Snowy Trinnacle

Snow overnight, familiar hill, obvious plan. The Trinnacle sits above Dovestone Reservoir and I’ve been up here more times than I can count — but fresh snow and not a single footprint changes a place enough to make it worth another visit.

Getting the shot required climbing the Trinnacle itself — not advised in dry conditions, actively inadvisable in snow. Tripod set up on the path, 5-second intervals, then up. The red jacket was a deliberate choice — without it, I would disappear entirely into the grey and white. With it, the scale of the drop to Greenfield Reservoir below becomes immediately obvious.

The moorland stretching out behind, every track and wall picked out in white, Dovestone curving away to the left — a view I know well, looking considerably more dramatic than usual.

Worth the climb. Probably.