Unseasonable snow

Blake Taruscio and Rena Brisentine snowshoed up Crystal Mountain and skied back down through fresh powder on Monday, March 9. Winter sports of that sort are not often possible this time of year around Petersburg, but the past two weeks have seen unusually significant snow fall on Southeast Alaska. On February 28, Petersburg received 15.5 inches of snow fall, an all-time record and more than twenty-five times the average amount of snow that Petersburg has historically received on that day of the year. Then over the next three days, another foot and a half of snow arrived. A few days later, temp...