Drew wrote: "What these deep snows equate to is serious avalanche hazard - how much of that do you get in the Dakotas, Willie? "

We don't fool around with small snow slide. We have the continental Glaciers... might have to wait a few mellinia for them to come back but are still picking rocks from the fields from their last foray through here.

We are lucky & studded snow tires are OK in winter.