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The high mark: mountains, grizzlies, and the smell of exhaust in the morning.(U.S. Journal)(Cooke City, Montana)

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| March 25, 2002 | Singer, Mark | COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

For residents of Cooke City, Montana, where winter customarily announces itself before Halloween and sticks around well into May, occasionally into June, the official arrival of spring is an incidental fact. Not counting dogs and cats, Cooke City has a winter population of a hundred self-selected souls -- all of whom, it seems, are wedded to the proposition that the climate is ideal. Cooke City (elevation: 7,600 feet) sits just north of the Wyoming state line, in a narrow valley of the Absaroka Range. Although precipitation has been a bit below normal this season, at Daisy Pass, five miles away and two thousand feet higher, four hundred inches of snow have fallen. As a ...

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