[azbackpackr]

I just talked to my favorite woman rancher, Sug Peters, who owns Slade Cabin, which you pass on the way to Baldy. She said that Baldy got 33 FEET, yes I said 33 FEET of snow this year. She said that unless it gets very warm it is likely to be one of those years, which she said she has seen a few times in her life, that the snow will not completely melt off Baldy during the summer.

So it will be interesting to see if anyone will try to get up there and report back here. Of course, the roads are not even going to be open for awhile.

Sug told, me about extensive damage to cabins in Greer, many of which she said never should have been built, because they are not built to withstand a real winter. Those big, tall monstrosities that have all those silly gables and such. She said the weight of the ice and snow would slide down the steep roofs and onto the roofs of the decks and smash them flat. She said in some cases the ice sliding off the roofs would curl under as it hit the eaves, breaking all the big plate glass windows. She said most of the ones with the gables are all leaking because the ice gets in underneath all those joins in the roofing and gets in under the flashing. She said for some reason the County allowed cabins to be built on a 26% north-facing slope and that the owners of those cabins will not be able to easily get to them before the 4th of July! In many cases, stovepipes, bathroom vents and any other protrusion from from the roofs, and all gutters have been sheared off.

At Hidden Meadow Ranch where I worked last summer, I have heard about the damage there, as well. Four feet thick of solid ice on a roof is never going to be a good thing...

I guess there is still plenty of snow if I want to go skiing again. I have been cloistered at home with my books...

[dysfunction]

Oh yea, I've now just added it to my 'to-do' list for this spring. I love snow.

[azbackpackr]

Well, let me know if you want company! Time has been a real problem for me lately, though.