OUR MOUNTAIN WITH WINTER SNOWS

As the snow at the roadside turned dirty with cinders and the rocks on the southern exposures of the mountains began to show, I was thinking of spring. But this morning we wakened to 6 more inches of snow, so I decided to add some mountain snow pictures to my blog.


View of Crested Butte Mt from Top of Goldlink

Snow on Trees at top of Gold Link

Snow on Trees at the Top of East River

Rock at Top of Teocalli Bowl

Entrance to Teocalli Bowl

View from the North Face

View from Rachael's Run

At the Top of the Silver Queen Lift

Entrance to Hard Slab on the North Face

View from Top of Hard Slab

Teocalli Mountain from Ski Run

Teocalli Mt from the Silver Queen Lift

WINTER '08 IN CRESTED BUTTE, COLORADO

The face of winter - a hard time for the wildlife


The snow piled up, burying the homes and stores




The sidewalks and streets of town were hard to keep clear.


The snows build up on our deck in December and January,


We had to shovel out of our door,


And dig out our car.

YELLOW-BELLIED MARMOTS

These babies, who live in Gothic, CO, are being watched out for by their mother below.



This marmot lived near the top of Crested Butte Mountain at 11,000+ feet.

FOX IN SUMMER

We feed this fox when winter snows are deep. In the summer she helps keep our yard free of Voles and mice. She came to our deck to be sure we saw she was doing her job.

COLORADO ERMINE AND FOX

This is the Ermine who lived by our home. We haven't seen him for awhile and hope that the local foxes did not get him.