Sisyphus Complex

I'm starting to get a Sisyphus complex about this snow drift just off the opening on the west side of the deck:

I just get it cleared, then the wind comes up and it closes right up again.  As you can see, it is all the way to the top of the deck railing.

Unlike the Greek king condemned to a lifetime of rolling a rock up a hill, I decided to go with the flow.  For some reason, the snow does not drift over here directly south of the cabin:

I've decided it's easier to climb over the deck railing and make my way out through this snow, which is not nearly as deep.  I still use the ski pole which makes me feel a little like this:

Can you imagine doing this in a skirt, and look at that pack!  This is what Wikipedia has to say about Elizabeth Le Blond:

Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed (1860 - July 27, 1934) was a British pioneer of mountaineering in a time when it was almost unheard of for a woman to climb mountains. She was also an author and a photographer of mountain scenery.
She came from an upper class background, being the daughter of Captain Sir St Vincent Hawkins-Whitshed, 3rd Baronet (1837-1871) (see Hawkins-Whitshed Baronets) by his wife Anne Alicia (née Handcock) (1837-1908), and further back was descended from the aristocratic Bentinck family, and was therefore related to the Dukes of Portland.
She was born in London, but grew up in Greystones, County Wicklow in the south-east of Ireland, where her father owned quite a bit of land. However, her father then died, leaving no other children, while she was still a minor, and the Lord Chancellor took her on as his ward.
Elizabeth moved to Switzerland, where she climbed mountains in her skirt. In 1907, she became the first president of the Ladies Alpine Club. She wrote seven books on mountain climbing and over her lifetime climbed twenty peaks that no one had climbed before.
As Mrs Aubrey Le Blond she made at least 10 films of alpine activities in the Engadine Valley of Switzerland, including ice hockey at St Moritz and tobogganing on the Cresta Run. She is probably among the world's first three female film-makers, after Alice Guy and contemporary with Laura Bayley. Her films were shown by James Williamson at Hove Town Hall in November 1900, being included in his catalogue in 1902, and were praised by the film pioneer Cecil Hepworth and the writer E. F. Benson.
She married three times: firstly, in 1879, to Frederick Gustavus Burnaby (1842-1885); secondly, in 1886, to John Frederick Main (died 1892); and thirdly, in 1900, to Francis Bernard Aubrey Le Blond. From her first marriage, she had a son Harry Burnaby, in 1880. Despite her second and third marriages, the lands at Greystones that she had inherited from her father (before marriage) were to be known as the Burnaby Estate. This part of Greystones (The Burnaby) was developed after 1900. It includes Burnaby Road, Somerby Road, as well as Whitshed, St. Vincent's, and Portland Roads, and Hawkins Lane. She published accounts of her climbing under the names Mrs. Fred Burnaby, Mrs. Main, and Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond.
She published her autobiography Day In, Day Out in 1928.

These photos are from The Elizabeth Main LeBlond Photographic Collection as seen on The Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum web site.

Omg.  Is she going to cross this or is she just looking?

Now this looks like a lot more fun!  I don't know if she's second from the front or second from the back, but that guy on the end definitely looks as if he'd been caught having wrong thoughts. 

What a woman!  I guess after reading this and looking at these photos, getting from the cabin to the car won't seem quite such a challenge.  What challenged you today?  Teddee