Winternight Wonderland Adventure of DEATH

[Amake]

So I stepped off a bus today and wanted to take a shortcut over a snowdrift, thinking I could Legolas that sucker. I stepped up fine, one very tall step, and with my next step I plummeted heel over frickin head into two feet of light, almost gaseous powder. It became roughly four feet deep before I got through to the ploughed road, and I was wading in snow up to my tits. Never done that before, I thought, so I went out to search for a crevice where the snow might have gathered deep enough to swim in. In which case I'd probably not swim so much as sink like a ship sailing over a gas pocket. Also CC gave me the idea to document it on camera, which sucked because my camera is 3/4 dead and doesn't believe in light reflected from snow banks. Nonetheless:


I thought I should document the Land of Streetlights and Ploughed Roads where the adventure begins. Note the two foot snow layer on top of the freaking fence.


Down towards the river, there's still some streetlights keeping the dark at bay, but wide untouched fields of snow. In summer this is a wide untouched field of grass where sometimes children play.


This is not an excavator with speed lines but just an unsteady hand and a crappy camera. It is however a tiny excavator parked on someone's front lawn, buried in snow. Someone's not going to get their gardening project done this year.


Darkness presses in, and there's no road left. A track of footsteps tell us I'm not the first one to go this way tonight. We can see the forest looming in the distance.


I tried to photoshop in a little visibility here, but ugh. I don't even know what this picture is here for, since the one I took with the flash on is much better. You can see how dark it would be if it wasn't for the faint glow of the snow, I guess


A narrow path through the woods, which if you follow it for about a kilometer leads to a nice resting place with a wooden bench and a table overlooking the river. But we're not going to follow it quite that far.


Here's the ravine, built up from a once large tributary to the river cutting through the soft earth. Unfortunately it's filled with young trees that have managed to block out the snowfall, completely ruining my swimming pool plan. The powder down there wasn't deeper than three or four feet. Which didn't stop me from splashing around like an ice seal of course. It was so much fun I forgot to take pictures.

How anticlimactic.

Soo what are you doing to the winter? Or with it?