Our second snow of the winter of 1999-2000 started on the afternoon of January 20. This morning, I biked to work around 10:00 am and the paths I use were all plowed, but some were drifted pretty badly. Please send updates and reports on the conditions of other paths in Massachusetts to Doug Mink dmink@cfa.harvard.edu. (Updated January 24)

Arnold Arboretum 1.5 miles of park roads which are mostly closed to automobile traffic with no intersections Boston Parks and Harvard University	Plowed to packed powder. There was pretty good traction for my road bike tires, but there was occasional ice.
Jamaicaway Bikepath 1.5 miles of mostly bike/ped-separated paths paralleling a busy 4-lane parkway; two intersections with traffic lights Boston Parks Deparment	This was all plowed, but drifting was impassable between the Boathouse and Perkin St. (the parallel footpath was clear enough to ride) and downwind of Daisy Field, north of Willow Pond Ave., where I managed to ride through. A second pass with a plow is needed.
Olmsted Park Paths 3/4-mile of mostly bike/ped-separated paths built over River Road, , across Leverett Pond from the Jamaicaway. Brookline Park Department	This didn't look plowed.
Muddy River Path 12-foot-wide 0.6 mile shared bike/ped path with no intersections Brookline Park Department and DPW	Plowed to packed powder and a salt/sand mixture was melting that.
B.U. Bridge	Icy approaches, with bare pavement on the sidewalk over the water. There was some drifting on the Cambridge side.
Charles River Bikepath Narrow, shared bike-ped path with few intersections Metropolitan District Commission	The Cambridge side was plowed from the B.U. Bridge to Hawthorne St. (west of Harvard Square) There was some drifting, but I rode through the drifts, sometimes with my feet down for a step or two. There was very little clear pavement; it was mostly a thin layer of snow over rough ice.
Southwest Corridor Bikepath Separated Bike/Ped path with poorly-designed intersections Metropolitan District Commission	no report yet