These are pictures of the road down from Cochiti Mesa Saturday. Andy thought he would have to use chains on the Jeep yesterday to drive down to the canyon even though the county plow had made one pass on it..
But our neighbor was cleaning it up using his tractor and bucket.
And he did such a good job Andy didn’t need chains. He parked at the bottom and hiked in the 1.1 miles to the house to get the truck.
Here’s what the beginning of that path looked like Saturday.
He managed to plow well enough yesterday that he could drive all the way in today.
Our plow was good enough to clear one narrow lane, but if we get much more snow we will be in trouble!
Andy took three other pictures yesterday, and if anyone is interested they are at 1-20-19 Snow in the Mountains
January 21, 2019
Andy, your commitment to energetic fun and satisfying accomplishment is remarkable. They must make your life very good in many ways.
He says it keeps him off the streets and out of trouble. 🙂
This is the kind of thing he loves, and we’re lucky that he can do it.
I loved seeing all those pictures on Flickr!
it’s wonderful that he feels up to all that.
the air looks and must feel so pristine!
thank goodness for your tracking system. xo
Yes, the Garmin is invaluable!
I guess a plow is a must if you’re going to live there
We live in an apartment down here, but Andy goes up almost every day. It keeps him properly challenged and engaged in life. Not too bad for almost 84 years old!.
I love seeing that much snow!!!
It’s fine as long as Andy can get up there! In the old days we used to get snowed out every winter. And in spite of the challenges for Andy we’re happy to see the moisture given our long-term drought. Your place is beautiful too!
Wow, Andy did very well, didn’t he? Mom says all that snow reminds her of some of the big blizzards she experienced in New England when she lived there. She is glad that now she doesn’t have to do all the shoveling or driving in the deep snow.
Woos – Lightning, Misty, and Timber
I’m with her! I was raised in California where we didn’t have that problem, and now we live in an apartment down here in town and the management does all the snow clearing. They were a bit overwhelmed with the snow around New Year’s but they’ve mostly caught up now. I’m grateful.
now I want to chat about your word “plowing” – if you said to someone here in winter that you were plowing, they would send you directly to the loony bin…plowing takes place in early spring, and it’s not for common people but rather if you were in agricultural business of making the ground ready to sow seed for anything vegetable or grain wise 🙂
if you were clearing a dirt road, the council would send in the “grader” and yes it would clear the road of excess gravel that had built up and put it back on the tire track bit…maybe grade the sides if the weeds etc were encroaching on the actual roadway… “you never wanted to meet the grader, as usually it was mostly a one way road…hard to get past, and if in summer, much dust he/she would be creating”
We have road graders on dirt roads here, too, and farmers plow their fields. I never saw a snow plow when I was growing up because it never snowed. Moving away was an education!
I Googled snow plows NZ and got this video. Presumably on South Island?
https://youtu.be/0X6jQoEo0Aw
oops I think I just hit reply on the comment reminder about SI and Arthurs pass…will try to cut/paste into here…
yes the SI – and Arthurs Pass is basically middle of the mountainous range – the train trip from Christchurch to Greymouth – stops there, one year, we stopped off there for a few hours whilst we waited for the return train – it wasn’t snowing but boy was it was cold…possibly early Spring when we were there. I’ve also done the transalpine at another time, late 1980s….
https://www.greatjourneysofnz.co.nz/tranzalpine/
http://www.arthurspass.com/
at one point in clip – the sign on the back of the trapped truck said “road sweeping” – seemed incongruous to the snow depth 🙂
thanks for the clip, because I don’t live in the SI, I sometimes forget what might occur down there, with machinery and gadgets…although on saying that every time in winter when there is severe wind chill up here, you know it’s snowing badly somewhere down south…coming up from South Pole region…
We definitely have plows HERE!
I hear them in the middle of the night, rumbling down the road.
It’s actually comforting.
Yesterday it was raining ice
and I woke up to 8 inches of snow.
I hated that I had to go out into it but I had to get to work
and it turned out to be a good thing that I did because I found my niece Lily stuck in a busy intersection in the snow. I had to get out and try to drive her vehicle out and we were lucky that some young guys stopped and pushed her vehicle out of the drifts.
So… while I know Andy enjoys the adventure of the snow,
I don’t really understand it.
😉
It makes a big difference if it’s voluntary! I would hate it too if l had to drive when the roads are bad. In fact, I mostly only drive around town even when the weather is nice — the big exception is when Andy has his eyes treated in Santa Fe and I drive home.
Good luck with your weather!