Winter Is Late

Bare ground still. Our church today prayed for snow. How many places do they do that? We should normally be completely snow covered by November 1st, so this is very, very late.

Here is a shot of my training trail about half a mile from my house, heading north. We are about to pass the holding pens for cattle. They were all shipped off at the end of October to their winter grazing grounds. The dogs paws are still in great shape because we run on grass and dirt, not gravel like we had in Three Forks, Montana before we moved here.

Here is another shot about half a mile further on. Those beautiful mountains are only five miles away. On the far left you can see the gap that is Raynolds Pass, the lowest pass over the Continental Divide anywhere in the Rockies!

You may notice the double fence posts on the right. The larger posts are permanently in place while the smaller posts have the barbed wire strands on them and are held up with a simple loop of wire over the large posts. This is so that the entire fence can be laid on the ground for winter so that snowmobilers can ride through the fence line without hooking their skis under a strand of wire. This photo is not a recent one as those fences were all taken down nearly three weeks ago.