Edwin finds the desk clerk to be courteous and understanding in the extreme, offering, at a single glance at the trio, an "emergency weather discount" for the rooms, which turns out to be quite a modest price.  As the hotel clerk, Mr. Dennis Fox, checks you in, he offers you some advice and gives you weather updates.  "You ought to visit the Valley View if you're hungry.  It normally closes at eleven, but the storm has given us a little bit of a boom in late check-ins, so we're keeping it open to accommodate our guests.<br/><br/>"Now the bad news is that I just heard over the CB that we're completely snowed in here in Miner's Folly.  The phone lines are down, and the pass won't be cleared for four days.  It's the county plows, you see," explains the helpful Mr. Fox.  "We're right on the coutny line, and they work their way out from the middle, so the road out of here is the last one to be plowed."<br/><br/>You are assigned rooms 209, 210, and 211, each of them a room with two double beds on the second floor.  209 and 211 are adjoining, 210 is across the hall and overlooks the entryway and the town, while 209 and 211 overlook the mountains and cliff on which the Clearwater is built.