Swan Rangers celebrated cold snow before a forecast big thaw during their outings this past week!

Scroll down to see the rest of their photos and details!

In our lead photo, Chuck Mayberry caught the sun rising behind trees on a a blue-sky morning!

Chris Gotschalk climbed up into the clouds to ski fine powder snow and . . .

. . . found beautiful ice at this waterfall!

Keith Hammer found abundant snow in the Swan Range and . . .

. . . was glad Pam was along to help break trail!

Dee Blank found some cattails a bit bent by this winter's snow and . . .

. . . Ruth Quist saw a big snow snake crawling along a fence rail!

Pat Jaquith shares weather being forecast by smoke signals sent up from the Swan Range!

Pam Willison shows us some signs of warmer weather, like snow fallen out of Cottonwood trees and . . .

. . . a six-legged snow spider out and about!

In our parting shots, Pam Willison flees . . .

. . . to Costa Rica to . . .

. . . avoid a sloppy thaw in Montana!

If you have interesting photos of your outings, send them along with a description to keith@swanview.org and we'll try to work them into these weekly reports!