The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

Knowing where you are and where you want to end up are two very different things. If it isn’t snow, its drifting snow, and if it isn’t drifting snow its mud, not isolated soft places on a gravel road mind you, but to-the-axel bona fide dirt road mud. In 25 years, the county road bordering a lower pasture has never been impassable … until now.

Successive snows led to the need to keep drifts at bay by pushing snow ever higher along the county’s 30-foot easement setback. The piles, acting as additional snow fencing, continued to grow over several weeks of consecutive storms. As...