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I do this! One never knows if there's a patch of ice underneath the snow!
Walk like a penguin? How not to fall, including in winter
Increased efforts at prevention could save lives. Here are some tips.
Author of the article:
By Susan Schwartz • Montreal Gazette
Published Jan 31, 2026"In our northern climes, outdoor fall risks in winter include surfaces covered with snow, ice or black ice. Montreal’s public health department has considerable online information on preventing falls outdoors and indoors, including:
- Learn to walk like a penguin — at any age — to prevent slips and falls: Bend forward slightly to keep your centre of gravity over your feet, walk slowly and take small steps with your feet apart in a V shape and your arms free and out to your sides. Carry purchases or personal effects in a backpack.
- Wear proper boots — light, warm, well-insulated and waterproof, with wide, thick, non-slip soles. Avoid smooth soles and high heels.
- When walking on hard snow and ice, use ice grippers to increase safety and stability. Do not wear grippers indoors.
- Used properly, walking poles or sticks increase stability and improve posture. Sold in sport and outdoor equipment stores, they provide extra points of contact with the ground, reduce impact on the low back and the knees and improve endurance and walking speed: Adjust the height so your elbows are at a 90-degree angle when you hold the poles out in front of you. Choose the right tip for the terrain and season: ice picks in winter, for instance. Walk with a natural arm swing.
- Have your phone, or a whistle, within reach in case you fall."#WinterWalking #WinterWeather #PreventFalls #WinterSafetyTips
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I do this! One never knows if there's a patch of ice underneath the snow!
Walk like a penguin? How not to fall, including in winter
Increased efforts at prevention could save lives. Here are some tips.
Author of the article:
By Susan Schwartz • Montreal Gazette
Published Jan 31, 2026"In our northern climes, outdoor fall risks in winter include surfaces covered with snow, ice or black ice. Montreal’s public health department has considerable online information on preventing falls outdoors and indoors, including:
- Learn to walk like a penguin — at any age — to prevent slips and falls: Bend forward slightly to keep your centre of gravity over your feet, walk slowly and take small steps with your feet apart in a V shape and your arms free and out to your sides. Carry purchases or personal effects in a backpack.
- Wear proper boots — light, warm, well-insulated and waterproof, with wide, thick, non-slip soles. Avoid smooth soles and high heels.
- When walking on hard snow and ice, use ice grippers to increase safety and stability. Do not wear grippers indoors.
- Used properly, walking poles or sticks increase stability and improve posture. Sold in sport and outdoor equipment stores, they provide extra points of contact with the ground, reduce impact on the low back and the knees and improve endurance and walking speed: Adjust the height so your elbows are at a 90-degree angle when you hold the poles out in front of you. Choose the right tip for the terrain and season: ice picks in winter, for instance. Walk with a natural arm swing.
- Have your phone, or a whistle, within reach in case you fall."#WinterWalking #WinterWeather #PreventFalls #WinterSafetyTips
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I do this! One never knows if there's a patch of ice underneath the snow!
Walk like a penguin? How not to fall, including in winter
Increased efforts at prevention could save lives. Here are some tips.
Author of the article:
By Susan Schwartz • Montreal Gazette
Published Jan 31, 2026"In our northern climes, outdoor fall risks in winter include surfaces covered with snow, ice or black ice. Montreal’s public health department has considerable online information on preventing falls outdoors and indoors, including:
- Learn to walk like a penguin — at any age — to prevent slips and falls: Bend forward slightly to keep your centre of gravity over your feet, walk slowly and take small steps with your feet apart in a V shape and your arms free and out to your sides. Carry purchases or personal effects in a backpack.
- Wear proper boots — light, warm, well-insulated and waterproof, with wide, thick, non-slip soles. Avoid smooth soles and high heels.
- When walking on hard snow and ice, use ice grippers to increase safety and stability. Do not wear grippers indoors.
- Used properly, walking poles or sticks increase stability and improve posture. Sold in sport and outdoor equipment stores, they provide extra points of contact with the ground, reduce impact on the low back and the knees and improve endurance and walking speed: Adjust the height so your elbows are at a 90-degree angle when you hold the poles out in front of you. Choose the right tip for the terrain and season: ice picks in winter, for instance. Walk with a natural arm swing.
- Have your phone, or a whistle, within reach in case you fall."#WinterWalking #WinterWeather #PreventFalls #WinterSafetyTips
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I do this! One never knows if there's a patch of ice underneath the snow!
Walk like a penguin? How not to fall, including in winter
Increased efforts at prevention could save lives. Here are some tips.
Author of the article:
By Susan Schwartz • Montreal Gazette
Published Jan 31, 2026"In our northern climes, outdoor fall risks in winter include surfaces covered with snow, ice or black ice. Montreal’s public health department has considerable online information on preventing falls outdoors and indoors, including:
- Learn to walk like a penguin — at any age — to prevent slips and falls: Bend forward slightly to keep your centre of gravity over your feet, walk slowly and take small steps with your feet apart in a V shape and your arms free and out to your sides. Carry purchases or personal effects in a backpack.
