For months, the flakes fell — more than 74 inches in all — and crews, as obliged, pushed and plowed the heaps of snow into corners of parking lots and into backsides of buildings.
  Over time, the aesthetics of Midland, our relatively flat town, began to change. Instead of the sun exposing plain cement lots, the early-morning and late-afternoon light shone down on giant snow banks, which, if looked at from the right angle and with a healthy amount of imagination, resembled those snow-capped peaks and majestic mountain ranges to our west.

  And as spring temperatures and longer days melt away the last of these massive mounds — some climbing more than 15 feet high — we take a look back at some of Midland’s most impressive mountains.