path to the snowmobile trail

[asakiyume]

The snow's between two and three feet high on the ground, which means it's not easy to walk through without snow pants, which means you're confined to roads. I like walking on the snowmobile trails, but it's a matter of getting there ...

So I shoveled a path--the path I'd normally take--from my neighborhood road to the snowmobile trail.

It is a thing of beauty! Behold, its entrance:



Unfortunately, the snow plow, in widening the road, knocked snow into it...



But I brought my shovel as well as my camera. There. That's better!





Through the woods...



heading toward the retention pond...





At last, it meets the snowmobile trail, which looks like a regular highway by comparison:



And now I can walk in the woods without snow pants, AND I can walk into town along the snowmobile path.

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

That is some heroic shovelling!

[greylistening.livejournal.com]

Lookit that!

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a LOT of snow!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

A mighty and worthwhile effort.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Freedom at last!

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

How ambitious of you!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Well, that'll certainly keep you fit! :o)

[pameladean]

Wow! How far is it, do you know? That is really impressive even if it were just the length of a driveway, but it looks considerably longer than that. Well, than an urban driveway, as a rule. I've seen pretty long driveways, usually very steep and winding ones. Anyway.

P.

[egg-shell.livejournal.com]

Yay for the snowmobiles! And yay for you to connect to them. That is a lot of shoveling.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Now THAT is a workout...that leads to another workout. :P

[ericmarin.livejournal.com]

Well shoveled!

Walking the snow road
beneath the winter sun--
quiet steps, calm smile.

[cafenowhere.livejournal.com]

Good lord, lady. You must have biceps of wonder and DOOM, not to mention powerful abs. Very impressive.

[oiktirmos.livejournal.com]

John Henry vs. Steam Hammer.

Asakiyume vs. MassDOT snowplow.

[stormdog.livejournal.com]

Even though it feels kind of magical, to carve out a little trail through that sea of soft white after a snowfall, I have to admit that this is the kind of thing that makes me not want to be a home-owner.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

That is VERY impressive! Both in terms of the snow that is there, and the snow that isn't where it was! :)

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

That is some impressive path! How are your back, thighs, and hands?

[bondo-ba.livejournal.com]

Your pics make me actually miss large piles of snow. I assume this would last for all of a week if I had to deal with said piles, but still...

[genarti]

Excellently valiant trailblazing!

[c-maxx.livejournal.com]

You didn't shovel ALL the way to the sb trail did you??

Mega-trailblazing!

We're all hanging in, but have all had a bug, for two weeks we did nothing but sleep and, barely, school homework.