What motivates you to go running when it's cold, dark and raining outside? Do you have a favourite mountain trail that you rely on for some endorphins in the winter time? How do you get yourself out of the door and into cold water when the clag is down?
Stay indoors, turn up the heating, and scroll yourself to distraction. It's comfortable, right?
But unlike badgers and hedgehogs, we aren't the hibernating type. Find ways to adventure this winter, whatever that means for you.
Somedays, gingerly stepping out into the cold. Take the flask, go in search of solitude, knowing you're more likely to find it on those wind-wrapped days when the hills are only braved by the few. You might be treated to cerulean skies and the clarity of mind that comes when you can see for miles. Or you might be fastening your zip as your head disappears into the rain- splashed hood.
Embrace the cold. And it's 'effing cold. Let the ice-fringed lake take your breath away. Swim the slush.
Embrace the elements. All the elements that are splatted into your face as you grin down on the final descent. It's not called 'gritting your teeth' for nothing, given the amount of grit (plus mud, sweat, mucous) in your teeth by the time you pull home.
Embrace the darkness. A single beam is enough to navigate as your toes dance up those familiar-enough trails. Pause as you summit. The breath you heard hardening as you climbed is now visible as brightened steam.
But winter doesn't have to be an endurance event.
Pick your moment: from a one-minute dip to a mini getaway. Do enough, feel enough, of the cold to savour the coming warmth. In the bothy, in the pub,in a blanket. With the whoever or nobody you choose.
Or follow the path of the mountain blackbird. She finds her summer nest in upland crags, but now she's headed to the rocks of warmer climes.
Find your way to winter with these articles fresh from our winter edition of Outpost.
Glowing Cold - Kat Hill heads to a bothy in the bite of a Scottish winter. Her hike is a reminder of the beauty and adventure to be found all year round.
Run the Winter - Kat Roberts shares what keeps her heading out the door throughout winter, and why it's exactly in those moments that running matters most.
Adventure Microdosing - Alasdair Humphreys perfect winter day ends tucked under a duvet, with the rain rattling on the windows. Find out how he motivates himself to get out of the door.
Cold Fix - Cold water is guaranteed in November, be it a misty lake, a gasping waterfall or a stony beck. But in the damp grey Sara Barnes finds some of her most memorable swims. Here she shares how she finds her way through winter.
Battling the biting cold of Transylvania - Chris Marton takes his Santiago on a week long detour through the Romanian Carpathians facing snow and temperatures down to -6 degrees.