February and lots more winter

Those couple inches of snow here and there turned into a monster amount - 3 feet. We haven't been around for this much snow since we've have the house. What a winter, what great snow!

Yup, that's Mark out in the whiteout

Much snow blowing, much shoveling, multi treks on snowshoes to clear our satellite dish of ice and snow (well, you gotta have TV right?), many visits from our neighbor to clear our driveway plus our road snow removal guy with heavy duty equipment. He, by the way, spent two 15 hour days trying to keep up with the snow and keep the roads open. It's exhausting just writing this...

After it was all over, I went out to assess and start breaking the snowshoe trail, again.Something interesting in both the above photos, no fence. The snow depth has taken over and we have at least 6 weeks for more.

Crested Butte got even more than we did and the town was digging out when we went in for lunch and some cross country skiing.

Avalanches are everywhere right now including right here at home at Star Mt. One blocked Carbon Creek until the county could get out to clear. Accident just yesterday with a snowmobiler at Kebler Pass killed in an avalanche. Denver TV spends time every day pleading for back country skiers and snowmobiles to stay off. It's crazy out there.

The back end views of Crested Butte we don't often see. We were exploring the nordic trail area via car this time. It's a complicated set of trails that a map does not explain fully.

And what is this? Says barbecue on the bottom, coming soon on the top. Really...may have to see what that's about this summer.

And late on list of books read, of course. Anatomy of Murder by Imogen Robertson - number 2 in her British 17th century murder mystery - excellent series. The Sisters Antipodes by Jane Alison - very good memoir of her childhood, but disturbing. How two sets of diplomat parents switched partners with each other. How to devastate children should have been the title. I found her from the historical fiction class where she was a guest author.Very talented. And lastly, Paris in Love, a memoir by Eloise James. Excellent also, she is a romance novelist and esteemed professor at Fordham University (she hid the romance writing for some years -thought backlash -probably correctly!)
Countdown for company. Heather's coming in 10 days!