Canoe

Last Saturday Andrew Cheetham and I went out exploring for snow photographs in Broxa forest.. The powder snow was deep off the beaten track and the forest path that I took to revisit a vantage point for a possible photograph had a fresh 6 inch layer of  snow hiding all the ruts and pot holes that I knew existed on this  remote track. It was fun ploughing through the fresh snow in the defender in low ratio gear box we securely and effortlessly pushed  on through the snow. The image I was looking for was a 30 minute treck from the defender. Wading knee deep through the white powder to my vantage point, the trees that I had in mind were frozen and looked beautiful however the light was fading fast and I had not left enough time to return to the defender for my Deardorff. Well it is heavy and I was not convinced that the light would be right.

As  we headed back home down the snowy track in the twilight of the late afternoon we came upon a group of lads trying to push a transit van out of a snow laden rutt in the track. To our amusement the van had been towing a Canoe along as a makeshift sleigh!?

The four young men seemed quite unaware of their plight out in the wilderness of  Broxa forest at dusk with the light and the temperature falling. They calmly asked if  I would mind towing them  out of the ditch which I did. They had been digging out and pushing for about 2 hours and as far as I could gather did not seem at all concerned  about the predicament that they were in.