In the northern Rockies, winter snows bring a flurry of hope
by Noah Davis
Dec 19, 2022
3 minutes
My father and I wade through knee-deep snow in December. Evening rushes into the ravine we climb, half the canyon cloaked in shade. The snow that softened in the sun is already freezing in the forest’s shadow.
Here, 500 feet above the Blackfoot River in western Montana, winter has arrived with long, dark nights, single-digit temperatures, and three feet of snow. The elk and deer have moved to south-facing slopes at lower elevations, and the only tracks we see in the silent woods were left by ruffed grouse, pine
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