Two men shovel snow from the entrance to the Boreas post office and telegraph station, on top of Boreas Pass on the route to Breckenridge, Colorado. Handwritten on the reverse: "scene of the snow blockade showing the Boreas Pass Post Office and telegraph station 11500 feet above sea level 1899" and in the lower corner: "G.W".

Log cabins and structures are buried under deep snow, somewhere near Breckenridge, Colorado. Title quoted from handwritten text on the reverse: "Telegraph station at Boreas Pass" and "No. - Never this many cabins at Boreas." Stamped twice: "O. Westerman, Photographer, Breckenridge, - Colorado."

Log cabins and structures are buried under deep snow, somewhere near Breckenridge, Colorado.

A man stands near a cabin snowed in at Boreas Pass. Photographer's stamp: "O. Westerman Photographer Breckenridge, Colorado" and handwritten "cabin in mid winter snowed in at Boreas Pass".