This image shows snow from the last big snowstorm. Oddly, though the rest of Southwest Colorado (well, all of western Colorado, apparently?) seems to be getting fairly hammered by snow, Disappointment Valley seems to be a bit sheltered from the storm – literally. It *has* snowed … but it seems to be coming from Utah and blowing on to Kansas! The wind has been strong and sharp, and it hasn’t allowed much snow to *fall* let alone settle.
We had a lot of melting of all that snow Corazon is standing in – with temps in the balmy-seeming 50s. Actual creeks (Spring and Disappointment) ran with melting snow-water and the melting made tiny (to not-so-tiny) creeks where arroyos or any other low channels existed.
The landscape IS white again, but maybe only an inch or so has actually settled out of the wind-blown flurries.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
Corazon. What a special pinto he is! And I love the rimrock behind him. We had 6 more inches, TJ! I thought for sure you would be getting this too. But the wind WAS bad and I was surprised the snow did land. We had blizzard conditions!
All the “neighbors” apparently got hammered again with snow. We were lucky to get an inch or so total! The difference is amazing. 🙂 It has been a fabulous February for moisture! (That wind was brutal!)
Wolf Creek pass is still closed due to avalanche danger… Corazon is beautiful and appears very contemplative in this photo.
Yikes. I wouldn’t want to be on Wolf Creek Pass under any but perfect conditions! Corazon was just chillin’ in the snow. Nappin’, grazin’, nappin’. 🙂
When I moved here I drove over Wolf Creek for the first time and thought, “What’s the big deal?” Now I know it’s not the pass itself. In my second Colorado life, I drove over Loveland Pass all the time to get to Arapahoe Basin. 😀
And snow may come agin soon!
Snowing now!