Back from Vegas!

 We've been gone since last Wednesday, arrived back home last night.  Chimene was nice enough to do the snowfall measuring, and she totaled 7.75 inches.  With the 2.5 we got last night, we are now well over 12 feet...and it's snowing now.  I just received notice from Ouray County Sheriff that 550 is closed from here to Purgatory Ski starting tonight until further notice for "winter maintenance."  There were two more deadly avalanches in the state over the weekend, triggered by snowmobilers and skiers in the back country, and I can only imagine what they're dealing with over Red Mountain Pass and Molas Pass.  It has been a season.

As I said before, MFL is getting really hard to navigate.  If we stay in the ruts, it's doable, but Mike has had to park the TT.  The ruts are too deep for it to avoid scraping the bottom of the car.  This is the first time in the three winters this has happened because the melt/freeze has been significant this year.  This reminds me so much of the cars young children drive at amusement parks where there's only one way the rail will go.  

Views above and below of our roof glacier


Back of our house:  layers of ice, snow, ice, snow.

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