We have almost 70 miles of road that we open every year. So we start in April basically with a clearing around paradise. You know we plough to paradise year round. The parking areas are predominantly clear snow but all the buildings around paradise require extensive snow removal. So it's steep pitch buildings that you know can get drifts and cornices and so it's pretty slow work. So anyway I'll told you know there's probably another dozen buildings, significant size buildings that require snow removal paradise and then some areas and that takes us another three weeks. After we finish a paradise we started on the valley road and going from the west and we clear up the forest cross and as well we get into some serious avalanche hazards. So when we get to those shoots we stop and we come back to Stevens Canyon and that's really wrong now. So we'll continue from the start of the west just because it's easier for us because our equipment's all staged out of longmire. It makes it pretty easy for us to get up and plough and then the completed east when we finish Stevens Canyon we'll go around on a port 10 and 23 usually open. We'll start on the right river up to Sunrise. We'll finish that and come back and finish the valley road and after that we'll go and get knowledge which is the last one we opened. It's a three month operation. So we'll start on the right river up to Sunrise. We'll start on the right river up to Sunrise. We'll start on the right river up to Sunrise. We'll start on the right river up to Sunrise. My name is Michael Ray and I'm the lead operator here for the Road Crew at Mount Rain International Park. For spring road opening actually it entails cleaning snow from around buildings at Paradise, some of the trail heads and then starting out on the main roads and just cutting the snow down with the dozers to a depth that the roadries can get through it and then blowing the snow off the road. For instance if the snow is 20 or 30 feet deep then the dozers will take off the top 25 feet or whatever the case is. We have to get it down to about 50 inches so the roadries can actually go through it. So the dozers will remove all that snow from the top portion and then the roadries will remove the bottom portion so that we can expose the road. And so once you get it down to a certain depth and the roadries can actually progress pretty fast. And it also does a real clean job and it also protects the road surface. If the dozers were to be on the road surface you'd have damage on the road surface. It's not all forward progress like you can see it's snowing. There's a building that's kind of hard and the other thing is after clearing and before opening we still have to put up signs. There are a lot of signs that we take those down every year because a winter up for a sign will be... The snow creeps we get lateral loads will it will shear it off the breakaway signposts or some of our interpretive ones that are not breakaways they'll get pretty damaged. And so we have a little coat system you might check out. We paint on the center line the location of where the signposts are new after clear out with the expeter. But it's a lot faster than hand digging and then we bolt up the new signposts. Originally when the roads were designed and built they were built to enhance all the visual things in the park. You know the overviews and places where you can look at the canyons and you don't see them out and better and what have you. So they're not necessarily built in a situation or in such a way that it makes driving the easiest possible. They're built more for the view and the experience. And so with that being said it makes it tougher sometimes to plow it just because it's not a nice straight road or whatever. Thank you.