Ten minutes or so of reverse descending, riding the brakes of the car and keeping that speed low before finding a turning point and then, finally, black tarmac.
A different road finally took me on to another location that I ended up exploring on foot.
An old road with bridge took off across the uplands towards the mountains where I photographed the scene above.
I didn't get a chance to photograph snow last year, 2019, as I was going through cancer treatment, an operation and chemotherapy. Indeed the journey home from hospital was a snowy one but no photographs until the following day.
So I planned to get out and about with the camera this year, between Storm Ciara and the incoming Storm Dennis, before all the snow melts.
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