THE ROCKY SUMMER OF '85

On July 26 a call was received from Larry Shick of KING-5 news. Larry said that he had received several phone calls in one day regarding the quantity of rock showing on the mountain. One caller lived in the area for 30 years, the other for 60 years, so it must have been obvious.

Before responding to Larry, I talked with Bundy Phillips who gave me the following information. It may be of interest to you as well.

Total snowfall at Paradise for the snow year 1984-85: 711 inches.

Monthly breakdown:

Bundy speculates that much less snow than normal fell above the 8,000 to 9,000 ft. elevations. This may have added to the quantity of rock showing for much of the summer of 1985.

Bill Dengler

Paradise a place so nice
in this land so strange

A beauty so rare, that once you dare
by its beauty you are bound.

I chanced by there and without dispair
my wanderings they did change

Yes, there I'll stay from day to day
content in what I've found.

For no better life could suffice
than the lovely land of Paradise.

Christopher R. C. Swann