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It snowed this weekend

As you’re probably well aware, DC got a crapload of snow this weekend. I don’t know what the official number is but in Arlington, we’re pushing two feet in some areas. I was supposed to go on a cross country ski trip in western Maryland today, but that was very much canceled due to road conditions.

Instead, I took the opportunity to ski in town! The route ended up being Rosslyn, Iwo Jima, Arlington Cemetery, Memorial Bridge, and back. All in all, probably three miles so not too crazy. Thankfully, there were tracks from people walking that I was able to stay in most of the time. XC skiing through two feet of untracked fresh snow is only slightly easier than walking through it.

After getting a decent skiing workout, I topped it off with an hour or two of shoveling my car out. For the December snow, I was parallel parked on the street. I’m parked just off the street in a little parking lot this time, which has it’s advantages and disadvantages. While I won’t get as massively plowed in, I had to shovel out a path to the road as well. The end result was a giant snow berm that’s probably 6 feet tall and 12 feet long. That baby won’t melt until April. I’ll take a picture tomorrow. Here’s the before picture and click here for the rest of my pictures from today.

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