Rex Trulove
This is the south entrance to the park today. The snowbanks are ‘only’ about 8 feet high. This is also the only entrance that is open. The north entrance is closed due to snow. The Rim Drive and the Rim Village that overlook the lake are also closed due to snow and drifting snow.
The forecast is for more of the same; heavy snowfall with winds gusting up to 30 miles per hour. This is very much like it looked last year and, in fact, how it looked when I was growing up there over 50 years ago. There has been no appreciable change in the climate at Crater Lake since I was a boy.
Montana isn’t the only place that is getting slammed by snow. I did have to shovel out a three-foot berm in order to get out of the driveway this morning, but I’m quite thankful that it was only three feet. As a boy, shoveling through 8 feet of snow like what is shown in this picture wasn’t a big thing. It sure would be now, in my advancing state of decomposition…er, I mean age.
