Hungry Horse News 'Yesterdays' for Feb. 7
Four-year-old Billy Enne admires a snow sculpture of Roy Rogers made for him by his father in West Glacier Feb. 7, 1954. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
Feb. 5, 1954
The community of Polebridge had been isolated for about a month due to five to six feet of snow; families there were traveling by snowshoe. Plowing progress was about a mile a day, but where the road was clear moose were hijacking the right-of-way, “The big animals dislike leaving the cleared road to get out of the way of vehicles. They run ahead with their hackles bristling, occasionally turning to challenge the right of cars. Sometimes, they charge.”
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