A Trip to East Portal

A couple of days after Red and I got home, My cousin called up and asked if I wanted to ride randomly through the mountains and re acclimate to the cold. Of course the answer was a resounding yes. I should point out for all you southern friends that these pictures were taken about 20 miles from where my "East from West" post was photographed. And only a couple of days apart.

Even with the first day of spring looming there is four feet of drift on the side of the road.

A great view from the road...

 But a closer look shows that that snow drift is almost as tall as the trees it is next to. Note the buried trees just to the left of the bank-line.

Sinkholes like this were the only indication that we drove all this distance next to a river.

As we got further on, It started to snow even more. A couple of inches on the road in about an hour.

 Sadly just past this the snow got so heavy that we couldn't get any decent pictures of anything. I'll just say that at the end of this road is an epic train tunnel that leads through the Rockies toward Vegas. In the spring I will make the trip again and repost.