Also, a friend was telling me how 3 feet of snow fell this week already in the town of Mt. Shasta but because the earth is warming up because it's spring (according to the calendar now) so most of the 3 feet has melted off in town down to around 5 inches of snow because it's slowly getting warmer (the ground and the air) this time of year.
Another friend recently said that he still has 10 feet of snow at his house nearer McCloud at 4000 feet on
2 1/2 acres of land. He also says in order to see out from his house he has to climb up to the top story to be able to see anything. He also said the snow load has broken his greenhouse which he wasn't very happy about because growing organic food is going to be a problem until he fixes the broken panes of glass in the roof of his greenhouse.
However, a friend in Mt. Shasta says he believes that they will get a big snow blower (7 to 10 feet high) and snow blow Everitt Memorial Highway up to Bunny Flat by next Monday. He said there is presently 25 to 30 feet of snow at Bunny Flat, on Mt. Shasta.
The hardest part of 25 to 30 feet of snow I remember is getting up on top of it to ski and then you have to think about Tree wells so you don't fall in one and die (the three feet or so around a big tree where snow isn't from the surface of the snow to the earth itself. So, theoretically you could fall down a tree well 30 feet to your death and this often happens with snow boarders more often than skiers for some reason. So, if you are skiing or snow boarding stay away from tree tops that you see especially. Tree tips just under the snow are harder to see if at all. So, in this sense skiing or snow boarding on 25 to 30 feet of snow can be dangerous for this reason alone.
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