Checking Burned Trees

Carol and I strapped on the snowshoes today to check on the burned area on our property and to see if we could (later) drop some of the burned trees horizontally to keep the ash from flowing down hill when all this snow melts.

The going was rough as much of the snow was wind blown and fine granular which did not even support us even with snowshoes. We also would break through and one leg would drop down about 2' into the snow. We did discover that the area we were concerned about was not at risk for a mud slide and there were plenty of live trees to stop any mud flow.

I would estimate that we have snow accumulation now on the ground of approximately 4' or deeper in some areas. We have a total according to my measure of 164" so far and a prediction of more snow in the next week. This snow is much different that the snow we are used to in the past as it is a very fine granular and even with snowshoes  very hard to walk in.