The prior snowstorm yielded nearly seven times the forecast. This weekend’s storm tripled expected, thus expected is a relative term for my local weather folk. The snow also consistently blows sideways versus down, building and drifting in ways that I am still getting my mind around, but am optimistic that I will.
It is sugar snow too; way too cold to pack, stick or bond in anyway. It is literally billions of individual objects freely formed and fully independent upon the ground. Yesterday was a test run for Moon Bug – taking it out back into the fields where a foot of snow already existed to see if I could get stuck (better here than half way down the mountain). It was time to test the limits and see how she moves.
Nearly 30 inches of mostly sugar snow, the skid panels were bottoming out, but she moved quite normally.
Steering in this fluff is a bit enigmatic; it is hard to get a bite with the front tracks at times.
