'big Snow' - Up In The Pennines At Sunset

[Pennine Ten Foot Drifts]

Went out for another ramble this evening, just as the sun was setting. Made for a beautiful scene, and really brought home to me just why snow is so magical !

Heading up to the moors:

Wind blown snow sculptures:

Decent drifting:

Sun sets:

Back through the old quarry:

Edited February 4, 2009 by Pennine Ten Foot Drifts

[stormchaser1]

Wow

Nice pics thanks for sharing, The Pennines can be a very Baron place , however the scenery is magnifcant, i used to deliver up in the North pennines, and some of the scenry up there is out of this world

Thanks for sharing

nigel

[tom_f123]

Fantastic photos, really beautiful.

[Chrissy]

Nice photo's i always find the Drift sculptures amazing, the sunset ones are really nice too.

[Zenarcher]

WOW great pictures thanks for sharing the snow looks really deep!

[Pennine Ten Foot Drifts]

Thanks for the comments everyone, sometimes I really do feel very lucky to be able to wander for ten minutes and end up in scenery like this. I do worry sometimes that pics like these don't really do justice to the amazing views, but hopefully they do give some idea at least !

[Pennine Ten Foot Drifts]

Just thought I'd add an update - two more from today - topped up this morning, and very little melt yet, so still a good amount of snow around here

If no-one objects I might try and keep up a bit of running report on this to see how long the snow lasts in any appreciable amount up here

[Storm Animal]

Oh love the sunset ones, Its my fave part of the day after a snow event, when the skies are clear and you get a beautiful red sky. Was similar here yesterday, sub zero, no wind, beautiful sunset, and loads of smokey chimneys......looked just how a Febuary night should do

[Yeti]

Really nice pics PTFD, very atmospheric. I love the sunset ones in particular - and who would want to live far away from hills? We are lucky to be so close to them in the N

[IRON-BRU]

Stunning pictures.Please keep us all updated.I am looking to go for a walk on Sunday and am interested as to how much snow certain areas still have.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Not bad for Yorkshire.

[jethro]

Gorgeous! I did have snow envy yesterday looking at these, feeling a bit better today

[disco-barry]

I've just got home to Slawit down the hill, we've had 1 foot of laying snow....the most in Yorkshire apparently.

Brilliant pics Pennine, i'll be up in the old quarry tomorrow hopefully....very little has melted and i doubt much more will.

Edited February 7, 2009 by disco-barry

[jimben]

Love the moorland photos. Which moor were those taken on ?

[disco-barry]

Good question, it's owned a lot of that land by The Earl of Dartmouth....but it's very close to Saddleworth moor and Rishworth Moor.

[disco-barry]

...Marsden Moor.