Is it Physically Possible for Snow to be THAT Deep?

Ok, I am a bit ashamed to admit this, but I have never been to the mountains in the winter. Nor have I ever been skiing. And, yes, in fact, I was born and raised in Colorado. It must be some kind of a sin or something. So, I finally made it into the mountains during the winter. I went on a Student Council retreat to Fraser, it was Trischool which meant that it was the Student Councils of Arapahoe, Heritage, and Littleton, having a conference type thing about how we could make things better in our schools. I had a blast, but even now, I am beyond exhausted. It didn't help any that I had to make up a killer history test and the other classes I missed on Friday.

Well, anyway, I have never seen so much snow in my life. It was crazy, the snow covered stop signs and everything! Above is one picture I took up at Snow Mountain Ranch, and here is another I took from the bus on the way back. I just wonder how the heck people can get on top of a mountain to go back country skiing. It makes no sense!