Jayson Jacoby / Baker City Herald Luke Albert, Baker County assistant watermaster, plunges a hollow aluminum pole into the snow near Anthony Lakes on Wednesday afternoon, with Gunsight Mountain looming above. This meadow has been a snow survey site since 1936.
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S. John Collins / Baker City Herald file photo There wasn’t much snow to be seen, even in the Elkhorn Mountains, during the summer of 2018. This photograph, from 2013, was made near Alder Creek southeast of Baker City.
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Kathy Orr/Baker City Herald Recent storms brought snow to Baker Valley and thickened the snowpack in the Elkhorn Mountains.
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S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Gerald Burchard, right, Draven Pearce, left, Jesse Brown and others swap street tires for snow tires Thursday when studded tires became legal for Oregon highways.
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Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald May weather that’s been much warmer than usual (see boxed story below, at right) has melted much of the deep snow cornices that form each winter along the ridge just north of Marble Creek Pass about 12 miles west of Baker City.
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S. John Collins / Baker City Herald file photo Two of Baker City’s backhoes clear snow from areas along a city street last winter.
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S. John Collins / Baker City Herald file photo Two of Baker City’s backhoes clear snow from areas along a city street last winter.
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S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Snow coated the higher peaks and ridges of the Elkhorn Mountains west of Baker City on Tuesday afternoon. More snow is forecast today.
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S. John Collins/Baker City Herald Baker City has spent an estimated $300,000 this winter to plow and remove snow. The city budgeted $92,000.
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S. John Collins/Baker City Herald Baker City has spent an estimated $300,000 this winter to plow and remove snow. The city budgeted $92,000.
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S. John Collins/Baker City Herald Baker City has spent an estimated $300,000 this winter to plow and remove snow. The city budgeted $92,000.
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Joshua Dillen / Baker City Herald Deep snow mantles the Sumpter Valley Railroad Depot at McEwen in Sumpter Valley.
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Joshua Dillen / Baker City Herald Deep snow mantles the Sumpter Valley Railroad Depot at McEwen in Sumpter Valley.
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S. John Collins/Baker City Herald The building at 1916 Main St. collapsed due to a heavy snow load this morning.
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S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Members of the Teens For Change committee began preparations Tuesday for the New Year's Eve party for Baker High School students. K-Lee Hickman, left, and Haley Searles cleared snow from the porch area that was the former Dick Haynes' Trading Post, one block west of 10th Street on Church Street. Carol Delsman of Baker City donated use of the warehouse for the party.
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S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Tom Fisk, the city's operations supervisor, handles a backhoe Tuesday morning to follow a snow grader to help keep intersections and postal areas clear.
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S. John Collins / Baker City Herald The latest storm that began Monday night put snow graders and backhoes back on city streets. Plowing operations unavoidably create snow berms beside parked vehicles.
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S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Baker City Public Works Department employees clear streets of the thick layer of snow that piled up Monday night and Tuesday morning. Backhoe operators came along behind the grader to clear driveways and mail box areas.
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