Yesterday it snowed HARD all day. A wet sloppy snow accompanied by high winds - depending on location it was a blizzard. We spent most of the day inside by the fire, but did get out for 2 very different dog walks.
I was worried the snow would turn to rain (and it did in the evening) and so the first 'walk' was a cross country ski in the trees above Buskin Lake. Nora drove out with me and stayed in the car while I took the dogs skiing. It was a full on blizzard. You could barely see the road and all the trees were swaying in the wind. But once in the trees it was surprisingly calm. And the snow was just pouring down and sticking to everything. All the trees were pasted with white and the trunks black. We skied to the river and back, and saw my first bear tracks of 2022. The bears are coming out of hibernation.
Later in the day, Nora and I took the dogs under the spruce trees at Abercrombie. Some snow was making it down to the ground under the trees but not much. In places you could see the tree tops and all the spruce boughs were weighted down with snow. It was snowing just as hard up above as it had been on the earlier walk, and when we got to the lake you could see the storm raging outside the trees. But in the trees it was a bright green sanctuary.
Same day, same town, same storm, but two very different walks.
Patrick
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