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Colorado mountain man carves niche measuring snow
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GOTHIC, Colo. - A blue bird alights on the snowy limb of a spruce tree. Billy Barr rises excitedly from his rocking chair. "There's only been one Steller's all winter," he says of the jay outside his cabin window, where finally he has a view. Finally, after a record pileup of snow in Crested Butte a
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