I went on a run out in the natural lands today for the first time since the snow fell. It's been hovering around freezing for the last week, but definitely gets warm enough to melt during the day and cold enough to refreeze during the night. This makes for treacherous, though entertaining, running. I got to the end of a mile long loop that connects to the loop around Skoglund pond and realized that the Skoglund pond loop... had no snow on it! Someone had come by with a snowplow or something and moved all of the snow out of the way! I almost laughed out loud. It seemed so out of place in this snow covered landscape for someone to come and clear the snow away on a path in the natural lands. While it was safer, it sure wasn't natural.
A little later in the run I was fighting my way through the ice-snow on the loop below Ytterboe that goes right by the wind-turbine clearing when I saw a deer! She stood and watched to see if I'd go the other direction, and when I came running towards her, she ran off the train, jumping high in the air as she went. It's not often I see animals besides squirrels on campus, and this redeemed my snowplow experience 100%. Overall, a good day in the natural lands.
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