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light? whats that? mights well live in Siberia :rolleyes:
Keep your headlamp handy with extra batteries for the next nine months.:D
My "led" head lamp is busy at the moment illuminating a pumpkin at the head of my driveway. I just turned it on and placed it in a ziplock pint bag inside the pumpkin. I figure that with a pair of lithium batteries it should stay lit through Halloween.
Well I grew more pumpkins than I have grandkids, so I had to do something with the surplus.
Weary
Hope you got red leds.
Red eyed Jack!
Heads up. The brisk weather has the deer out and about. Been awhile since I have seen any.
Heads up. The brisk weather has the deer out and about. Been awhile since I have seen any.
The deer herd suffered badly in last winter and spring snows. For the first time in 15 years I didn't get a doe permit. I haven't been out, but I'll try to do so over the next few days.
I always like to put a small deer in the freezer. It's part of a long tradition. But a special effort to get a smelly buck big enough to see his rack is not particularly exciting.
But otherwise, times are great. Temperatures along midcoast Maine dropped to 18 F. last night. Not much different seems likely tonight. A winter storm is predicted for Monday.
I've been cleaning up and getting ready for winter snows, No, I'm not ready yet. But hope remains. I've still got three storm windows to cork and paint.
All this week and a bit into last week, a fringe of ice began to appear along the high tide mark on the marsh and bay to the south. Now the fringe comes and goes, depending on wind and temperature. In a few weeks it will be a permament transformation until spring, gaining thickness with each turn of the freezing tides. I look forward to the change.
The astronomically high tides arrived a week ago, flooding my rutabaga bed. No great loss. The turnips never got thinned so most are badly stunted. Every year I dream of becoming a responsible gardener. I've finally decided it is unlikely to happen.
We leave in a week for Thanksgiving at the Cabin in Maine. My chore is to bring the squash. We had a bumper crop. But a lot decayed early. Mostly, I think, because the squash bed is in a wet hollow of my garden, and matured in a globally warmed puddle.
We've frozen the sections of squash without decay, so we'll have enough to last until the first veggies of spring. The Cabin will deplete most of the last of the "fresh" stuff. At least I hope so. We are in the time of year when we only eat partially decayed vegetables. We have to. We've nurtured the stuff since spring. It's a shame to let it all go to waste!
Weary
walkin' wally
11-21-2008, 07:05
Nice post Weary. T'is the season.
I went up to Monson and Greenville yesterday. The weather was quite cold and windy. A high temp of 21 degrees. Ice has covered the protected areas in the bogs and it will be safe to walk on in another couple of days of this cold weather. There was spitting snow all day and a dusting of snow and sleet on the ground. Frost and ice slivers are pushing up out of the soil.
There is a new configuration of the AT parking area on Rt 15 north of Monson. There is now a row of huge rocks separating the inner and outer areas of the lot. It makes backing in and out necessary and possibly creates a bottleneck for the hikers and camp owners in the area.
It was put there as part of a beautification of the area and to help people find the AT according to the county economic development council. It makes it easier to back into a road sign, which I did. One inconsiderate motorist could block the entire inner section.
walkin' wally;727869]
I went up to Monson and Greenville yesterday. The weather was quite cold and windy. A high temp of 21 degrees. Ice has covered the protected areas in the bogs and it will be safe to walk on in another couple of days of this cold weather. There was spitting snow all day and a dusting of snow and sleet on the ground. Frost and ice slivers are pushing up out of the soil.
I was out on the AT about the same time in a western area and saw alot of this frost/ice pushing up through, took a picture of the pretty cool stuff. (http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p200/woodsy2007/100_5788.jpg) Found mostly in compacted wet soil such as the trail.
Anyone know the technical term for this hairy type frost/ice?
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p200/woodsy2007/100_5788.jpg%5B/IMG%5D
I vote for needle ice.
Or piprake.
http://flickr.com/photos/stubbyfingers/2919220937/
If you google hoar ice you can get a fun list of snow and ice terms.
How's them windburned cheeks?
