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gcrank1
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# Posted: 1 Dec 2025 01:05pm - Edited by: gcrank1
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This past weekend we here in sc WI got hit with our 1st significant snowfall and now well below normal temps. Over Fri night and thru Sat we got 9" of heavy wet snow and now it is all freezing up.
The last time this happened we had an ice base all thru the winter  .
What this means at the cabin (45 min away) is that the snowplow threw a good berm across the driveway that has now hardened up not so nicely.
Then once we get some days back above freezing (we're expecting single digits the next few overnights) I will have to have my wife drop me off at the driveway and I'll trudge in afoot some 350' while she goes down the road to a plowed area to park. I'll hopefully be able to get the JD 1025R started and run the rear blade and FEL to clear the drive and a turn-around so we can at least get in off the narrow county road out front (NO shoulder to park on there). IF I can get it plowed down to the gravel we can get some melt off to clear (solar to the rescue!) it for getting in/out.
If not, we are done until 'sometime' several months out'.
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travellerw
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# Posted: 1 Dec 2025 04:08pm
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I have the exact same problem at our cabin. I usually have to clear the ice berm with the skidsteer.
If I'm lucky it stays cold enough that the snow remains "snow". If not, its like busting up concrete! PIA!
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DRP
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# Posted: 1 Dec 2025 04:43pm
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It looks like ours might be just ice tonite. Be safe!
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 1 Dec 2025 05:45pm
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We had 6 or so inches of snow in our mountains over several days, followed by the usual above freezing daytime temperatures. The FS road in from the county road is packed and icy for much of its twisty 4 miles. The final hill up to our cabin also faces north and has an icy base, according to our immediate neighbor. I no longer look at that as a fun thing to do. Chains would be highly recommended, and I still have them. Unless we have a nice warm, sunny month we may not be up there until spring thaw.
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Steve_S
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# Posted: 1 Dec 2025 08:30pm
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This issue actually kind of scares me now.
On Wednesday, I go in for an arterial bypass from above my heart down to my left leg and across to right leg to restore blood flow to my legs. The other option was far less pleasant. I'm going to be stuck in the hospital for at least 4 days and staying in city for 2 more. We are scheduled for snow falls and the last one yesterday dropped 6" of wet & heavy and the plows were already nasty about it. I'm really nervous about all of this.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 1 Dec 2025 08:45pm
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I hope the procedure and recovery go well, and that the snow does not cause any trouble.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 1 Dec 2025 11:34pm
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Well Steve, you're a tough hombre and survived plenty, this is another step in that journey of a thousand miles. Im sure you will give it all you can just like you always have!
I pray you will have peace leading in, successful surgery, and a recovery that will give you a better quality of life.
And we need you to keep us in line 
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FishHog
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# Posted: 2 Dec 2025 06:51am
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best of luck Steve, no local snow plowers you could hire to clear the lane before you get back home?
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Steve_S
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# Posted: 2 Dec 2025 08:35am
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There are local guys but the population up here is sparse in winter and a couple I have talked to are over booked. I have a neighbour down the road a ways who will keep an eye on my shack and offered to do some snow blowing BUT he's 73 and had a double bypass in Feb. so trying to discourage that...MAN OH MAN I'd feel guilty if something happened eh ! I'll be checking other sources today "Fingers Crossed" because even when I get home, it will be weeks before I could manhandle snow removal.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 2 Dec 2025 10:22am
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Snow isnt a problem here in central NY its enjoyed. We park down the road and snowmobile in. No need to plow as the cabin is on a seasonal road. In fact I shovel the stairs and a path to the outhouse and that's it.
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paulz
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# Posted: 2 Dec 2025 07:27pm
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No snow here, nor rain forecast this week. 41f this morning, 63 high.
Hang in there Steve! Best wishes.
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DRP
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# Posted: 2 Dec 2025 08:24pm
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There's a "new" neighbor that seems to have lost interest. There's an old International TD7 dozer sitting in the weeds for the last couple of years. I've run and been all through a TD8 in the past. I don't enjoy the moonlight hikes in as much as I used to. I'm very tempted to see if it's available for a winter buggy.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 2 Dec 2025 09:22pm - Edited by: gcrank1
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If I got there soon enough after the berm was thrown Id shovel out a car-park spot in off the road and just hike in & out each time. But now since the stroke the one walk in through the snow will be hard enough, I sure hope the tractor starts. I had fully charged the tractor bat last month off the gen and I'll also carry in my little jump pack..... It's looking like this deep cold is going to last at least another week.
