Editor's Note: Snow and Strategy

But those who can eschew cars and commutes, the little and not-so-little lovers of frigid fun, take to city streets and suburban hills and vales with sleds and boards and dogs to make the best of a much-loved but none-too-frequent snow day. The frigid onslaughts of flakes leave in their wakes days in which sunlight dances off the shiny veneer of perfectly frosted fields. The world is a big, lush cake and the snow its sweet, white icing.