From Seattle south there was not much snow fall, but from where we live in Arlington, and north up through mt. Vernon and further, it was pretty heavy. Up to 36" fell in 24 hours just north of us. The Tercel4wd had done well so far, here are some pictures.
wed afternoon where I had to abandon the Tercel, about 200 vertical feet and 1/4 mile from home up some steep grades. I might have made it up but there was a guy walking up the hill, the snow was wet and slippery, and too deep. I had to avoid the pedestrian and got stuck in the shoulder. So we got unstuck and parked it here. We had about 50 to 60 lbs of groceries and supplies to haul up on foot from here. Good thing I brought my good backpack to carry it all. That is my neighbor's car parked in front of me, a 4x4 Suzuki Vitara with studded snow tires, he could not make it up the hill either.
We finished lugging the supplies up the hill just before dusk. We grabbed the ski gear and put a few tracks in the fresh snow down our driveway. As you can see it is snowing rather heavy, and it did so for most of the night. this is young family friend Quinn trying out skis for the first time. He has lots of time on a snow board, but this is his first time on skis. He did well after my expert tutelage (I have been skiing for 38 years). The power went out and we had to ski by LED flash light, which added to the fun. Normally multiple flood lights make for good night skiing on our property, but not this night.
So we had dinner by candle light, and watched a DVD on the batteries of a laptop computer. It was a cold dark night, the power finally came back on about 6 am. The morning, wed was cold and clear. Beautiful! Look at the snow build-up on our deck rail and the bird feeder! You can just see the thermometer on the deck rail showing just below freezing.
Shot of the yard, under each of those snow piles is an '86 Tercel4wd, a '88 All-Trac, and a Mazda MPV 4wd.
Winter trees always look better laced with snow and sunshine. these are in our yard just up hill from our front door.
Our springer spaniel had to make the rounds of the trees and bushes looking for birds. she loves to play in the snow, almost deeper than she is tall.
OUr house and driveway under its new snow, we started growing some icicles today. The picture is taken about half way down the driveway, you can see our ski tracks right down the center.
My '86 project Tercel4wd. Most of this snow fell in 24 hours!
lower part of our driveway, trees bent way down over the roadway, my ski tracks go around on the left side.
roadway in front of our house, not many passed this way this morning. looks like someone made it down, but no one going up today!
view out our front door. Young Quinn getting ready for another run down our driveway.
There he goes! This is about where we normally park our cars. Good thing they are out of the way for skiing!
After the morning skiing, I thought I should try and get to my office and get some work done today. So I skied down our road to where I left the Tercel, and this is how I found it.
After shoveling the snow off it started up, and I had to rock it back and fourth to cut a track back out to the center of the road. Made in without incident. Hopefully I will make it home without too much fuss tonight.
