Winter at a military training range

Young birch woods and sometimes even a bit older trees use to grow on edges of impact polygons, but borders of  normal forests are easily identifiable because of wide passages cut to keep potential fires at bay. These are either well-kept because of frequent checks or half-forgotten, harrowed by wheels of heavy vehicles and full of small ponds with shambling edges. This path turned me back when I tried to walk there for the first time. But I was a bit more daring few years later, I did not want to enter deep snow and the ice appeared solid. Soon, my boots were full of cool mountain water.

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