Not too much snow, but more of it is on the way. And since I do it by hand for the exercise, I absolutely need to clear it as soon as possible, otherwise it quickly becomes overwhelming.
Also, I strategically dumped the snow in the backyard, to start building a cross-country ski track connecting the public tracks on the lake (which will be carved into the snow when the ice is thick enough to drive a quad on) straight to my garage at the front, so I never have to walk the skis back to the garage when I’m back from a trek. More on that later, when the lake is walkable 🙂
Not going to lie. I’m more interested in what you’re building in the back. I know all those words, but living in a place that only gets ice, I don’t know what they all mean together.
Well, I’m dumping extra snow between the garage at the front of the property and the lake, so there’s enough thickness to groom classic country ski tracks, so I can ski from the lake to my garage and vice-versa. On the lake itself, the city grooms a network of tracks going all around the lake when the ice is thick enough, and also through the forest to connect the lake to the public ski network.
The tracks on the lake run right by my place, so I have access the entire long-distance ski network from my backyard. Now with that little extension I’m laying down in the backward, I won’t have to walk the skis from the garage to the lake’s edge and back to the garage when I come back.
I have to dump extra snow because the trees in the backyard kind of prevent the snow from reaching the ground. If I don’t help nature a bit, I might have to wait for a long time until there’s enough snow on the ground to groom a track.