A park worker measures a 22-foot snowdrift Monday near the bus terminus for Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park.
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Utah’s snowpack is 300% of normal. I doubt it will all melt before new snow in the Fall.
2 posted on
05/25/2011 7:16:17 AM PDT by
lurk
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Pretty much the same situation with Tioga Pass (SR 120) from Highway 395 into Yosemite Nat’l Park. Very heavy snow, snowed last week, and they are not sure when it will open, maybe late June.
3 posted on
05/25/2011 7:20:15 AM PDT by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Snow was 36’ deep when I worked there in 1982. There is no snow plow that I know of that can plow that kind of snow. They used rotary Snow Blast snow blowers attached to 4x4 loaders. They could only blow out snow to a depth of 23 feet. Snow over that depth had to be pushed with a bulldozer. The story did come form the Republic of Boulder.
4 posted on
05/25/2011 7:22:21 AM PDT by
mountainlion
(A nation that forgets it's past has no future. WinstonChirchill)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
5 posted on
05/25/2011 7:29:38 AM PDT by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Breath-taking road to travel.Three years ago we were
on the Gold Wing with wind blasts so strong I was scared
we were gonna be blown off the road
The first time we went out there and camped in Estes Park
it was August and we like to have froze,the next night we
learned they have sleeping bags for greenhorns to the mtns
6 posted on
05/25/2011 8:32:08 AM PDT by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
7 posted on
05/25/2011 9:54:27 AM PDT by
wyokostur
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Spend a few days in Estes Park back in 1980 and backpacked up to an area called Lost Lake. Outstanding scenery.
8 posted on
05/25/2011 10:04:49 AM PDT by
Rebelbase
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