snowstorm

Just one month ago, on Aug. 16, a 50-year-old man fell to his death after becoming disoriented while descending the Clear Creek Trail during a summer snowstorm.

None of the trio hatched despite Jackie guarding that clutch for 62 hours through an unrelenting snowstorm.

Police were able to trace it to a man who disappeared in the area in June 1997 after falling into a glacier crack during a snowstorm.

Then, a massive snowstorm dropped 12 feet of snow in the area one winter, cutting the workers and their families off from food and the outside world for weeks, he said.

Sometimes they’d come by in the middle of a snowstorm, plastic bags looped over each arm like ornaments, and you’d feel a little flutter of guilt and gratitude as you tipped in crumpled bills.