Keweenaw snow photos

[civilian]

Arly, is your cohort a relative? Nice to have someone young interested in your line of work. Jon

 

[ArlyA]

Arly, is your cohort a relative? Nice to have someone young interested in your line of work. Jon

No, just the kids who live down the street. Here they are short of Andrew, there boy who helps me. Yes, he has 3 sisters!

 

[chris the wrench]

Snowing rather nicely here now.

Im jealous! We had a good start to the season here(WA State) back in November, but it's been one long high pressure system for us the past 3'ish weeks. We need a refresh. Although, Im on the sidelines with a torn rotator cuff.... Supposedly next week we have a storm rolling, but temps are going to be dangerously close to rain..

 

[ArlyA]

Its snowing here and its close to normal for us. Top photo is our snow dump made by city payloaders. You can see the right side was pushed over by me. so I can get rid of my snow. The dogs might be 18 feet up. The track marks are my atv. The street photos are taken on or street. Then the bottom 2 are neighbor kids double luge.

 

[ArlyA]

A few taken here today. We got another 6" overnight.

 

[ArlyA]

More.

 

[civilian]

So the roller is for skate style of cross country skiing? And the sled for track skiing. Just wondering. Jon

 

[ArlyA]

So the roller is for skate style of cross country skiing? And the sled for track skiing. Just wondering. Jon

No.. Rollers aren't good at breaking down snow enough for skating but they are good at compressing a larger volume of snow, like 4" and up so you can work with it later. Drags do much better at breaking down the flake wings, but take inordinate amount of HP to be towed in deeper snow falls. Like 5 and higher. The drag in the lower photo is in to much fresh snow.

 

[walhondingMF]

How many miles of trails do you work at a given time?

 

[ponytug]

@ArlyA 4k = four kilometers, or 4,000 miles?