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On his day off from plowing snow Ronny got to go up to his cabin to relax – after dealing with lots of snow.

Plowing out the North Country means 12 hours a day at the controls.

A crew of 3 keeps 299 miles of these gravel roads maintained and open. Open when possible. Often the snow blows back in almost as fast as they plow it.

Sometime’s the Cat 140’s 6 wheel drive needs a little help so the crews stop to chain up. The gesture is a local form of sign language which roughly translates to “you are my brother and I love you but you might be more help if you put down the camera and did something constructive.”

The Road Crew’s weapon of choice is the 6 wheel drive John Deere 140 Motor Grader.

This is what the Rock River crew’s face when it’s time to plow the gravel roads in the North Country. It’s pretty much impossible to know where the road is without a great deal of local knowledge. You can’t just follow the latest set of snowmobile tracks.

This is what the Rock River Division of the Albany County Road and Bridge Department up against. It looks pretty harmless in the summer but the roads are subjected to some rain, a lot of wind, a lot of baking and a lot of heavy vehicles including a lot of cattle trucks. The county road

Last year we poked at the boys of the Albany County Road and Bridge crew for putting up a low sign in cow country. Later in the year I visited a member of the Albany County Road and Bridge at his cabin in the Medicine Bow National Forest. After giving me this look he shared