My son rented a snowcat for a trip into Yellowstone tomorrow so I drove up
to the cabin tonight. It was snowing hard but things were going well until
about three miles from my turnoff where traffic was stopped. Two semi-trucks
were off the road at the same place on both sides and had the whole road
blocked. A third one then wrecked at almost the same spot. I sat there for
almost two hours while the mess was resolved. On the radio the truckers were
bitching about the poor drivers in cars that they were forced to deal with.
I reminded them that we were sitting there because three of their
compatriots had driven off a perfectly straight road and that quieted them
momentarily. This country is a tough baptismal for truckers (and other
drivers) not used to slick and snowy roads. Add a little wind and a lightly
loaded truck, usually going too fast, and they mess up the nice neat berms
the plows make. With a little luck I can make the remaining 20 miles to West
Yellowstone in the morning before the cat leaves. If the road is closed this
is a great place to be snowed in. We have about three to four feet of snow
now and it will be snowing for the next several days. I don't know how much
time there will be for photography tomorrow but I'll take an OM-1N with a
60-300mm Tamron zoom and my little weather proof digital Stylus. It would be
nice to get some sun but that doesn't look too likely. /jmac
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of AG Schnozz
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:53 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: poor Frosty
> In the rain last night, he lost some of his original grandeur
> that he was created with on Christmas Day :-)
Hilarious.
When I drove to work this morning I saw our backyard from the
Interstate. Of the various yards visible from the highway, ours
had these mysterious white "things" scattered around. They were
the huge snowballs the girls rolled up. Almost all the snow
melted leaving them behind. From the highway you had no idea
what they were.
Made me think of some ancient Aztec ruin or something where only
some strange structure remains without the context of their
construction and then environment.
AG
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