Winter 2010/2011 - ENOUGH ALREADY!
By Bennett Owen
My Uncle Robert says this is the toughest winter he's ever experienced in southwest Montana and he's pretty tough himself. Now we read that the Sylvan Pass road into Yellowstone Park has been re-opened to 'limited' traffic after being blocked by severe avalanches…
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The Cody Enterprise has the whole story.
Up at Lake Tahoe the first stage of the Tour of California was cancelled due to snow.
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My sister reported dollar-sized snowflakes falling in Salt Lake mid May, even as I celebrated my 29th birthday (making me the same age as my mom and just as big a lia…err, exaggerator!). Come to think of it, I remember crying on my 10th birthday because I couldn't play baseball…the reason…it was snowing too hard.
“Montana is where you take your snow tires off in May…and regret it in June…”