Digging out

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager.

Photo: Daniel Barringer

We’re pleased to say we’re all cleared out at Crow’s Nest Preserve. Cody started plowing last evening and resumed this morning. The visitor center walkways have been shoveled a couple of times. So if you are interested in doing a little cross-country skiing or getting outdoors in some sunny, beautiful scenery, we are here.

That said, at this writing (10:45 am) I haven’t seen a single car go by, other than Natural Lands staff. So conditions on public roads may not be great. And keep in mind that the gravel parking lot we can plow most of the surface snow off of, but gravel can’t be plowed down to expose all the stone without digging up and damaging the surface, so the parking lot is a thin layer of snow and stone.