Snow Finally

:date: 2022-01-17 20:26 :tags:

Thanks to everyone who recently said hi. Hi!

I've been kind of annoyed recently that we're now well into mid January and we still haven't had a proper snow where I wasn't tearing up my skis. No snowfall yet this year has been able to completely cover a pencil sized twig. If I lived in San Diego, that's excusable, but I live in the American suburb of Canada's largest city (basically). But we can put that annoyance behind us now and concentrate on not dying in a car accident on icy roads because it did finally snow properly. Yay!

I am visiting Erie this weekend and there was finally an impressive snow storm on the Lake Erie shore last night. Quite impressive. All of this fell in about 6 hours.

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I'm a snow shovelling enthusiast and I spent nearly 2 hours on this lot even with D driving the snow monster.

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Of course, the whole reason I personally want some snow is so that I can ski. And today we went from zero to too much  —  but there is never too much! But without any groomed (or well traveled) areas, this huge amount of snow can be quite tricky if not impossible to negotiate.

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But I'm certainly not complaining about a lot of snow! Huge amounts of snow stand a better chance of surviving the 50F/10C rain that will no doubt be here within days. So I'll take it!

You can see that I'm finally getting a chance to test the new hand covers I designed and made. These are designed to be completely windproof while not cutting off circulation. These allow you to use ski poles with very thin gloves; here I'm actually not wearing any gloves under these.

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For now, skiing in the street actually works fine and I really enjoyed it. This snow should be good for at least a few more days of skiing and that makes me very happy.