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I have lived for more than 30 years as a Wilderness Dweller. Most of that time was in cabins I built myself far from the nearest road, high in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. My "retirement" home is accessible by a bush road but still far from neighbours. I live off the grid, and operate this blog by solar-powered satellite internet.
Life In The Wild

The Grader Cometh

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Two weeks after my road was last ploughed, I can drive it again.

Interior Roads' grader ploughing the road at Ginty Creek
The grader clearing the snow in my yard

The driver said he nearly couldn’t do it because of the snowmachines that had packed down the road.  The next stage would have been to hire a cat at $200 an hour – it would have taken much longer and I would have had to pay for road time as well.  As it was, it took an hour and a half.  I will get the bill in a couple of weeks.

Now my yard looks like a city supermarket car park with piles of dirty snow everywhere.

dirty snowpiles at Ginty Creek

I can go for mail again tomorrow.