I'm not the litigious type and would probably chalk it up to a learning experience, but I would say if you are at all considering legal action, I would ensure you take as much documentation as possible. Including photographic evidence of current conditions of the walk, city, other properties, at the time of the event and if you're lucky - video evidence (which, failing legal action, can also be used on America's Funniest Home Videos to try and win $10,000 or a trip to Mazatlan).
As mentioned in the posts above, you'll basically need to argue how the property owner was extremely negligent (grossly, you might say) in their duty of care to pedestrians using their pathway. Ditto if it is a city/municipality/federal (GL HF) parks owned property where it occurred. Which means it needs to be something a lot more egregious than "they didn't do a fantastic job shoveling" or "they didn't shovel within a couple hours of a snow event"
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