Another snowfall this morning, so we were out shoveling. The piles of snow along the driveway are now as tall as Evan. Ready for a chinook now…
Tag: snow
giant slurpee
the bow river, along Memorial Drive, freezing over. what hasn’t frozen solid is a sludge of flowing slush.
cruising
cruising along the dry pond flat at the bottom of our local tobogganing hill.
the sun popped behind the houses and mountains just as we started tobogganing. lots of great dry powder means the hill was fast, and we didn’t wind up getting soaked with wet melting snow. perfect conditions.
subarctic bus stop
waiting for the bus this morning, with fresh snowdrifts piling up in occasionaly near-blizzard conditions.
tracks
a single trail of footsteps leads from a sidewalk and through the snow across a field at the university of calgary.
sheltered
evan’s plant from beavers camp has been doing well lately, providing some much needed green against the ice outside
mountain view
the front driveway, after taking an hour to shovel off the accumulated white crap. winter fracking sucks.
calling mr. plow
driving northwest on crowchild trail, one of the busiest arteries of calgary’s roads. no sign of a snow plow, and I was thankful to have 4wd.
busweather
much of my 14km ride is like this – up to 6 inches of loose snow piled over slush and ice, leaving only narrow clear tracks in the centre of the road where it’s safe to ride. but cars don’t like to share that one narrow track. not much fun to ride in the slog. i’ll be parking the bike until the roads clear up a bit more. riding on ice and snow is no problem, and is surprisingly fun, but this stuff just sucks the joy out of the ride. it does give one hell of a good upper body workout, from wrestling with the bike the entire time to stay upright…