- Wear proper boots — light, warm, well-insulated and waterproof, with wide, thick, non-slip soles. Avoid smooth soles and high heels.
- When walking on hard snow and ice, use ice grippers to increase safety and stability. Do not wear grippers indoors.
- Used properly, walking poles or sticks increase stability and improve posture. Sold in sport and outdoor equipment stores, they provide extra points of contact with the ground, reduce impact on the low back and the knees and improve endurance and walking speed: Adjust the height so your elbows are at a 90-degree angle when you hold the poles out in front of you. Choose the right tip for the terrain and season: ice picks in winter, for instance. Walk with a natural arm swing.
- Have your phone, or a whistle, within reach in case you fall."#WinterWalking #WinterWeather #PreventFalls #WinterSafetyTips
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I do this! One never knows if there's a patch of ice underneath the snow!
Walk like a penguin? How not to fall, including in winter
Increased efforts at prevention could save lives. Here are some tips.
Author of the article:
By Susan Schwartz • Montreal Gazette
Published Jan 31, 2026"In our northern climes, outdoor fall risks in winter include surfaces covered with snow, ice or black ice. Montreal’s public health department has considerable online information on preventing falls outdoors and indoors, including:
- Learn to walk like a penguin — at any age — to prevent slips and falls: Bend forward slightly to keep your centre of gravity over your feet, walk slowly and take small steps with your feet apart in a V shape and your arms free and out to your sides. Carry purchases or personal effects in a backpack.
- Wear proper boots — light, warm, well-insulated and waterproof, with wide, thick, non-slip soles. Avoid smooth soles and high heels.
- When walking on hard snow and ice, use ice grippers to increase safety and stability. Do not wear grippers indoors.
- Used properly, walking poles or sticks increase stability and improve posture. Sold in sport and outdoor equipment stores, they provide extra points of contact with the ground, reduce impact on the low back and the knees and improve endurance and walking speed: Adjust the height so your elbows are at a 90-degree angle when you hold the poles out in front of you. Choose the right tip for the terrain and season: ice picks in winter, for instance. Walk with a natural arm swing.
- Have your phone, or a whistle, within reach in case you fall."#WinterWalking #WinterWeather #PreventFalls #WinterSafetyTips
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This Saturday we have a wonderful festive winter walk around the beautiful Chiltern hills of Wendover.
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersgb #hiking #walking #wendover #hampshire #chilternhills #winterwonderland #winterwalking #santaclause #christmastime #wintersolsticecelebration -
This Saturday we have a wonderful festive winter walk around the beautiful Chiltern hills of Wendover.
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersgb #hiking #walking #wendover #hampshire #chilternhills #winterwonderland #winterwalking #santaclause #christmastime #wintersolsticecelebration -
This Saturday we have a wonderful festive winter walk around the beautiful Chiltern hills of Wendover.
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersgb #hiking #walking #wendover #hampshire #chilternhills #winterwonderland #winterwalking #santaclause #christmastime #wintersolsticecelebration -
This Saturday we have a wonderful festive winter walk around the beautiful Chiltern hills of Wendover.
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersgb #hiking #walking #wendover #hampshire #chilternhills #winterwonderland #winterwalking #santaclause #christmastime #wintersolsticecelebration -
This Saturday we have a wonderful festive winter walk around the beautiful Chiltern hills of Wendover.
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersgb #hiking #walking #wendover #hampshire #chilternhills #winterwonderland #winterwalking #santaclause #christmastime #wintersolsticecelebration -
This week’s midweek walk takes in some winter canals and a warm pub to end in.
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersuk #walking #londonwalks #mileend #liverpoolstreet #regentscanal #shadwellbasin #limehousebasin #winterwalking -
This week’s midweek walk takes in some winter canals and a warm pub to end in.
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersuk #walking #londonwalks #mileend #liverpoolstreet #regentscanal #shadwellbasin #limehousebasin #winterwalking -
Lovely hike from Hidcote up and over Lark Stoke, and on towards Shipston this morning. The public footpath ran along an old #HollowWay and appeared to be an old #droversroads trail leading straight towards #Banbury
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Lovely hike from Hidcote up and over Lark Stoke, and on towards Shipston this morning. The public footpath ran along an old #HollowWay and appeared to be an old #droversroads trail leading straight towards #Banbury
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Lovely hike from Hidcote up and over Lark Stoke, and on towards Shipston this morning. The public footpath ran along an old #HollowWay and appeared to be an old #droversroads trail leading straight towards #Banbury
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Lovely hike from Hidcote up and over Lark Stoke, and on towards Shipston this morning. The public footpath ran along an old #HollowWay and appeared to be an old #droversroads trail leading straight towards #Banbury
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Lovely hike from Hidcote up and over Lark Stoke, and on towards Shipston this morning. The public footpath ran along an old #HollowWay and appeared to be an old #droversroads trail leading straight towards #Banbury
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The view from the summit of Simonside yesterday, looking across to the snow-covered Cheviot Hills in the distance. The high point of a cold but beautiful walk.
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People are small 18
On the slopes of Yr Wyddfa.
