Iremember walking almost 10 miles to school (and back home), up hill both ways in snow up to about mid thigh.
Sometimes the snow was so deep we would be forced to tunnel for miles. If it was too bad we would actually set up underground colonies and camp there until the snow melted some, usually about 3 days or so. We survived on squirrels and gophers we would catch.
Actually I did walk home in the snow some 10 miles or so (I’ll have to clock it off next time I’m down there).
Fortunately, it wasn’t up hill each way!
Describing your summers spent in Canada, eh? ;-)