Day 15 : Over halfway

Today was a travel day, we left Grand Targhee this morning, after John removed 10 inches or more of snow off the car. Grand Targhee was pumping this morning, every one was turning up to make the most of the 10 inches of snow they had overnight. At 9.15 when we left, the carpark was full and there was a steady stream of cars coming up the Ski Hill Rd as we drove down. The snow ploughs had been busy and the road was cleared and relatively easy driving according to John. Our biggest problem was that the windscreen washer water had frozen (this happened when we were in Jackson and despite topping up with winter fluid it hadn't thawed out). This meant that we could not clean the windscreen, an issue when trucks passed and threw up road grime. We had two stops on the way to Idaho Falls to tip washer fluid from the bottle we bought in Jackson on to the windscreen so we could clean it and the driver (ed: thats me - John) could see what he was doing. We stopped at Idaho Falls for lunch and there was great elation when we returned to the car, tested the wipers and discovered that the washer fluid had finally thawed out. John made great use of this between Idaho Falls and Salt Lake City.
Today's photo is for Casey and Marnie. Malad is a special place in Edgar Family history, none of us will ever forget our visit to the 'Dude Ranch Cafe'. However this time we resisted the urge to call in to Malad for a repeat visit.
We are safely tucked up in a cute little studio apartment in Salt Lake City, after a visit to Trader Joe's to stock up on Cookie Butter for C & M and to Sports Authority to buy a knee brace so I don't have to keep taping my knee. My skin is starting to object to the daily taping. Fingers crossed the brace does its job, though my knee is much improved so shouldn't be an issue. We look like we might have hit the jackpot tomorrow - lots of fresh snow today and sunshine tomorrow - just a shame we might have to put up with weekend crowds.
Drive was relatively easy - I hate it when I have cars behind me and I think I am slowing them down but the roads were OK and once you start to trust them it is all good. This time we had no snow on the windscreen issues - but road grime made it hard to see so I was very happy when the washer fluid started to work again - it now has industrial strength Arctic washer fluid so we should be ok now. What of the fox you ask? well he didn't have another go at the icepack but I reckon he peed on our window as it was frozen solid shut and wouldn't open - lucky he was not smart enough to pee on the other window so we got that open and retrieved the ice pack with a stock again - he was a worthy adversary and I will miss him.....