So much snow in the road.

March 5. 

Snowed an inch or two in the night. Went to Carlisle, surveying. 

It is very hard turning out, there is so much snow in the road. Your horse springs and flounders in it. 

The snow in the wood-lot which I measured was about two feet on a level.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, March 5, 1856

There is so much snow in the road.  See February 12, 1856 ("forty three days of uninterrupted cold weather, . . .twenty-five days the snow was sixteen inches deep in open land!!”); February 19, 1856 ("the snow has been deeper since the 17th than before this winter. I think if the drifts could be fairly measured it might be found to be seventeen or eighteen inches deep on a level.”); March 27, 1856 ("People do not remember when there was so much old snow on the ground at this date.”); March 30, 1856 ("For twenty-five rods the Corner road is impassable to horses, because of their slumping in the old snow; and a new path has been dug, which a fence shuts off the old.”)