by Bryce Nielson
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| Bryce Nielson |
It happens every year. Fear of a drought. People and media worry themselves to death about water for the summer or how low Bear Lake will go. Will California be able to raise the vegetables we want to eat? What a waste of anxiety and it was only January. I have been in Salt Lake the last week and they really didn't have anything, but then the "high pressure" was breaking down. Here comes the Pineapple Express! Snow.......
The weather will do what it will do. We can predict it and respond to it but we can't control it so quit worrying about it. As I worked my way up Logan Canyon yesterday it was readily apparent that winter has arrived and I am stuck.
The next morning we are snowed in. Logan Canyon is closed. Then the work starts. Three feet on the deck, blower opening, 12 inches......
Well it snowed all day and is still snowing. So far Tony's Grove has added five feet in this storm. There are avalanches in the canyon, a constantly narrowing road and of course, pow pow. I haven't even seen my turkeys lately. But we got our "moisture", we won't die of thirst and all the newcomers now know what a "Bear Laker" storm is. Enjoy the snow!
The winter in Bear Lake stays crazy. I do believe the climate is changing but I am
not sure why. I am still fascinated by
the weather. In the old days, when were
didn't have computer or the internet to check on snow depths at the NRCS Snotel
sites, things were different. This
actually so long ago the Muddled Male and the Unmuddled Mathematician were still
kids. We judged in intensity of the
winter by watching the snow level on fence posts. I always watched the old log, drift fence in
the Sinks just after you went over the Summit toward Logan. When it finally was covered with snow, I
figured we had a normal snow year. As
the past forty years have passed by, it seemed that it would be covered but we
didn't seem to have the same amount of snow.
Last fall walked down to the fence to check it out. Sure enough, over the years, the snow and
snowmobiles had smashed it down about two feet from years ago. Now I watch the metal fence posts on the lay
down fence below Franklin Basin turnoff
and check Snotel.
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| Cars sliding off the roads on the icy hillsides kept people at home last week. Photo by Angie McPhee |
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