#snowdonia #eryri #wyddfa #snowdon
#mountain #mynydda #photo #photography #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering #GogleddCymru #NorthWales #landscape #ArtAdventCalendar #WinterWalking -
People are small 18
On the slopes of Yr Wyddfa.
#snowdonia #eryri #wyddfa #snowdon
#mountain #mynydda #photo #photography #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering #GogleddCymru #NorthWales #landscape #ArtAdventCalendar #WinterWalking -
People are small 18
On the slopes of Yr Wyddfa.
#snowdonia #eryri #wyddfa #snowdon
#mountain #mynydda #photo #photography #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering #GogleddCymru #NorthWales #landscape #ArtAdventCalendar #WinterWalking -
People are small 18
On the slopes of Yr Wyddfa.
#snowdonia #eryri #wyddfa #snowdon
#mountain #mynydda #photo #photography #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering #GogleddCymru #NorthWales #landscape #ArtAdventCalendar #WinterWalking -
People are small 18
On the slopes of Yr Wyddfa.
#snowdonia #eryri #wyddfa #snowdon
#mountain #mynydda #photo #photography #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering #GogleddCymru #NorthWales #landscape #ArtAdventCalendar #WinterWalking -
People are small 17
Safe to post snow again?
#snowdonia #eryri #Carneddau
#mountain #mynydda #photo #photography #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering #GogleddCymru #NorthWales #landscape #ArtAdventCalendar #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Moody #WinterWalking -
Snowy walk this morning. The light was so beautiful. These beech trees are the only survivors of a large copse, which was completely devastated by Storm Arwen last year. I’m glad some of them made it.
#Winter #WinterWalking #Northumberland #Trees -
People are small 7
Same day as yesterday, looking from Y Garn towards Glyder Fawr on a moody day out.
#glyderau #YGarn #mountain #eryri #WinterWalking #snow #snowdonia #SnowdoniaNationalPark #mynydda #photo #photography #canon6d #digitalphoto #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering #GogleddCymru #NorthWales #winter
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People are small 7
Same day as yesterday, looking from Y Garn towards Glyder Fawr on a moody day out.
#glyderau #YGarn #mountain #eryri #WinterWalking #snow #snowdonia #SnowdoniaNationalPark #mynydda #photo #photography #canon6d #digitalphoto #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering #GogleddCymru #NorthWales #winter
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People are small 7
Same day as yesterday, looking from Y Garn towards Glyder Fawr on a moody day out.
#glyderau #YGarn #mountain #eryri #WinterWalking #snow #snowdonia #SnowdoniaNationalPark #mynydda #photo #photography #canon6d #digitalphoto #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering #GogleddCymru #NorthWales #winter
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People are small 7
Same day as yesterday, looking from Y Garn towards Glyder Fawr on a moody day out.
#glyderau #YGarn #mountain #eryri #WinterWalking #snow #snowdonia #SnowdoniaNationalPark #mynydda #photo #photography #canon6d #digitalphoto #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering #GogleddCymru #NorthWales #winter
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People are small 7
Same day as yesterday, looking from Y Garn towards Glyder Fawr on a moody day out.
#glyderau #YGarn #mountain #eryri #WinterWalking #snow #snowdonia #SnowdoniaNationalPark #mynydda #photo #photography #canon6d #digitalphoto #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering #GogleddCymru #NorthWales #winter
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People are small 6
Getting further along the range now, heading up Y Garn in the Glyderau on an epic winter day out. Still a different outing to the other shots. Just realised that it's not the favourite I wanted to share, I'll try and dig it out.
#glyderau #YGarn #mountain #eryri #WinterWalking #snow #snowdonia #SnowdoniaNationalPark #mynydda #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #photo #photography #canon600d #digitalphoto #BlackAndWhitePhotography #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering
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People are small 6
Getting further along the range now, heading up Y Garn in the Glyderau on an epic winter day out. Still a different outing to the other shots. Just realised that it's not the favourite I wanted to share, I'll try and dig it out.
#glyderau #YGarn #mountain #eryri #WinterWalking #snow #snowdonia #SnowdoniaNationalPark #mynydda #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #photo #photography #canon600d #digitalphoto #BlackAndWhitePhotography #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering
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People are small 6
Getting further along the range now, heading up Y Garn in the Glyderau on an epic winter day out. Still a different outing to the other shots. Just realised that it's not the favourite I wanted to share, I'll try and dig it out.
#glyderau #YGarn #mountain #eryri #WinterWalking #snow #snowdonia #SnowdoniaNationalPark #mynydda #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #photo #photography #canon600d #digitalphoto #BlackAndWhitePhotography #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering
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People are small 6
Getting further along the range now, heading up Y Garn in the Glyderau on an epic winter day out. Still a different outing to the other shots. Just realised that it's not the favourite I wanted to share, I'll try and dig it out.
#glyderau #YGarn #mountain #eryri #WinterWalking #snow #snowdonia #SnowdoniaNationalPark #mynydda #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #photo #photography #canon600d #digitalphoto #BlackAndWhitePhotography #hiking #HillWalking #PeopleAreSmall #mountaineering
