No more plowing this winter, Andy says. We didn’t get much new snow up there, but the wind has created some big drifts and there’s no place to put the snow. (The snow piled on the sides of the road have melted and refrozen so they’re walls of ice now — they can’t be moved.)
He took these pictures yesterday. In the second one you can see the wind blowing the snow:
In the following two pictures you can see his footprints. Because he plowed the other day he didn’t need snowshoes. That helps a lot. Yesterday he had to walk the two miles from the fire station but today he could drive with chains down to the canyon, which means the walk in was only one mile.
Notice the difference between the last two pictures and these taken last Thursday:
You can see how the drifts caused by the wind have blocked the road.
February 24, 2019
more wow…looks kind of alien to me, and the snow surface just looks like a painted footpath (okay I can see heaps, giggling)
I can imagine it does look alien. It’s certainly different from where I was raised. 🙂
It looks terribly cold. I can’t imagine having to snowshoe 2 miles in all that snow. In the first two pictures, is that the road leading up to the cabin? It’s so steep
Yes, it was cold, and that’s the road up to the cabin. Because he had plowed he didn’t have to wear snowshoes, he just needed his overshoes. And he only had to walk a mile because he could drive down to the canyon and park (about halfway). If he had cleared a turn-around spot where the road was more flat he could have cut the distance even more, but we’ve had such dry winters the past few years he didn’t think about it. It’s mainly those drifts at the top that are keeping him from driving up there.
That sure is a lot of snow. We wish the wind could blow some of it to us. We got rain over the weekend and most of our snow is gone:(
Woos- Lightning, Misty, and Timber
I know. I sympathize with you because you really love the snow. 🙁