How's them windburned cheeks?not burned, balaclava saved the day, i mean cheeks. It was 10 deg. about midday with some wind howling overhead but not too bad. I don't want to get into windchill here.
A pic looking at Saddleback Range from nov.18
G]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p200/woodsy2007/100_5780.jpg
You know your favorite subject is wind chill. I notice you have some shrubbery to hide behind.
I saw ice that would hold a fat beaver. How's ice your way?
I broke out the big gloves this week.
It wasn't 10*, but I am a sissy.
Good pic, like the partial sunlight.
Anyone know the technical term for this hairy type frost/ice?
I vote for needle ice.
Bingo, thank you
Needle Ice (http://www.sierrapotomac.org/W_Needham/NeedleIce_070123.htm), nice explanation here of how it all works.
BTW, ponds would be freezing over better if the wind hadn't been blowing for days on end.
Rock hopping stream crossings are interesting right now. Most rocks near water line are glazed over slippery, you know you don't want to get your feet wet now. A stout staff or a pair of sticks are very helpful.
Cold with some snow up in The County this weekend. The Presque Isle stream has a good coat of ice on it tonight.
It's comin'.
Thermometer is pegged at zero and wind is howling, i'm going hiking....:rolleyes:
Even better on top of the rock pile (http://www.mountwashington.org/weather/conditions.php) :cool:
can you say wind chill!!??:eek:
TJ aka Teej
12-08-2008, 07:46
top of the rock pile (http://www.mountwashington.org/weather/conditions.php) :cool:
can you say wind chill!!??:eek:
Looks a lil'bit chilly on this rockpile too:
http://www.katahdincam.com/
Thermometer is pegged at zero and wind is howling, i'm going hiking....:rolleyes:
Even better on top of the rock pile (http://www.mountwashington.org/weather/conditions.php) :cool:
can you say wind chill!!??:eek:
You know you didn't want to say that. Get the big gloves out. Woodstove making noise today? Power is back on, life is good.
Looks a lil'bit chilly on this rockpile too:
http://www.katahdincam.com/
Very pretty. From here.
Even my really big gloves aren't enough for that!
walkin' wally
12-08-2008, 08:09
You know you didn't want to say that. Get the big gloves out. Woodstove making noise today? Power is back on, life is good.
Very pretty. From here.
Even my really big gloves aren't enough for that!
So how are the Blackflies out your way?
Looks a lil'bit chilly on this rockpile too:
http://www.katahdincam.com/
Yeah but the visibility would be :cool::D 100 miles!
mudhead;736296] Woodstove making noise today? Power is back on, life is good.
you lost power? wind?
Woodstove is cranking, big pot of chili is brewing...
life, the way it should be :p
Tad breezy around here. Rough sleeping last night. Has calmed down alot.
Now it is just "breathe thru your nose" out. Good clean air, but goodness.
Was just on the edge of what whacked NB and far eastern ME.
We still haven't turned up our thermostats this year. So far the oil boiler only heats hot water.
But we fire the kitchen range with wood on chilly mornings and evenings. We had light snow here yesterday on midcoast Maine for the first time since last April. The snow persisted for eight hours or so, but only accumulated about a couple of inches. We had a wood fire going most of the day, though we spent most of the time outside, removing stuff I've left laying around through the summer and fall.
I also removed the remains of an elm tree stump at the foot of my driveway, that has complicated snowplowing since it died of Dutch Elm Disease a decade ago, as well as a batch of invasive multi-flora roses -- pretty in the spring, but a nuisance the rest of the year.
Today is bright and sunny. Outside temperature 16 degrees F. Inside 72 without a fire. I designed my house 35 years ago with most of the windows on the south. Whenever the sun is out, the house stays warm. Passive solar is both free and it works.
All that is required is a site with access to the sun and wise design. We have the normal complement of windows. But only one on the north -- so the kids could see the school bus coming. That no longer is needed. But the window remains. Five face east to catch the early rays of the sun. Three face west. The rest, south.
Weary
-20 here in Aroostook County tonight. Big storm coming tomorrow. Winter's here.
Caught my attention for sure. Hope the deer are in the yards.
