(PHOTOS) There's a Good Few Feet of Snow in The Hills, and People Are Making the Most of It

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Dezmond Remington / Today @ 9:58 a.m. / Nature, People of Humboldt

(PHOTOS) There’s a Good Few Feet of Snow in The Hills, and People Are Making the Most of It

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The forest atop Horse Mountain yesterday afternoon. Photos by Dezmond Remington, with help from camera assistant Shea Daly.

It’s been almost a year since snow last quilted the hills and ridges of the eastern three-quarters of the county. This winter has been a dry winter, void of many of the pleasures that allow people cloistered inside respite from battling the short days and grey skies; leaning into the weather and having a good foot or so of snow instead to enjoy is a tradeoff worth making, one whoever is in charge of the weather hadn’t offered Humboldt until Tuesday.

But someone took the deal, and now, it is beautiful. Your Lost Coast Outpost tackled the enjoyable task of documenting a slice of it for you with aplomb.

The view from Highway 299 three miles east of Blue Lake.

A rig with treads on the summit of Lord Ellis.

People play on Lord Ellis.

A well built snowman on Berry Summit…

…And its ailing twin.

An impromptu jam session in the snow.

There’s a long, vibrant history of skiing here!

Cars lined up on Titlow Hill Road.

Views on the way up to Horse Mountain.

Some young rapscallions sledding.

A few groups spent hours trudging up this hill and then throwing themselves down it.

This guy and his girlfriend tried to ride their quad up a steep hill covered in two feet of snow for about half an hour before giving up. Why didn’t he use his snowmobile? The carburetors needed cleaning, he said, and he didn’t bother doing it because he didn’t think it would snow this year.

The snow was three feet deep above 5,000 feet in elevation, and was as light, soft, and compressible as a loaf of angel food cake. Even on a pair of 170 cm cross-country skis, moving through was extremely difficult.