we get a few days a year only - which is fine by me 
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Great photo!
I’m assuming that’s a sheet of ice @professor.
Charlie would love chucking rocks into that!
I’m out all weathers apart from hard rain.
Got a few miles in this week. Not as much as I’d like but every little helps.
My cold dry weather mittens, fleece lined windproof, called P&P Pile and Pertex, the fleece wicks moisture off skin and evaporates at the outer, can handle a degree of rain but the assumption is it’s sub zero so it’s just snow ice and sweat to solve so don’t need and don’t want waterproof.
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Maybe one day Charlie could get here in Winter,
play with other kids from the neighbors and having fun.
Snowman, Sledging, Skiing, Ice skating etc.
He would like that. 
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Nice @professor, been considering mittens.
Must be warmer as you’re fingers are together generating a bit of their own warmth.
I guess the trade off for less dexterity.
Maybe I need a new pair of Windstoppers for less cold and windy conditions and mittens for when things get sub zero.
Oh he would Franz.
Our friends further north from you have been sending photos and videos. They have had a lot of snow up there.
This “was” his garden 
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Not normal for those in the North of Germany.
They are not used to such heavy snow falls and dont know to handle it well.
But I am sure the made it perfectly.
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They are all safe and well thanks