Winter Snow in Utah Valley

 

A snowshoe walk along the Shoreline Trail showed a valley covered in snow. It was a warmer than usual day and some of the snow was already beginning to melt. We kept wondering if this was the last of the snow, but storms kept coming and we had more deep snow before the temperatures got warm enough to make it rain instead of snow. 

One of the years with the most snow on record

 Since the beginning of the ski season in Utah, the Alta Ski Resort has received 711 inches of snow or 59.25 feet. This is a snowbank on the Alpine Loop just east of our home. We have huge piles of snow near our house also. 

A lot of snow

 

Snowfall in the Wasatch Mountains has been at record levels for months. The snow removed from this parking lot is more than ten feet deep and it is still snowing. 

Agave and Yucca

Some of my early memories of living in Phoenix, Arizona are of the huge Agave plants we had in our front yard. I have always been fascinated with succulents because they are survivors. These plants grew on their own, they were never watered even when the temperatures were over 115 degrees and they survived.