Crazy Winter Weather

This has been the craziest winter I have experienced in the 5 winter's I've lived here. Even though we got early snow Oct 17th and Nov 6th and very small amounts after that we also had lots of rain to melt the snow we had here. Then on Dec 11th this extreme cold and snow started which shut down the plant for 6 days and now we have been back up for 6 days but we've gotten over 73" in that time and the temps stayed below 6 for 8 of those days and then it started warming up Christmas eve, it's been up to 19 for a couple of days and today we already hit 26 which can cause some slides but should help the snow to settle a bit, or it should.
I have to admit that this has been the quietest holiday season as far as sledder's go, we haven't seen not one snowmobiler, not sure if it is because of the bad weather on the West side or the economy or just what it is. Today while I was dragging the trails here at Trinity and out to the road we did see that someone had come up yesterday afternoon because we had gone out around 2:30 and no one had been up by that time. I do know that we had gotten about 3-4' of snow since Pacific Mountain Services last groomed so people are possibly staying on the groomed trails which are usually closer to Fish Lake. The creek is still covered in ice & snow except for where it's cut it's channels and now the water is a couple of feet below the level of the ice bridges. Well if any snowmobiler's happen to come out this far if you would give me a shout just so I can find out what the trail conditions are like coming out here and I will gladly pass along what I find out. These photos are of the creek as of yesterday just to show the difference from the earlier photos when everything was frozen. We hope that everyone has been safe and enjoying the snowy Christmas holidays, spending time with family & friends and spreading Love & Peace to everyone you meet, that is something we can all do no matter what is happening.
We found our Paradise, hope you find your's too. Namaste & Peace