Winters in Wyoming? (between, pics)

[WyoMama]

Originally Posted by jehu

If you had some or our drivers on those donkey trails, they would be watching you in the rear-view mirror with their mouth open, driving as slow as they can. This is where the term "mouth breathing idiot" came from.

Back to the subject of winters in WY. If there is anyplace that could be said to have the mildest winters in WY, where would that be? Thanks

The town of Cody - Go 5-7 or 8 miles any direction out of town & is like leaving the country entirely. We are so butted up against the mtns that we are protected but ANY direction from town & is night & day. But who REALLY kmows these days w/all the changes??? We are up for our 30 year killer winter next year.... I'm ready........we moved to Wyo from Denver area 29 yr ago during one of those & the whole winter was like that - 1979. But that was in SE Wyo. And MRVphotog, it can get DANG cold in the denver burbs. Had the unfortunate experiencing of spending 10 yr there. HATED it but had to be where my fam was when I was underage.... And a lot of snow - more in Littleton than in Cody....

[MRVphotog]

Originally Posted by WyoMama

The town of Cody - Go 5-7 or 8 miles any direction out of town & is like leaving the country entirely. We are so butted up against the mtns that we are protected but ANY direction from town & is night & day. But who REALLY kmows these days w/all the changes??? We are up for our 30 year killer winter next year.... I'm ready........we moved to Wyo from Denver area 29 yr ago during one of those & the whole winter was like that - 1979. But that was in SE Wyo. And MRVphotog, it can get DANG cold in the denver burbs. Had the unfortunate experiencing of spending 10 yr there. HATED it but had to be where my fam was when I was underage.... And a lot of snow - more in Littleton than in Cody....

Yup Denver can get cold, I was visiting there during the big storm that hit when the Bronco's were playing at Mile High on a Monday night.

I'm just saying that in the winter there were days when it got in the 50's. That's what I experienced when I was there and that's part of the reason friends moved to Denver from Laramie or Jackson. They loved the weather compared to Wyoming. That rarely happened in Laramie or Jackson. Many times there was a foot of snow in Laramie and when we got to Ft Collins there was no snow at all. Same for Boulder, same for Denver. That was what I experienced in my 23 years in Wyo so that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

We used to joke that the snowline stopped right at the CO border.

We always thought Cody was in kind of a banana belt with sometimes getting cold temps and I remember times when Cody got really big winds. The cold spots in Wyoming were usually Jackson, Pinedale and Big Piney.

[Ticky909]

I recently went into wyoming with a 15 year old map of the united states and everything was accurate lol. BTW, is it common practice in wyoming to have horses pull a sled and fork they hay off for the cattle? Or is that mostly mountain ranches?

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by Ticky909

I recently went into wyoming with a 15 year old map of the united states and everything was accurate lol. BTW, is it common practice in wyoming to have horses pull a sled and fork they hay off for the cattle? Or is that mostly mountain ranches?

Yeah, is there another way? This question baffled me. Last time I got stuck, a 4 horse team pulled me out. That's the way we do things.

[Ticky909]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

Yeah, is there another way? This question baffled me. Last time I got stuck, a 4 horse team pulled me out. That's the way we do things.

ah, I just couldn't picture it, on the plains, plus theres not a motor on horses so i didn't think it would be accepted by people from wyoming haha.

[RS-1080]

Originally Posted by jehu

I love anyplace that has a lot of nothing. I don't care much for long, cold, gloomy winters, but there is always a trade off. I also love open country and hate traffic. Where I live here in the cumberland mountains, it is very rural. Our road is a narrow, windy-curvy path with no shoulders and is ten miles until you get to town. You cannot pass anywhere between here and town. It seems that I always get behind an idiot that has to drive slow when going in or coming out. That makes for a lot of frustration. (I wish we could shoot idiot drivers, if for nothing else than to keep them from breeding.) At least out there you can pass, and you probably don't have much traffic anyway. I would gladly trade that for some worse winter weather. The question is, how worse?

LOL, I hear that. We have narrow roads here to. It's all good untill two trucks meet and both are pulling a horse trailer haha. Ever back one up a half mile or so looking for a spot to let the other pass? LOL, thats what really gets folks hot when they drive out to our neck of the woods ( though there is bridges, theres also a point where you must drive through a creek on this paved road as theres never been a bridge there ).Being raised here it never bother me though, untill it snows, then it's hard to stop with nowhere to go.Then whoever is driving uphill is the one who'll hit reverse, kinda quiklike lol.

[ElkHunter]

Wow, those were really good highways, good road ways. And what's the problem? hahahahaha

In Wyoming, we have those roads and we call them Freeways cause it don't cost nothing to get lost on them.

[RS-1080]

Thats what my brother said about Montana. He took a hunting trip several years ago there and said the horse he was riding to trail the Elk/Mule? Deer he shot, fell in a huge ass hole. Said it was a sinkhole that had been marked with brush but the snow was so deep they didn't see it. If not for the guys that were hunting with him, he'd layed in there and died he said. Took him some time before he could come back to TN cause he couldn't see well for days with a swollen head.He told me that's the kinda place I'd like to see as theres lotsa spread over yonder.Been meaning to visit y'alls parts one day, gonna have to do that one day, but it sure won't be winter. I got no lie to tell nobody,..we TN folks don't see that kinda cold lol. I went to Detroit when it felt pretty good here at home, and froze my ass off once I got out up there

[ElkHunter]

Cold here? Not in those pictures. Cold is when you have to pry the dog off the tree.

[Froggie Legs]

I don't remember it being too cold, per se, when I lived in Lander for a year...but since I'm from northern Minnesota cold doesn't compare much. But I do remember that Wyoming has snow in many months out of the year that one would not normally expect snow. For example.. on my daughter's birthday at the end of April we had 56 inches of snow in 24 hours... kind of put a stand-still on everything.. but in a few days it was melted and gone again.

I also remember driving to Jackson Hole at the end of June and having it snow up in the mountains...

but still it was beautiful!