My parents' cabin this last March (2002). They don't have snowmobiles, nor do they tend to make the 8 mile or snowshoe trek out to it in the winter, so I kind of get to use it a bit. :-) The bottom of the door is somewhere between 2 and 3 feet of the ground, for some reference as to the snow depth. Piss-poor winter. Should be at least twice that, but I guess it was better than none. One always sees snowshoes standing outside in the snow in pictures. I always assumed it was for effect, until I started snowshoeing myself. If you take them inside, they get warm, and then the snow melts and sticks to them when you take them back out. Leave them outside, and you avoid this problem. or, if you have taken them inside, you can stick them in the snow by the tails like that so they can cool off, and only the tails will have a bit of snow frozen to them. To the right, the orange thing is a plastic toboggan with which I towed food, water, shovel, axe, and such stuff into camp. Compare to a few hours later after I removed the snow from the roof.
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