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Show 26 Chapter Five. Yellowstone National Park in Winter. In viinter Yellowstone is cold, s t i l l , snovibound and incredibly beautiful. Janey spent her f i r s t Yellowstone viinter in a small apartment at Grant Village, on the southviestern shore of Yellowstone Lake. Two road-maintainance men and t h e i r wives lived in adjoining apartments, but Janey was the only ranger there. "It vias like living in a basement," she says. "The snovi vias eight feet deep, reaching almost to the tops of my windows. The f i r st thing I did each morning vias to go out and measure the snovi depth, climbing up a flight of steps vihich had been carved out of snovi from my back door to a packed path around the apartment. If I stepped off the packed snovi, I ' d sink way down into white powder." Though a l l of Yellowstone's roads are closed to cars and trucks during the viinter months, a fevi hundred snowmobilers arrive at the park each day for viinter recreation. They travel along highways on vihich the snovi has been packed densely by large snovigrooming machines. Stakes are planted along the roads at thirty-foot intervals, because when the vihite drifts blow hard, only the stakes l e t travelers know whether they're s t i l l on the roads. It was Janey's job to patrol the highways and assist visitors vihose snowmobiles might have broken down or become stuck in the drifts. On those frigid viinter days she wore long underwear, viool pants, her ranger uniform with a viool sweater or vest, and a bulky long-zippered snowmobile s u i t . Her face vias protected by a s i l k mask worn beneath a yellow visored helmet. Several pairs of socks under heavy boots kept |