It’s every winter! 9 months a year.
Montana above 6000 ft elevation, you'd better be ready for HARD winter conditions all year round. (Same rule about the elevation applies all the way down the Rockies)
The Homestead right now (elev 4500) is -15 F, nice bright sun and about 2 1/2 feet of snow ---- where it hasn't drifted.
Usually start to see the melt begin about now but at the current rate we'll be lucky to see dirt before April.
....and we're counted as Banana Belt compared to the rest of Montana.
Sounds too familiar!
I was in Bozeman. Nice place, but you have to like cold and winter sports. At least 5k feet in elevation. I only got Spring when I drove out of Montana in June, for my summer assignment.
I remember sometimes in late May, we’d get a day in the high 40’s or so and the college students would lay outside on towels getting some sun - shirtless - careful to put their towels on a place with no snow.
Tip: roads that lead into Montana also lead out.
Can you put up with the liberals in Bozoman, Montana?
How is the medical care there?
*Beginning early scoping out of places to retire!
(cost-of-living)
(medical care)
(decent groceries)
(state taxes)
(do they tax social security)
(not overrun with jihadists or blue haired SJWs or drugs)