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

[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.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I've always liked shoveling! I'm sure I'd feel differently if I was a ditch digger or something, but even when we lived in apartments, my husband and I enjoyed shoveling out not only our car, but other cars, all neat and tidy.