How did he do ?
It varies year to year. Last year we had over 9 feet here in the Colorado mountains.
He did great. He’s cleared our 10,000 sq.ft. driveway a half dozen times so far this season.
Colorado is an awesome state. We rode the Sanjuan mountains in 2005, great memory
9' of snow is about 8' more than I care for! Does it melt much between snows or is it around for most of the season?
9’ is a lot. South of us about 30 miles will get around 5’. There was odd year, where we got about 4’. First winter in the place and a broken leg. So we paid to have the place to be plowed, and I hopped around to clear the roof the best I could.
5` is a lot as well,,, and a broken leg , fun winter eh
Best part was, my wife and her coworker had to split and stack all the fire wood that winter. My wife also had to bring it in the house for the first few months. lol.
Sounds like you have a great wife. I do as well but we heated with an outdoor boiler for 35 years and I don't think my wife could have filled it for am entire season .
Much of the snow hangs around until March, but we tend to get heavy snowfalls in March and April and sometimes in May.
Been 60 years but as a child I can remember in central Ohio our ground remained white for months. There really is a climate change
I agree with that! I remember snow drifts as high as the school bus on gravel roads. As kids we would build forts in large snow piles to play in and they would be there most of the winter. Fast forward 50 years and now snow rarely last for more than a few weeks before it's melted. Now I remember riding motorcycles on New Years Day with 60 deg temps. So far, we had 2 snows one was about 2" the other was maybe 3" both melted in a few days.
The snow does sublime (similar to evaporation) in sunny areas. Our driveway has a steep drop off on one side, and I plow so it so it gets pushed off the cliff. Here are a couple of pics of the upper area of our driveway. We haven’t had snow in 12 days and temperatures have been mild with sunny days. There is another tenth of a mile of driveway below what is shown in the second photo.