Now it's Spring and the Melt Has Begun

Be careful what you wish for.

Following years of drought and rapidly declining water levels we finally got a real winter. Now it’s spring and the melt has begun. It looks like we’ll have plenty of water in our bay at Fort Peck Lake once again.

Unfortunately, however, I can’t get there.

Lat week the north fork of Rock Creek washed out a culvert on the only road leading to our cabin, taking a sizable chunk of road with it.

Until the road is fixed or the ice melts there’s no way in or out. While the lake is still frozen, runoff and rising water make getting onto the ice difficult so traveling tha...