Shadows on the Snow

Before we leave Muskoka, 'up north' to come back down here where it's only -20°C, I wanted to share some shadow shots.  I enjoy searching for various different interesting shadows, especially in the late afternoon sun when they look almost blue on the ground.  Since we had 3 sunny days, there were lots of shadows.

I really liked these gentle bumps down the hillside.  The bumps are clumps of grass under the snow, and the hollows down each side are drainage lines down this wet slope..

Nearby the slope was almost perfectly flat, with very different shadow patterns.

This was a little earlier in late afternoon when I headed out to walk along beside the track-set ski trail, on my snowshoes.  One of those times when having my own shadow in the picture seemed appropriate.

My own shadow is still here, but you can also see how the track-set ski trail ends as the trail heads downhill.  This is because skiers will need to snowplow  a little as they head down the hill here, to successfully make the sharp corner at the bottom!  At this jpoint they don't want to have their skis stuck in a track!

And there were lots of shadows across the trails at Arrowhead Park when we went snowshoeing.  They use the some of the summer campground roads for some of the winter trails.