We still haven't turned up our thermostats this year.
Weary
Thermostats ? What are those, have i been missing something ?
-10* F this morn outside; +69* F inside; and no thermostats?
Annual heating costs in this modest maine shack is about 20(twenty) US dollars,
of course you got to get off your lazy arse, fetch and work up the wood http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/chores017.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org)
Don't need no thermostats or stinkin heating oil :)
Yes , some good snowy winter hiking in the forecast...
boarstone
12-21-2008, 08:48
14* BELOW zero this a.m., birds raiding the feeders getting ready for the storm coming. Bluejays so puffed up they look like patridges.... Coyote's visiting my compost pile behind my barn.(I'm intown)...Santa's helper thought I was in need of an early Christmas present and got me an aluminum snow shovel....hahaha...it waits it's debut by the barn door...
Thermostats ? What are those, have i been missing something ?
-10* F this morn outside; +69* F inside; and no thermostats?
Annual heating costs in this modest maine shack is about 20(twenty) US dollars,
of course you got to get off your lazy arse, fetch and work up the wood http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/chores017.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org)
Don't need no thermostats or stinkin heating oil :)
Yes , some good snowy winter hiking in the forecast...
Most of my heat so far this season has been the edgings left at a local, one man saw mill which sawed the planks our town land trust bought to bridge some boggy spots on one of our trails. I burn the edgings in a 90 year old (estimated) Charm Crawford kitchen range. I bought a truck load of the edgings a couple of winters ago for $20.
So far I've been able to augment the edgings by sawing up trees cut by beavers, or which blow down along the portion of my two acres that fronts on a salt marsh. State law forbids harvesting of live wood along the shore. So most years I burn oil starting around Christmas
Without a woodlot, most wood heat these days is as expensive as oil. I gave one of my woodlots to our land trust to help protect a beautiful wild pond. I sold the second to pay off the mortgage on a house I built for one of my kids 10 years ago.
The land trust gift came about when the owner of a neighboring wood lot that fronted on the pond wanted me to join him in a joint harvesting operation. I suggested he should give his lot to the land trust.
"I will if you will," he replied.
The land trust a few years later bought frontage on another piece of the pond. So we now own our own miniature Walden -- a beautiful 10 acre totally undeveloped deep water pond, a rarity in these developed parts of Maine.
There is still an out holding. But our town land trust owns all the easy access. For the remaining private owner to build anything, she would have to bridge 300 feet of beaver flowage, and climb a near vertical hill.
Yes. You are right, Woodsy. Winter is coming. I have six inches of snow on the ground and a big storm is supposed to start any minute now.
Weary
work up the wood
Some claim it warms you twice, but it seems more like 4-5 times before it turns to ash.
boarstone
12-22-2008, 08:48
Hope everyone in this neck of the woods are dug out....20" of snow here...Yahoo! X-C ski here I come!
Some claim it warms you twice, but it seems more like 4-5 times before it turns to ash.
This is true, best i can do with some of it is 3 times.
some snow totals (http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/037436.html), Bigelows/Stratton/Eustis area got walloped with more than 3 feet....:D
Put a truth stick in a couple spots in the open this AM. 17", 18". More drifting than was really necessary.
Not 41" like Eustis, but mine is heavier. Mine expands as you shovel it also.
Of all things, I hear nattering about a dose of rain on the coast Wed.
Time to eyeball the roof.
What was it I didn't like about FL?
boarstone
01-16-2009, 07:50
If anyone is interested....33.5 below here at 6 a.m. Calm wind...too cold even for the wind to move!
nitewalker
01-16-2009, 08:25
im not in maine but here in northeast connecticut the mercury fell to -11 degrees earlier..:eek:
im not in maine but here in northeast connecticut the mercury fell to -11 degrees earlier..:eek:
As did my thermometer here on midcoast Maine (at the mouth of the Kennebec.)
It's now climbed to almost minus 7. But it's a bright sunny day and indoors it has climbed to 67 F. and will hit 70 in a half hour or so with the sun reflecting off the snow and through our south-facing windows.
