Being once again stuck between yard work and the ever changing weather and basically an afternoon to get some play time in we decided on a quick snowshoe trip into Jewel Basin on the east side of Flathead Valley.
Flathead Valley, Montana
Being optimists we were hoping to drive all the way in and then try to get a ridge run for a quick evening view. Not! As it turned out, with a mid pm start and over two miles of snow laden road we only made it to the parking lot- where we hoped to start from. Maybe in June sometime.
Jewel Basin Outhouse
As it turned out we had a late afternoon lunch in the parking lot and glad that we didn’t have to climb down into the outhouse to drop a load. There was probably a good 6-7 feet of snow blanketing the area.
Hank, not a rescue dog
This is Hank. Hank recently joined us via the Flathead County Animal Shelter. Hank now carries the torch for our ol’ dog we lost this winter. He is some kind of Terrier and Golden Lab. Talk about a mash up. He’s definitely a trooper. We decided that tarrying to long would inevitably find us rescuing him from a slide into the outhouse so we downed some water, apples and Snickers bars and headed in.
Jewel Basin, Montana
There’s still a fair amount of snow on north and east slopes and the weather is staying cool with the occasional precipitation. The forecast is calling for above normal precip and normal temperatures for the next 10 days so we probably won’t have a big meltdown anytime soon.
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Good to see so much snow up high still. Hopefully this system and delayed melt will stave off the epic fire year every one saw coming last month.
Hopefully so. We were at about 5650 ft. elevation. Everything facing south is clearing out pretty quick but the shaded basins and east slopes are holding some snow. I noticed today that some of the smaller streams and rivers between Kalispell and Eureka have slowed up and cleared quite a bit from last week.