steady powder

there's an area upstate about five and half hours away, that gets an anomly type snow..amazing amounts, and its all do to their extremely unique geographic set-up...in some locations they average 300 inches of snow per season or about 25 feet, that's alot of snow for anywhere in the world... it makes a top ten list of US "snowiest towns" not exactly Mt. Baker amounts but somewhere around 7th on most lists..as a kid growing up 'upstate', it was common to hear snow totals in those towns on the nightly news, (they would easily get 5-7' in one week) but over the years living on the coast this area fell off my radar...but recently I came across an image that reminded me of it, and a quick question to SWS about the area confirmed my memory, SWS shared a story that the farmers build houses with exterior doors on the second stories of their house just so they can walk out in the winter...(his brother lives pretty close to the area who confirmed all of this).... check the pictures...thanks to whoever took these shots:

roof shoveling

this is a fullsize truck snowblower...total monster (the only way to clear the local highway)

there has been some amazing backcountry skiing done in this area lately, unbelievable pow, hoping to post more on this soon...and really hoping to ride a powstick there next season