A winter storm early this week left Durango, Bayfield and La Plata County residents digging out.
Colorado Department of Transportation drivers Phillip Bergt, left, and Chris Moreno check their plows Tuesday north of Durango on U.S. Highway 550. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
U.S. Highway 160 near Gem Village on Tuesday was snow and ice packed. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Heavy snow in Bayfield on Tuesday made for a winter wonderland walk. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Bayfield residents clear snow Tuesday as a result of the recent storms. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Some places, such as Hermosa Mobile Home Village, are beginning to run out of places to pile up the snow. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
A Colorado Department of Transportation snowplow clears north Main Avenue on Tuesday in Durango. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Some people had a hard time getting around Tuesday as a result of the recent storm. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Richard Albo, left, and Briant Cuellar clear snow off a Bayfield home on Tuesday. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Heavy snowfall on Tuesday covers trees and fields east of Durango. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Susan Bailey of Bayfield clears a foot of snow off her car Tuesday. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Abigail Katzer, 14, of Bayfield walks her dog, Trouble, on Tuesday in Bayfield. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
U.S. Highway 550 north of Durango on Tuesday was snow and ice packed. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Don Wickman clears sidewalks on Tuesday in Bayfield as heavy snow falls. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
La Plata County residents had their work cutout for them on Tuesday clearing snow form the recent storm. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Don Wickman clears sidewalks on Tuesday in Bayfield as heavy snow falls. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Amy Dunn and Evelyn Fischer, 11, and Chase Fischer, 8, walk through the falling snow on Tuesday in Bayfield to go sledding. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
These horses don’t seem to be to bothered by all the snow on Tuesday west Bayfield. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Jason Davenport, owner of Rocky Top Painting & Construction, plows Hi Lama Lane on Tuesday east of Durango. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Lance Hilmes, a heavy equipment mechanic for the Colorado Department of Transportation, works on a 12-foot-wide loader-mount snowblower Tuesday at the shop on U.S. Highway 160 in Durango. The machine’s 48-inch blades, foreground, were removed during the work. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Travis Willschau, a heavy equipment mechanic with the Colorado Department of Transportation, works on a snowplow Tuesday at the shop on U.S. Highway 160 in west Durango. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Tim Denious, a welder with the Colorado Department of Transportation, works on a snowplow blade Tuesday at the shop on U.S. Highway 160 in west Durango. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Jason Davenport, owner of Rocky Top Painting & Construction, plows Hi Lama Lane on Tuesday east of Durango. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Becky Christensen throws the snow higher and higher Tuesday while shoveling her Bayfield driveway. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
