[editor-surveyor]

"This past winter was very difficult for many."

IIRC, I posted pictures of my daughter's horses standing in snow up to their hackles, in the hills above Golden.

[Uri’el-2012]

XS> "This past winter was very difficult for many."

IIRC, I posted pictures of my daughter's horses standing in snow up to their hackles, in the hills above Golden.

South Park, where this took place, always has harsh winters.

The wind blows from the west gusting up to 50 & 60 mph.

It is a very wide and long flat bottomed valley with no trees.

I live in the next county over, Chaffee county
which is known as the banana belt because of mild winters

We had the most severe winter in memory.

South Park has been closed due to blizzards
more than once this winter.

I can only guess that there were no fences
of any kind to keep the livestock in.

The fences were most likely all covered in snow and ice.