Final Frisbie Fandango Local resident Bob Frisbie is retiring this summer and for his going away party Mother Nature dealt him one of the worst winters for the Hiway 21 Department in decades. At one time there was ten feet of snow on Banner Summit and there is near 40 inches of water content as of the 20 th of March 2017. One of the movies shows the eight feet still remaining on the outhouse at Banner Summit. There is a huge area of steep rocky chutes in the Mile Post (MP) 98 to 100 areas where when conditions are right, provide fuel for a Hiway department nightmare. It is truly a “dance to the Fandango” to orchestrate various equipment to get the road open again and without getting any workers with serious injuries. In the marked photo of the initial slide below, the various equipment elements of the dance are superimposed on the slide photo to show how Bob directed the dance. The snow cat has...
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