Update on temp today (12-3), at noon we are at 27*f and steadily falling to a predicted -4 by sunup tomorrow, ARGGGG
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Steve_S
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# Posted: 4 Dec 2025 04:54am
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I've had the operation, 5 hours on the table and everything went well, pretty sore. Post surgery they told me 8-10 weeks recovery time. I managed to find a local sand/gravel company on Tuesday that does snow clearing, not a bad $ either, so I'm having them do the whole season. Got lucky on both counts.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 4 Dec 2025 09:22am
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So glad to hear that Steve!
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FishHog
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# Posted: 4 Dec 2025 02:12pm
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good stuff Steve, hope the recovery goes well.
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travellerw
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# Posted: 4 Dec 2025 04:35pm
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Nice to hear things went well Steve! I have a friend that is a nurse for cardiac rehab. She says the fastest way to full recovery is movement. The ones that take the longest is the ones that just lay around resting.
Hoping you have speedy recovery.
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Steve_S
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# Posted: 4 Dec 2025 07:55pm
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Thanks everyone, we have a rehab plan pretty much worked out with visiting nurses 3x a week and more. It's great to have circulation back in my legs and feet and hoping that I won't be getting Charlie horses up to my hips anymore... you'd think calves Charlie horsing is bad, when it goes up through the thighs, THAT'S EVIL and been living that getting worse for the past 3 years has been no joy as it was every time I had to walk more than 75 feet distance. Hope it's over and hope to be reasonably functional by spring... much to do.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 5 Dec 2025 10:35am
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Speedy recovery Steve!
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Ptomaine
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# Posted: 5 Dec 2025 06:37pm
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I'm a bit farther north (Price County). We got our snow starting two days before Thanksgiving; 10" or so spread over a week, and it has been nice and dry. The plow comes down my road at speed. Instead of a berm, the snow gets thrown about 10 feet out. It is a lot easier shoveling 6" of loosely packed snow than a couple feet of packed berm.
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Steve_S
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# Posted: 7 Dec 2025 07:07pm
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Home safe n sound but sore as hell... good to be home, should get a respectable sleep tonight which is terribly needed. I've got so many staples I have to stay away from magnets
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FishHog
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# Posted: 8 Dec 2025 06:13am
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Always good to get home Steve. I don't know how people heal in hospitals. Hope you improve quickly.
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paulz
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# Posted: 8 Dec 2025 07:45am - Edited by: paulz
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Quoting: FishHog I don't know how people heal in hospitals
With you there. During my extended stay (4 months) I was given an iPhone. The Moultrie trail cam and solar/battery bank were still going on the cabin porch so every time an animal would walk by I’d get a photo. Brutal.
Welcome back Steve.
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DRP
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# Posted: 8 Dec 2025 01:38pm
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I hope the recovery is swift and event free. We are snowed in today. No Hatch peppers in the house but I still had some cornmeal I had ground for Thanksgiving and the last of our jalapenos, the skillet just came out of the oven, cornbread is cooling on the counter. The snow has let up. Time to go truck sledding  . Our neighbor wandered over to use the starlink, their satellite was down. He saw fresh bear tracks about halfway up the driveway.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 8 Dec 2025 05:08pm
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We started out with -7*f at 3am then up to 2* at 7am; got to 23* this aft and we have 3 whitetail deer bedded down within 25yd of the house, pretty sure its our doe and her two yearlings. We are sitting here with the furnace keeping us at a comfy 71* and sunset, such as it is in today's overcast, soon to come.
All is good in the hunkerdown
(I could go for some of that cornbread though)
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 8 Dec 2025 11:30pm - Edited by: MtnDon
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Quoting: DRP No Hatch peppers in the house
Hatch as in chili peppers from Hatch, NM?
We have those and I love green chili with many things. Green chili apple pie. Green chili ice cream. Dark chocolate with green chili bits. Green chili mac'n'cheese is a no-brainer. Green chili baked beans. Green chili bagels. And green chili, or jalapeno cornbread is to die for.
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DRP
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# Posted: 9 Dec 2025 08:25am
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Yes, those are they. We grow peppers but sort of like a Vidalia onion, they are a little better if they come from where they do best. These jalapenos were in the high tunnel so got a good length season which is a problem here.
We nibbled our way through half that skillet of cornbread yesterday, really good. We just finished off the last of the grits from that grind. The rest of that 25 lbs sold at the farmer's market last week. I need to grind another batch. The first pone I made from this last grind had us worried. I didn't say anything but watched her reaction, she picked it up too, it had an off flavor. I made another but used name brand butter rather than store brand, everything else was the same. That was it. When food is that simple you have to use the best you can get.
Now you've given me several things to try .
We got another inch or so overnight and what melted yesterday iced over, slow morning but we had better wander in. Looks like the next round is coming Thursday.
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