Posted by bruce in CO on Monday, March 24, 2003 at 12:39PM :
In Reply to: Springtime in the Rockies posted by Fletch on Monday, March 24, 2003 at 11:36AM :
We were pleasantly trapped-in at the end of our 3 1/2 mile non-county-maintained road from last Monday night thru Thursday afternoon when I punched out with the '86 F250 "cornbinder" diesel with big chains on all fours. Don't give me any "Ford" crap...the old girl did her job! I could smell some clutch on the uphills when the disc slipped befire the chains did! The road had been plowed midway through the storm so I was breaking through about 2 feet. All told, we probably got just over 3 feet of accumulated snow, but it feels like we moved a lot more than that. The neighbor's CJ-5 w/ plow slipped off our driveway on the dam and ended up with the left half in the pond where it sat till the snow stopped falling on Thurs. By the time we dug it out, the snow was like wet cement and too heavy for the Jeep to plow. It took 4 hours with my little Kubota to carve out one lane down 200 yards of driveway before I could get the F250 out onto the road. On Friday, everything slid off the barn roof and it was like starting all over again in the driveway. Sunday was the first day we could get in or out without chains and everything is quickly melting into a muddy mess. We'll take more if we can get it! By the time I get photos back & scanned, the novelty will have worn off. I need to get a digital camera! I don't know how many times I told my wife that I wished the '53 B4 had been up and running! It sounds like Fletch & Dan got hit a bit harder up in the Conifer area than we did outside of Woodland Park, Bruce