[ChuckMcM]

Hmm, October through May, snow blower included? On the plus side its probably great for focus, on the down side its going to be a haul to resupply mid-winter. Although with another outbuilding for supplies and pulling gigabit fiber from the Internet all the way out to the house, you could treat it like the Arctic stations and just work solid for 8 months.

[SpacemanSpiff]

The Paradise Valley generally receives less snow than other places in Montana. My wife and I drive a Prius year round and typically a grocery store trip is ~40 minutes round trip. We're able to take the Prius on 95% of our winter drives. This last winter was quite warm, we were flying kites outside over Thanksgiving with our extended family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Valley_%28Montana%29

Some photos of the harsh winter conditions experienced here :)

http://imgur.com/OwmFVok http://imgur.com/CcnJjFV http://imgur.com/I3pfkxO

[wheaties]

If you fly, that's just a hop, skip, jump to another town.

[cpncrunch]

Not sure what you mean "haul". It's right next to Hwy 89 and only 10 miles from Livingston.

[ChuckMcM]

Well they mentioned 40 minutes from Bozeman (for me that is a 'haul' just to get groceries.) but if it is that close to Livingston there used to be an awesome steak house in town.