Went and helped a friend get his Snow Cat going today. Frozen Diesel doesn't work so well.. then we drove up to his house in the forest. SO much snow even the cat had trouble. The cat being designed to groom ski slopes rather than force it's way through deep drifts in the forest.
Then the bleeder valve, which was broken by another driver who meddled, started leaking air and we konked out and had to walk back home.
While I was diggin the cat out before we left, I stepped off into the 2m high powder snow and simply disappeared! No snow shoes (those tennis racquet things) no chance of standing or walking on this stuff. At least when we walked home we had the compressed snow the cat had made on our way up. 10 mins would have been over an hour otherwise I think.
