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me cnains on tne Dig iruca set up a muffled “whomp, whomp, whomp” counterpoint to the “swishswash” of the windshield wipers. Mr. Jenkins creeps along at about 20 miles per hour, the big blade of his plow sending a two-foot wave of snow onto the road’s shoulder. He picks up the radio microphone to report to the residency office in Washington, giving maintenance supervisor Doug Bywaters up-tothe-minute information on road conditions to relay on to residency headquarters in Warrenton.
It’s a slow trip to Panorama. The top of Luray Mountain is the highest point in the joint residency and, with the heights of Chester Gap and Paris Mountain to the north and the driftprone flats of Marshall to the east, the most difficult stretch of road to maintain, according to resident engineer Don Askew.
Those magnificent crews in their snow plow machines They go uppity, up, up They cqme downdiddy, down down
“We’ve been up at Panorama since midnight. We just keep a-goin’ back and forth, back and forth,” Mr. Jenkins says, adding that as soon as we reach the top, we’ll turn around and head back to the bottom of the mountain. “’Bout the only time we stop is to eat or to go in to get fuel.”
The 15-mile trip from the Washington maintenance shed to Skyline Drive’s entrance takes an hour. Loaded with sand and salt for extra weight and better traction, the diesel dump truck pushes the snow plowing blade at about 20 miles per hour, and every 10 minutes or so,
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