A Wyoming Spring

Monique had her friend Andy from AJ (who is stationed at an AFB in Rapid City, SD) come over for the weekend. He came to go skiing with the family. The day he left a storm system let loose on his base and they received several feet of snow over the weekend. He left just in time so that he could be here when it started snowing.

It snowed all of Saturday. The kids went to the mall and sled and snowboarded on this fabulous hill right by the mall for FREE. The official ski slope closing is on April 5th. So, the kids really wanted to go skiing one more time. Early this morning we checked road conditions and the road up the mountain was closed. BUMMER! So Tony and Mannie went to check it out. It appeared that once a plow would go through the road would be opened. They went back home and told the sleeping army to stir up and get ready.

Once the kids were finally in line for the trek up the mountain it took only 30 or so minutes until the plow showed up. The plow was a welcomed sight by all those waiting in line to get up the mountain to enjoy the last day of skiing 15 minutes from home. Winter is in now way over since there is another storm forecasted to come through next week.. oh joy! The skiing conditions were absolutely amazing. POWDER, POWDER and more POWDER. In some spots the powder went up to Mannie's knees. Monique said that a snowboarder fell and completely disappeared in the powder!

Locals were heard saying that this was the best snow they have seen on this mountain in years and that it rivaled Steamboat Springs and other fancy Colorado resorts but with less traffic. We are excited that Spring may soon arrive here so we can launch our raft and enjoy the water.

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