On Sunday Feb. 6 I (Bob Howell) spent from ~8:30 - 11:00 at Snowy Range Ski Area 
working with Mike Hotchkiss on ski and toboggan training of the new nordic 
patrollers.  At 11 AM I drove to Green Rock Picnic Area and was preparing to 
ski the Potholes trail when I heard radio traffic that changed those plans.

While at Green Rock I heard Neil (of the Albany County Sheriff's Office) 
calling the USFS Centennial Visitors Information Center inquiring if any 
MBNSP patrollers were in the area as an accident had been reported in the 
Brooklyn Lake area.  I couldn't reach a USFS radio repeater from the Green 
Rock location (and hadn't yet called in to CVIS to report my presence that 
day) but made contact with one of two Centennial VFD vehicles (their ambulance 
and a vehicle with a snow machines and rescue sled) heading up highway 130 
past Green Rock, and then drove up to the road closure at the Snowy Range 
Lodge myself.  I arrived just as CVFD personnel were leaving with snow 
machines and the rescue sled.  From that location I could make radio contact 
with the Centennial Visitors Information Center and also with Neil, and 
waited till he arrived roughly 15 minutes later on a snow machine he had 
just retrieved from the ski area.

I went with Neil on his snow machine.  After sorting out some confusion 
regarding the accident location we met the CVFD and other personnel 
already on scene (on the Towner Lake Road) just as they were beginning 
to transport the patient.  He was already on a backboard and in the 
rescue sled.  We accompanied them back to where the patient was 
transferred to a waiting Laramie ambulance.

At approximately 1PM I returned to Green Rock Picnic Area and given 
the time decided to just ski the beginning part of the Libby Creek 
Loop trail to check snow conditions.  The temperature was 30F, the 
wind was calm, and it was mostly sunny.  The snow stake at the start 
of the trail showed 37 inches.  Within the trees snow conditions were 
good with a few inches of few-day-old powder.  In the open areas the 
snow was starting to get somewhat icy.  I skied the Libby Creek Loop 
Trail till it climbed out of the Barber Lake Trail drainage and reached 
the overlook above the Libby Creek Valley.  Snow conditions there were 
still reasonably good, but bare rocks were showing through in many 
places near the overlook.  In this region the trail itself still 
had good snow cover.  I didn't get far enough to check snow conditions 
after the trail makes the hairpin turn and heads down towards Libby 
Creek, but I suspect the snow in those open areas may be getting thin, 
with rocks at or near the surface.

Car counts:  The counts for the first two locations 
were at 8:30 AM, and the others were at 11 AM.

                            with    without
                          trailers  trailers
 Corner Mountain Lot          0         0
 Little Laramie Lot           0         2
 Below Cattleguard           12         1
 Cattleguard to Turnaround   26         3
 Green Rock Picnic Gnd. Lot   0         8
 P. G. to Snowy Range Lodge  16         8

 Total                       54        22