2019-12-02: Snowstorm

In early December, my area experienced a severe snowstorm, where over two feet of snow fell over a period of three days. The snow was sufficient to keep me from work, and so midway through the storm I stayed home and hiked out in the woods. I walked through some fields and followed along the Eden Creek for much of the afternoon before returning home. At this point there was only about one foot of snow on the ground, but it was falling fairly heavily.

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Snow clings to pine trees along a field's edges, weighing down their branches.

Younger shrub and deciduous trees were painted a bright white by the falling snow.

The weight of the snowfall was sufficient to drag pine branches to the ground, causing damage to stiffer trees.

Snowmobile tracks line this pathway that connects two fields.

As I walked through the woods, loose chunks of snow would often fall from the treetops above. I managed to get this picture of such an event before the cloud of fallout dispersed.

Weighed-down hemlock boughs guard the Egmont Falls, which were almost completely frozen-over already.

The snow had already reached such a height that it simply fell off this fallen pine tree, unable to remain under its own weight.

A closer view of above, showing the frozen creek as it winds onward through snow-encrusted trees.

Jagged rocks in the river were turned into smooth domes by the snow. This igloo shape was marred by chunks of snow falling from the trees.

Although wind in the storm was relatively light, it was still strong enough to form notable drifts on the west-facing sides of trees.

Scraggly young pine trees, dotted with white snow, guard a clearing, which during the summer is filled with shrubs and thorns, here buried under snow.

An old car, abandoned in the woods decades ago, sits quiet in the deep snow.

A view looking west along the half-frozen Eden Creek.

More fallen pine trees serve as bridges over the slush-coated stream.

Although the snow from this storm was rather dry, it still had the traction to adhere to pine needles with relative ease.

A view of a distant forest, looking almost magical in the snowy setting.