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Cody Brown with the Idaho Snow Survey weighs a snow measurement tube. Weighing the snow helps determine how much water is frozen within the snowpack.
Cody Brown with the Idaho Snow Survey weighs a snow measurement tube. Weighing the snow helps determine how much water is frozen within the snowpack.
SHOSHONE COUNTY, Idaho — There’s a mystery unfolding in Humboldt Gulch.
Located several miles up a winding canyon road from the town of Wallace, Humboldt Gulch is where one of 30 SNOTEL weather stations keep track of the snowpack in North Idaho. Dozens more are spread across Montana and Eastern Washington with hundreds more in other parts of the West.
SNOTEL (SNOw TELemetry) station at Humboldt Gulch, Idaho. Snow is weighed behind the tower in the background and recorded in the shed in …