Trail Ridge Road is the highest continuous highway in the United States traveling through Rocky Mountain National Park along the "Old Ute Trail". Each year the National Park tries to have the road open by Memorial Day. SUV driving adjacent to the drifts on both sides of the highway near the top. In this picture cars are driving between the drifts created when road crews cleaned off the highway. This drift is on the top near the visitors center in Rocky Mountain National Park. It was 30 degrees colder at the summit than it was in Estes Park. The temperature went from 77 to 47 degrees. One of the road crew workers said that the snowpack was already 30% smaller yesterday than it had been on Saturday due to melting. Have a great week - Gerald
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