Reeder Custom Guns - Explain snow to me, the mountain powder

I did a presentation last night on a virtual tour of a wastewater treatment plant in Coeur D' Alene, ID. I needed to research the city a little to get a feel for what loading the facility was undertaking. It's a stellar example BTW. State of the art, simply beautiful. They MUST have lots and lots of money! Well over a $100M facility.

The City started as Gen. Sherman's fort, then gold and silver rush, logging, now tourism with the lake and skiing, the university too. About 55K people. But the climate is much more mild than I ever thought at some 4k above sea level. About like Arkansas, just a lot hotter and cooler spikes here than in the more stable mountains. Must be something with the Continental Divide. The data says they only get about 7" of precipitation per year but I know it snows there. One ski resort claims 300" of "powder" pre year. That's 25' of snow!

What am I missing?! I never knew ID was such a nice climate. I can see where hunting on horseback would be a good idea.

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Coeur D' Alene is about a 3 hour drive west of my house. We have similar climates. The area has very low humidity. It's not even a thing on the news. As a result the snow in the higher elevations is small flakes, dry and fluffy. Some days I use a leaf blower to move snow.

In other news: This is our 4th warm winter in a row and yesterday I spotted the first bear of the season. Normally we don't see them until late April. Most guys don't hunt for them until May 1st where they can be spotted eating new grass on the avalanche chutes. When are you coming to visit?

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I found the study very interesting indeed. Things ARE getting better around here. Looking up.

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flew out to Washington state and started looking at every western state as far as moving our shop out west. We looked at probably 10 to 15 cities in 6 states and narrowed it down to Idaho, New Mexico or Arizona. The 2 towns in Idaho we liked had 3 or 4 big gun shops already and not wanting to fight them we passed on Idaho. I had a shop in Santa Fe in the mid 80s and thought about going back there, but a good friend who lives there told me the town was going liberal big time so that knocked it out. When we got to Arizona, Flagstaff had about 5 feet of snow on the ground and that sealed it for us as all 3 of us loved snow.

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HOW GREAT IDAHO IS!

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was -11 here last night and -22 the night before, glorious sunshine right now and temps in the twenty's, shirtsleeve weather. But its a dry cold. You know they filmed Brokeback Mountain in Montana LOL

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less moisture in it that the snow in areas with a lot of humidity. You can literally use a leaf blower to blow the snow off your deck. The 25 feet of snow is very possible. On a good year here we will get 20 to 25 feet of snow. Not all at one time but scattered from October thru May. Just in the last week or so we have received well over 15 inches of snow but with the sun out today most of it will be gone by tonight.

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annually but 15-20' of cold powdery snow? That's what I read. Arkansas snow is 50/50. 8" of snow seems like 4" of rain. It's heavy and wet, a snowman would weigh a couple hundred pounds easy.

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of powder snow to the inch of water, in the ski area's of Utah. Park City averages 450 inches a year, about 600 inches over on the SLC side. and its still a high desert LOL

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Explain snow to me, the mountain powder

Sir Boggs

By Montana standards that's right next door?!

in late '93 I took a few weeks off and Colleen, Kase and I

PLEASE DO NOT TELL ANYONE

do not always be swayed by Bob's prose it

My research says it wasn't filmed in MT.

It wasn't, we just use that to discourage folks

His favorite movie LOL!!

powder snow is just that, a very light powder with

So Flagstaff has about 25" of melted precipitation

WB, we used to figure about 25 to 30 inches