Weary
But it's a bright sunny day
Weary
-16*F in rural Bar Harbor. UMO students had a fun walk to class today. That island really is the cold pit of the state.
Hope someone from the county posts an update.
Odd the ozone was up this AM. You'd think it would be zilch.
Jan LiteShoe
01-16-2009, 12:28
If anyone is interested....33.5 below here at 6 a.m. Calm wind...too cold even for the wind to move!
Holy moly! My nose hairs froze together reading this!
Wishing you
:sun
I used to live in Wisconsin. No more.
Sunny NC for me, baby! :banana
Jan LiteShoe
01-16-2009, 12:30
I used to live in Wisconsin. No more.
Sunny NC for me, baby! :banana
Where the low was 12 degrees above zero.
That's enough weather drama for me.
Going down to a balmy 12 degrees tonight.
Gotta put a double blanket on the strawberries, chard, spinach and collards.
But, the cars started and the pipes still work.
Holy moly! My nose hairs froze together reading this!
You are just having cold weather flashbacks.
Locals will be a little squirrelly the first day the cold snap breaks. That's when I will hide.
If you see any elderly women with a jug of coffee brandy, go the other direction.
walkin' wally
01-16-2009, 18:18
If anyone is interested....33.5 below here at 6 a.m. Calm wind...too cold even for the wind to move!
At least you weren't near the Big Black River in Arootook County where it was unofficially minus 50 degrees below zero this morning and may be a new all time state record if the calibration is correct on the instruments. :)
last night in fort kent maine the temp dropped to 52* below .
Jan LiteShoe
01-16-2009, 20:02
And how about all that snow? (http://www.intellicast.com/Travel/Weather/Snow/Cover.aspx)
Look at Vermont - and the Sierras (not).
last night in fort kent maine the temp dropped to 52* below .
Well, I can't beat that. But on my first serious winter backpack as an
adult, it was minus 32 at 8 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1970. I was a copy editor on the most insignificant desk at the newspaper where I worked. I wrote the story as a freebie, much to the consternation of the Newspaper Guild.
But it was a great story -- you know the silliness of newspapers -- a peon on their staff, surviving at minus 32 -- and in Baxter State Park, that icon of Maine. Well that and after a few months for experts to ponder the situation -- something like the decision faced by the banking institutions these days -- I was assigned to a newly created environmental beat -- not as a promotion, you understand, but as a way to get me out of their hair.
Regardless. It was a break. I have a wall full of plaques and certificates as a result. Almost none of which were proposed by the newspaper industry, but only by those who read newspapers for those things they were interested in reading about.
Sorry, for my long digression. But ever since, I've simply loved cold temperatures.
Please don't tell my wife. She doesn't know that I have a psychological opposition to warm climates. She thinks we should get out of the cold and move to Florida -- or at least to North Carolina.
But somehow, I keep remembering minus 32 at Katahdin Stream, and can't manage to escape the dilemma that it causes -- even 38 years later. OB, can you think of a cure?
Weary
Nearly Normal
01-16-2009, 20:26
Where the low was 12 degrees above zero.
That's enough weather drama for me.
Going down to a balmy 12 degrees tonight.
Gotta put a double blanket on the strawberries, chard, spinach and collards.
But, the cars started and the pipes still work.
Not sure with the rest but you can put the sprikler on the collards. The ice will keep the cold from killing them.
It was 36 below in Presque Isle when I woke up this morning. The car didn't like it, but it eventually started.
It's 20 below right now and it looks like it will be relatively cold for a while. At least there isn't the snow that there was last winter. I'm hoping for an early spring so I get in the woods as soon as possible.
boarstone
01-17-2009, 08:34
We're warming up! Only -23.4 (that's below zero) this a.m. Over 7" of snow predicted for Sunday...
My son lives in Rangely, and he called to report it was 27 below yesterday....
nitewalker
01-17-2009, 10:02
i heard caribu maine broke alltime record for cold lastnite/this morning. i cant recall what they said for actual temp but it must have been coooooooooooold. here in my neck of the woods it fell to -10 again this morning around 7:30am.
