Quote Originally Posted by jp View Post
but in the winter there is often no shoulder to park on because of snowbanks. And where we do park, we want to make sure it's not a surprise to drivers coming over a little hill or corner.
In the 1970s I was a student at RIT in Rochester, NY. On weekends I would find gorges which were frozen over to hike up with my 8x10 on my back and tripod over the shoulder. Sides of roads were always covered with snowbanks. My method of parking on the side of the road was to get out and shovel the snowbank as best I could. Then "Banzai" my '68 VW Beetle into the space that I had partially shoveled out. 9 out of 10 times my Bug was off the road. When I returned to the car later in the day, half of the time I was able to get out by just backing up. Other half of the time, just took me a few minutes to shovel enough of snow to again back up. Snow plows never plowed me in, and twice they plowed out the snow in front of the Beetle.