Rough Winter

Ken Hinckley — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:35:00 GMT

I spent the weekend at Snoqualmie pass. Winter has certainly not yet relinquished its grip on the Cascade Crest. Here's some of the sights done AlpineInker style.

Here's a car that someone left parked for the winter. That probably wasn't a good idea. It's been crushed like an empty can of cheap beer. When this much snow piles up, it pancakes down - hard as concrete and twice as heavy.

Despite what these pictures suggest, quite a bit of the snow has melted. I could not see any daylight at all out my shattered kitchen window the last time I was there. The bottom of that window is about 15 feet above grade level. We lost a window on the north side of the house too. First time that ever happened...

It's been a rough winter in the Alpental valley.

Winter 2007-2008
Date of First Measurable snowfall 10/19/07
October snowfall           2
November snowfall      24
December snowfall    180
January snowfall        149
February snowfall        90
March snowfall          101
April snowfall              61
May snowfall               1
              Total         608

That's 50 FEET of snow kiddos!

Even the highway web-cams have suffered! "I fought an avalanche and the avalanche won. This camera was so badly damaged we can't repair it until this summer."

Mother's day was no exception. More snow.

Here's my wife taking the twins for a walk. Today they learned a new word: Snow!

Rule #1: No parking. Rule #2: NO PARKING!

This is, or rather was, my kitchen window...

...But there's no place I'd rather be.

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Rough Winter