Ari Goldberger temporarily solved a commuting nightmare by living out a child's snow-day dream.

Goldberger, a 29-year-old guitar technician in the Boston area, was bicycling from work on the night of Feb. 11 when he noticed that the bike path ahead was blocked by what he later described as a "15-foot mountain of snow," presumably the result of ploughs piling up the city's ceaseless snowfall.

After carrying his bike over the giant mound, Goldberger posted a photo to his Facebook page, and asked for leads on public transportation contacts that he could call to deal with the issue. Instead, Goldberger received a suggestion from his former coworker that he couldn't turn down:

"Get some friends together and tunnel through it," Shadron Davis, the friend, wrote in a comment. "Bonus: natural beer chiller while we work."

On the following Monday, Goldberger began working with Davis and a handful of members of the Boston Bike Party, a community for group bike rides, to begin what was jokingly dubbed "Big Dig II," a reference to the never-ending road construction project in Boston proper. After hours of digging on Monday, they were still only half done.

(For those who may be wondering: Yes, he could have biked down a different route, but that would have led him through a "really big" intersection he doesn't like. And okay, maybe it's not the smartest idea to ride a bicycle anywhere during the worst winter in recent Boston history, but then again, maybe you just don't understand hardcore cyclists like Goldberger. I know I don't.)

While they dug, the occasional visitor would stop by to watch. Some, according to Goldberger, said it was "pretty cool." Others simply stared. No one criticized the effort in person, though he later read concerns online that the resulting tunnel would collapse — concerns he said he personally debunked.

"I actually rode right into the end of the wall, which I only did because we had three other people with cellphones and shovels at the ready," Goldberger recalled in an interview with Mashable. "My tire went up it and there was no sign of any impending doom."

In fact, he said the snow structure was so fixed in place that the tire mark was still exactly as it was on Thursday when the group of diggers finally finished what ended up being a 40-foot-long snow tunnel.

Ari Goldberger straddling his bike at the entrance of the then still unfinished snow tunnel he helped build in the Boston area.

For two glorious days, Goldberger and his cohorts could bike through the feat of nature and amateur architecture. Cyclists in the area filmed themselves going in and out of the tunnel. One "older lady" walking her dogs applauded Goldberger's effort over the sound of loud barking. In some small way, Goldberger said he had helped these people who were living through a frozen hellscape.

And then heartbreak.

Video footage of the Wellington T-Stop snow-tunnel! / cc @OnlyinBos, @universalhub A video posted by BBP (@bostonbikeparty) on Feb 20, 2015 at 9:22am PST

Late Saturday, Goldberger discovered that the tunnel had been knocked down. Even worse, a large boulder of snow had been left by the entrance. Hours of labor and here he was again: stuck behind a roadblock.

"I’m guessing it was kind of a cover-your-ass type move from the MBTA," Goldberger said, referring to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

As Mashable interviewed him on Sunday, Goldberger was leaving his house to head back to the site of the tunnel to remove the boulder, and help clear the path. "I have several people mobilizing to do this," he said, before noting reports of a snow plow in the area that may beat them to it.

The decimated tunnel, as seen on Saturday night.

No matter what happens, though, the snow tunnel is dead. But Goldberger has no regrets.

"It was definitely a fun thing ... haven’t you always wanted to make a giant giant snow tunnel?" he said. "Given the opportunity, I might do it again, but I really hope that the opportunity doesn’t present itself."