After all the big snows ended, we got about 4 1/2 ft for the month, it was mostly plowing and shoveling snow for a week or so. Then it was time to put the sled dog trail back in. I did get the dogs out for one run on the sled before the big rainstorm hit, but since then there was nowhere to run them with all the ice and snow covering the trails. Tried to get out on the Ski Doo the other day, but my neighbor came by, told me his truck was stuck in the road, so spent the rest of the afternoon helping him. Then the temps dropped to well below zero, the Ski Doo is hard to start when it's real cold, so figured it'd be easier to just snowshoe the trails in. Well that was a good idea maybe twenty or thirty years ago but not so much now. After three days on the snowshoes, I'd only gotten a half a mile of trail in. But the worst part was that every time I went back out, the moose had wandered down the trail, stomping tracks (post holing) the trail. When I went out today, not only did they stomp in what I did yesterday, they apparently followed behind me and stomped in some of the trail I'd fixed today. I think I'm done with this for awhile.
So this is what you look like after snowshoeing at twenty below. There's probably better ways to spend your time; I think I'll look into it.
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