Posts Tagged ‘snow’

The Great Blizzard Comes to Town

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

The Great Blizzard of 2011 has come to town and apparently Moviagrar Nature wanted to remind us all who wears the pants around here. Things started to get messy Tuesday afternoon and continued until late Wednesday morning. Overall, we accumulated over 21 inches of snow in less than 24 hours! Some of the snow drifts here were almost taller than me. Despite being snowed in, losing power for several hours and listening to the wind howl all night long, we were finally able to dig ourselves out after a few hours on Wednesday morning with our fancy new snow blower (one of the best investments we’ve ever made!). Paula later whipped up a batch of “snow cream” (I’m guessing this is a Southern thing, but picture tasty vanilla ice cream - made with snow! :) ), and we enjoyed a relaxing snow day indoors. The roads are still too unsafe to travel on, but we expect things to return back to business as usual by tomorrow. Check out the link below for all the blizzard pics.

The Great Blizzard of 2011

A view out our front door as the 2011 blizzard sweeps the land

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Snowshoeing at Night

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

If you’d told me three months ago I would voluntarily venture out in over 4 feet of snow, at night, in a snowstorm - to walk around for no particular reason - I would have told you that you were crazy.

Turns out, it’s a lot of fun. :)

Last week Adam and I ventured out with 23 of my workmates to Les Paccots, a small skiing village about 1.5 hours outside of Geneva. The group left work around 5 pm and caravan-ed up to the mountain top. The weather forecast called for snow that evening and mother nature delivered!

Once there, we bundled ourselves up appropriately and strapped on our snowshoes. (If you check out our pictures you’ll see that this isn’t a particularly sexy look.) We hiked about an hour up the mountain to the chalet, where we stopped for a delicious dinner of (what else) fondue!!

After stuffing ourselves silly (ok and maybe the wine helped a bit too), we hiked back down the mountain, turned in our gear and headed back to Geneva.

It certainly was quiet around work the next day…

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