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21 feet of snow

Published on February 27, 2008 in Snow storm. 0 Comments

Up at the ski area, they carefully measure how much snow has fallen. This year they’ve gotten 21 feet. The first storm dropped a solid 6 feet of snow; it has accumulated steadily since then, and it disappears as well through sublimation. There hasn’t been a melt, but so much snow has sublimed that 21 feet of snowfall is more like six or eight feet of accumulation, and less where the wind hits it. These are some shots at 10,000 feet.

This provides a new twist on the old snow-covered mailbox photo

You can see there is a lot of snow compared to a dog

Here is each individual snowstorm, layer after layer, worn away by the wind,

and the most remarkable sight is one that doesn’t even register. When you see a field, it is completely untracked.

There is not a single animal that walked across this field, marring its perfection. When snow falls this deep, it is a perfect blanket.

Another Snow Day

Published on February 7, 2008 in Snow storm. 0 Comments

After we cleared the roof, there was another big storm. So much snow fell in town that there was no place to put it. City government shut down, and so did the schools and the airport. I mentioned before how hard it is to show the scale of deep snow, since it falls everywhere.

Here you can see that the snow is over six feet high at the side of the road, but that is moved by machine. It’s the handwork that takes so much attention.

This is the path from the house to the barn.

Remember, this is a big dog.

There is really a lot of snow here.

Gone skiing.

Six feet of snow

Published on January 2, 2008 in Snow storm. 0 Comments