In the winter of 1979, my junior year at MTU, the record number of inches of snow fell in Houghton, 356 inches. The following summer I was required to attend summer camp to fulfill requirements for my BS degree in Forestry. While completing an orienteering assignment my partner and I came across piles of snow in the woods behind campus. This was in the middle of July! You know it snowed a significant amount if it still hadn't melted in July!

When I was dating my boyfriend (now husband), I would leave the Detroit area after work on Friday with a girlfriend who also had a boyfriend at Tech and we would power drive up. The snow was falling like cotton balls as it does in the U.P. We would blast Styx and Boston (it WAS the early 80's) and have the heat on high and the windows down to stay awake. One time, there was a Red Alert and we had no idea. The officer that pulled us over,

Three fond memories of snow at Tech. First snowfall snowball fight - I was in Houghton Hall, it was October, 1970, a few began pelting our windows with snowballs, we chased them across 41 to the middle of Wadsworth Hall, then we heard noise..... 1200 snowballers poured out of Wadsworth and chased us back - the fight went on for 5 hours, Dean Meese broke it up - I have no idea who placed the pizza delivery vehicle in the tree by the cemetery....

Being a "Chick" at Tech ALWAYS made you stand out in the '70s, but being an Ungraceful Chick was worse! One day while walking on the snowpath shortcut from my EE class back to DHH, I slipped (wandered?) off the path and fell on my backpack full of books right in front of the Geo-Chem Building. There I was, arms and legs flapping like a turtle on its back, having sunk in the soft snow nearly 2 feet BELOW the path! I floundered around there

A record snow fall of 200" wasset in the mid 60's. The following year it was so cold that Lake Superior froze over completely.

In winter of 1969 we, my girl friend (now my wife), and my roommate and another girl, went out to the south side of the Keweenaw Peninsula out toward the Tobacco river and Gay. We were staying up for Christmas, and needed a tree. So, we got some snowshoes out, and parked the car and walked back into the woods. The snow was very deep, and we found a beautiful tree. The memory was how quiet it was walking in among the firs and pines in very deep

I graduated in 1979 and I remember we had 356 inches of snow that year. Almost an inch a day! We lived in a small trailer in Pilgrim Terrace Trailer court in the first row, which was about 24 ft from the railroad tracks and every morning after a fresh snowfall our alarm clock at about 0700 was the train spraying snow from the tracks onto the back of our trailer! Many days we cross country skied into school along those same tracks.My theory is if

I remember attending a Huskies football game at Hubbel Field, on the old bleachers, with a group of friends and a large blanket. One of us would keep looking down the hill for a snow squall while the rest watched the football game. Every so often there would be a cry of "snow squall!" and we'd duck under the blanket until it passed. I was amazed that, while we couldn't see past the end of our noses - peeking out from under the blanket -

My last year in school, I lived in the New Boston area. I remember wiping snow off my car every morning for at least 45 days in a row.

This is just one of many memories of course. I lived in DHH my freshman year in 1988. I remember waking up most every morning around 5:30 or so as a the trucks were plowing the snow from the courtyard and walkways around the front of DHH. So long as it snowed the night before (which during the winter of 88-89 it almost always did), i was always up in time for my morning classes.

What fun I have reading the newsletter! Talk of the Redridge dam brings to mind the trips I used to take with the Michigan Tech Fourwheelers during the 1976-79 years. Most of the roads we took were undeveloped at that time. We crossed several two-track bridges that would make MDOT shudder. We ran out to Freda and Redridge, climbed the fire tower at Mount Bohemia in the fall, floated a Fiat across beaver ponds, and cooked hot-dogs on a fire at

Going home down the Seney stretch (M-28)to Detroit - snowing like hell with cross winds - 5 students in a big old Plymouth - got bald poly-glass tires on the front and snow tires in back - we hit a slick spot, spun a couple times - but still on the road (not in the swamp - LOL) Went about 10 miles farther - it happened again - so I said we'll put half the tires on the gravel shoulder - that worked pretty well till I got to Pontiac and a tire

In 1979 when the Keweenaw had it's record snowfall, the snow drifts off the roofs of the apartments and the snow banks on the ground left a space of 1-2 feet in between the two. This allowed about 30 minutes of sunlight into the downstairs apartments. The poor folks upstairs, however, only got reflected light from the snowbanks. As I recall, there was never a major blizzard, just 6-10 inches of new snow nearly every morning. Spring made for

I lived at the top of Hubbell Street for most of my time at Tech. January of 1982 was a ridiculously cold month. We had our thermostat cranked the entire month but could barely keep the house at 60 degrees. I believe classes were cancelled for one day due to the extreme conditions. I decided to hike along E. 7th avenue to visit a friend in Wads. I had every inch of my skin covered, and had to wear ski goggles in order to see through the blizzard

Pledging Alpha Gamma Delta in spring 1984, we changed the words to Christmas carols to go out serenading. The big day arrived, May 5th, and we had about 5 inches of snow on the ground! It made the night!

Don't remember the exact year of our "big snow" either 1958 or 1959, but we had so much snow my neighbor and I made a snow garage between 418 and 419 Lovell Rd which was the old married housing.

It was the late 60's (possibly 1969) and I was a Chapel Rat living up at St Al's parish. While we were home for Christmas break, Houghton reportedly got around 100 inches of snow. One of our jobs was clearing the walks around the church. It took the 4 of us an entire week do dig out. Thank god we had a plow for the parking lots. I'll never forget throwing the shovelfuls onto the piles over our heads. One of my roommates (Eric "Sparks"

Spent the night in late May on the back side of a sand dune at the break waters, now part of McLain Park. Two married couples in a double sleeping bag while keeping our Bosch beer cold in a nearby snow bank. At the time we all lived in Daniel Heights married housing..

Winter '69 I lived across from the Presbyterian Church & next door to the service station as you entered downtown Houghton. On this particular day, I had to shovel my way out for an 8.00am class, in after a 10.00am class, out for a 1.00pm class, back in after a 4.00pm class & out again @ 9.00pm to play hockey. By the end of that week, the snow pile @ end of the driveway was higher than I could reach with the shovel extended full-length over my