Still brisk inland. 29*F and snowing hard here on the coast.
Can't seem to get too worked up about shoveling snow. I have to admit I think it is pretty nice. I'll get back to the complaining tomorrow.
Wet snow, too. It was ugly this AM with the fluffy stuff on ice. OK so that is 1/2 a beech.
boarstone
01-19-2009, 08:02
Oh...that 7-10" snow that was predicted, at least for my area? It's now 14" and still coming down....yahoo! ski time!
boarstone
02-11-2009, 14:43
HOLY SMOKES! Hold onto your hiking gear!:) 52 degrees ABOVE zero up here in Piscataquis county!:banana:banana
boarstone
02-11-2009, 16:25
Oh, we've still got plenty. That's got a ways to go yet. Still over 2 ft on the front lawn.
How much snow remains?
A lot. Even here on the coast we have a foot or more. Multiply that by 3 or 4 in the mountains and on Katahdin.
Weary
YoungMoose
02-11-2009, 18:37
it will go away in about a week i bet
It rained in The County this week, but there is still lots of snow. Until the rain, it was fluffy snow all the way to the ground, which made it hard to snowshoe. The rain helped a bit...I was out at our local state park today climbing our small mountain, and it was much easier going. Still, spring is still quite a bit down the road.
boarstone
02-23-2009, 10:05
Man! Who else in the snow belt got plastered besides me? We must be over 20" here and the "bad weather man" says to expect another 5-10 today?
warraghiyagey
02-23-2009, 10:07
Man! Who else in the snow belt got plastered besides me? We must be over 20" here and the "bad weather man" says to expect another 5-10 today?
Boy am I glad I'm starting my going south hike in October instead of now. I heard there was already alot of people on the trail. Must be some tough going.
boarstone
02-23-2009, 10:24
I can't imagine hikers on the trail if they are in the Smokies...yikees!:eek: North bound this time of year...no way.
Don't get too excited about any talk of spring in ME just yet. Much of the ME mtns got 1-2 feet of new snow yesterday (according to news I watch NECN). Spring is a very long way off for ME. Once it comes you have perhaps a one week window (perhaps couple days?) before the mud and bugs take over and then maybe a delightful but brief summer arrives sometime in July!
David
warraghiyagey
02-23-2009, 11:27
Don't get too excited about any talk of spring in ME just yet. Much of the ME mtns got 1-2 feet of new snow yesterday (according to news I watch NECN). Spring is a very long way off for ME. Once it comes you have perhaps a one week window (perhaps couple days?) before the mud and bugs take over and then maybe a delightful but brief summer arrives sometime in July!
David
That's why I'm leaving in October, I heard there were no bugs then. . .
boarstone
04-18-2009, 20:38
I was up into Jo-Mary today. Road in is dry and not too potholey at all. Not much water running, ditches have water but are normal for this time of year. Went as far as Henderson gate which is 3-4 miles north of the AT crossing at Cooper Brook. Some snow still in the woods in patches. Cooper Brook running full. Only reason the road is in good shape is that it was plowed all winter and got to dry out before the rest of them that were used for snowsled trails. Logging will be active and heavy as soon as the loggers are allowed into the woods after it dries up.( Mud season) Road into Little Jo-Mary pond/B-Pond still snow covered in patches. Another week of this nice 50 deg. weather we're getting and the rest of the dirt roads should be clear of snow and drying. If we don't get any heavy rains, should be good.:)
Saint Alfonzo
04-18-2009, 21:02
Thank You, very much for the info. Boarstone. I 'm looking foward to getting out, and I realy like that area.
Thank you Boarstone. I was trying to find out what the conditions were for hiking in the area as I am thinking of doing a section of the AT near Flagstaff Lake next weekend. I looks like I might be able to do it.
boarstone
04-25-2009, 17:53
I was up into Jo-Mary today to check on the road conditions to Crawford Pond/AT trail crossing. Road not passable into Crawford yet due to the wash outs and still snow covered roads. Lots of snow in the woods up that way yet. Little Jo-Mary Pond is ice-out today....got to see it go! Loons are back at this pond and an otter was out on what was left of the ice playing.
