Mont. ultra-marathon race cancelled due to snow

ap ^ | July 9, 2011

[george76]

The race director of a 100-mile ultra-marathon foot race through the Flathead National Forest has cancelled the event due to lingering snow ...the snow won't melt in time for the event scheduled for July 29.

postponing the race would pose problems with shortening daylight hours and increased grizzly bear activity.

[USNBandit]

One of the main public vistas in my neck of the woods usually gets plowed by the middle of July. This year, it isn’t happening at all. Lots of snow left in the NW.

[SamAdams76]

Ice ages start like this. When the snow doesn't melt over the summer, it will be all that much harder to melt next summer. What you then have is an expanding snow base that grows each year. Eventually, as has happened before, most of North America will lie under an ice sheet a mile thick. This is the way it has been before and this is the way it shall be again. Global warming nuts be damned. We have "climate change" alright, just not the type the Algore crowd have been prattling on about. The climate has always been changing - ice ages have been coming and going well before humans and their automobiles ever came on the scene.

That said, don't panic. None of us will be alive to see the next ice age in full swing. These cycles take thousands of years. Our descendents will have plenty of time to build igloos.

[knarf]

No no no, Sam ... it's global WARMING.

Say it after me ...Global ...

Global

Warming

war ..... err .... war .... rrr .... ICE AGE!

(You're hopeless, sam)

[Bulwinkle]

longer article w. a pic:

“Only twice in recorded history has the region experienced this amount of snow depth so late in the year, Lamson said.”
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_1bf15846-a9d7-11e0-9c54-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1RyyyOUZQ