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Entries in Snow Plows (1)

Saturday
Apr022011

GLACIER PARK – There’s Snow Business...

By Bennett Owen

Photo courtesy of Glaciernps

“They say Montana has only two seasons: winter and the 4th of July.” 

Photo courtesy of Glaciernps

Considering the weather forecast, the road clearing crews in Glacier may be engaged in an exercise in futility. Here’s their cryptic progress report, as of April Fools Day: 

“Crews are currently working in Two Medicine and are one half mile beyond Running Eagle Falls. The weather today was around 32 degrees and it snowed the entire day. Crews are encountering 4-8 foot snowdrifts. The snow at the bridge by the Running Eagle Falls parking lot is 5 feet deep.

Photo courtesy of Glaciernps

Plowing operations on the west side of the Going-to-the-Sun Road begin April 1, 2011.”

Photo courtesy of Glaciernps

Reminds me of this classic VW Bug commercial from the 1970s: 

And the road crews have to get to work somehow:

Punch line translation…although the pictures tell the story, don’t they? “Ever wonder how the man who drives the snow plow, drives TO the snowplow?”

Photo courtesy of Glaciernps