Here's where it starts...

I've been "onlocation" in Montana and North Dakota since last Thursday evening but on the way out of town and again this afternoon as we returned we took the scenic route to view some of the Silver Valley flooding on the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River. Today we stopped at Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation area at the Montana/Idaho border. These views of just how much snow is still on the mountains in mid-May gives some perspective to how much flooding is still yet to come. And note that the photo of me standing barefoot in the water in front of a bank of snow is actual snow depth, not snow that's been piled high by a snow plow. Also note that I'd been traveling by car for about 18 hours and was holding my pants up out of the really cold water ... hence the high fashion look and odd posing. :)