The first sleighing this winter.

January 13. 

A drifting snow-storm last night and to-day, the first of consequence; and the first sleighing this winter.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January 13, 1853

A drifting snow-storm, the first of consequence. See December 26, 1853 ("The first snow of any consequence thus far. It is about three inches deep.”) and note to November 29, 1856 ("This is the first snow.”) See also December 14, 1859 ("Snow-storms might be classified . . . this is a fine, dry snow, drifting nearly horizontally from the north, so that it is quite blinding to face")

The first sleighing this winter. See January 26, 1856 ("We have had good sleighing ever since the 26th of December and no thaw."); March 1, 1858 ("We have just had a winter with absolutely no sleighing."); January 2, 1860 ("The past December has been remarkable for steady cold, or coldness, and sleighing."); December 22, 1860 ("This evening and night, the second important snow, there having been sleighing since the 4th, and now")

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