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| Alexis Park Inn & Suites |
| 1165 S. Riverside Drive |
| Iowa City, Iowa 52246 |
| Toll Free: 888-9ALEXIS |
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(888-925-3947) |
| Local: 319 337-8665 |
| Fax: 319 351-4102 |
| Email:AlexisParkInn@mchsi.com |
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"Mount Baldy" The saga of the biggest pile of snow anyone has seen continues... Updated 5/11/08:
Updated 5/2/08:
Updated 4/27/08: Little more than a block of mud-covered ice, Mt. Baldy is still hanging in there. The trees are starting to leaf out now...
Updated 4/18/08: Even after two 70-degree days, and an all-day rain, the glacier known as "Mt. Baldy" persists! It's solid ice underneath a layer of dirt.
Updated 3/31/08: Here are a couple of pix taken during a driving rainstorm. As you can see, Mt. Baldy now looks like a giant pile of dirt, but that's just the sand from all the snow they trucked from downtown. Dig down an inch, and it's still solid ice. When will it finally melt? Nobody knows!
Updated 2/29/08: Mt. Baldy continues to grow at an unprecedented rate! What was once a "peak" is now a "range", and -- with no end in sight for the snowstorms of this crazy winter -- who knows how high it might grow! Here's the latest picture:
February 2008: The City of Iowa City hauls all the snow from downtown out to a field across from the hotel. For the first couple of years we complained about the noise of the dump trucks running at all hours, until they changed their "piling strategy" so that they pile the snow closest to the road FIRST, forming a natural sound barrier between us and them. Once the barrier is formed the trucks can run all they want, and we can't hear them -- an elegant solution. This year, with record snowfall (over 40 inches by February 8th -- 20 inches in just 50 hours!) and bitterly cold temperatures reducing any melt-down, their only worry was whether or not Mt. Baldy would present a "hazard to navigation" for the nearby airport runways as it reached unprecedented heights... Here are some pictures of kids climbing "Mt. Baldy" (as its been coined) on a brilliantly clear February day:
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