Next morning Steve awoke to the sound of high winds. Only thing was they sounded very far away. He opened the inside window shutters and let the light into the cabin. He could see out but not very far. Something seemed strange though. He stepped through the door and saw close to a foot and a half of snow, give or take. It had stopped snowing; the wind was blowing snow off the upper ledges. It was swirling high in the air and around some in the valley making his ability to see very difficult.
It took him a minute to realize that even though it was cold there was little to no wind hitting him. You could hear it screaming over top of the valley and through the mountains, but for the most part, the valley was sheltered which made it a lot more bearable.
After looking things over for a few mi
