Waiting out the Weather in Rock Springs

It’s always the big question, when do we head back to Wyoming? Having lived here for thirty seven years we know all about the spring blizzards and have even been snowed in for a week. Then the storm piled drifts of over eight feet and that much snow would bury us now.

So we always wait till May before we cross the border and the first thing to do is to find out how the travel conditions for the roads and passes, (and not just snow and ice but also landslides which happen here every spring). So we took a circuitous route to Casper and then to Rock Springs, winding our way through the lower passes and missing the high country.

Of course winter threw another winter storm at Wyoming but we were far enough south and so instead of heavy snow we got high winds, lightening and a heavy hail storm with lots of small pea size hail. Taking advantage of this extended stay in Rock Springs allowed us to get Renita’s yearly doctor appointment and lab work done.

Hopefully it will warm up enough that we will be able to cross the Salt Pass and make it to Star Valley on Saturday. The forecast there is for temperatures in the sixties daytime and mid thirties nighttime. That’s a pretty good forecast for early May in the Northern Rockies. Clear skies