Incredibly cold after the snowstorm through yesterday.  Single digits with 20 - 30 mph winds, with drifting through the open areas.

It was later in the afternoon than I had hoped to start snowshoeing, and I didn't know what would be plowed for parking.  I drove to Sunrise Park since it is a favorite location of mine, plus it gets plowed quickly after storms and is close to home.

One pair of tracks was slightly visible in the snow, but the wind obscured and covered the majority of the impressions.  The snow was slippery (very cold and dry) and deep (at least a foot along Whites Pond Shore for the most part, and much deeper when the wind felt like piling on).  I snowshoed the mile around the pond, and then headed back for a 2-mile semi-run.  It was very difficult going out in the deep, unbroken snow.  The cold and wind were bearable.  All in all, a pretty good day.

What Sunrise Park looks like at 8-degrees in January

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