Jan LiteShoe
04-25-2009, 20:54
I was up into Jo-Mary today to check on the road conditions to Crawford Pond/AT trail crossing. Road not passable into Crawford yet due to the wash outs and still snow covered roads. Lots of snow in the woods up that way yet. Little Jo-Mary Pond is ice-out today....got to see it go! Loons are back at this pond and an otter was out on what was left of the ice playing.
Thanks for the word-picture report.
Over 90 degrees here today in the Central carolina Sandhills.
Give me some of that snow!
"Why do we want, what we cannot have..."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060329/ai_n16189542/
:sun
Over 90 degrees here today in the Central carolina Sandhills.
Give me some of that snow!
:sun
Have a look, should cool you off. This was taken the morning after a 2 foot dump in February. (edit: sorry, picture disappeared, don't know what i did.) It snowed in the mountains last weekend above the 2000' zone.
Get your Black Fly repellent ready and your Tick repellent on. I pulled my first creepy crawler off me yesterday after a walk in the woods.
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6162&stc=1&d=1240741822
I was up to the Bigelows this weekend around Flagstaff Lake checking on the new reroute that is going into place later this year. There was still some snow on the ground in area where the sun could not reach but not enought to worry about at the lower elevations. I could still see some snow up on Avery Peak though.
http://appalachianpages.com/gallery/data/611/medium/IMG_0181.JPG (http://appalachianpages.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1366)
http://appalachianpages.com/gallery/data/611/medium/IMG_01721.JPG (http://appalachianpages.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1363)
Was the ice out on Flagstaff Rick, or on its way out?
Was the ice out on Flagstaff Rick, or on its way out?
When I went in Friday there was a lot of ice on Flagstaff, by Saturday afternoon it was almost all gone. The weather was in the 70's Friday and Saturday.
I am thinking about going up again next weekend with my kayak this time.
Saint Alfonzo
05-02-2009, 19:16
I took a ride today. I made it to Nahmakanta lake, south end. I came in from the Kokadjo side. The old, Dodge Stratus, had no problem getting there. The roads are still soft, but passable. There has been a crew working on the roads and cutting the brush from the sides of the roads.
I went out again this weekend to the Andover area. I hiked from Surplus Pond north to do trail maintenance. I had to turn around after two miles because I hit snow and I got tired of post holing up to my knees.
modiyooch
05-08-2009, 19:24
I went out again this weekend to the Andover area. I hiked from Surplus Pond north to do trail maintenance. I had to turn around after two miles because I hit snow and I got tired of post holing up to my knees.
Seriously? now, I'm bummed. I'm ready to hop a plane for some AT day hiking. Don't like hiking in snow, though.
boarstone
05-09-2009, 14:23
Blackflies are out up my way, trout should be bitting soon and fiddleheads are ready!
boarstone
05-23-2009, 20:52
Just back from this trip w/Paddler...blackflies and skeeters are out in force. Met 4 hikers nobo, 3 guys, 1 gal....they were in day 4 of their hike, assume they started from Monson.
We were on trail by 8:30, arrived at Crawford rd crossing at 12 ish. We road walked a mile(uphill) to a woods road turn off that backtracks back down the opposite side of Cooper Brook/At. At the bottom of the valley we camped overnight and continued on the next a.m. Got down into the 30's, my thermometer said about 38-40 deg. Left camp at 7 hiking via woods road, out to Jo-Mary rd at 9ish. Skeeters were horrible in there,:( the road washed out in places, all culverts removed, old bridges in bad shape even for foot traffic. Nice loop trail. Saw no critters to speak, 3 snakes, 2 toads, 1 chipmunk, 1 kingfisher at Crawford pond.
Cooper Brook is running pretty full, falls were great.
For our first seasons outing it went pretty well, sore of course but not too bad considering. :)
Just a Hiker
05-23-2009, 20:58
I climbed Katahdin today and the Hunt Trail is in great shape for those who may be interested! I got an email from Trek (Began NOBO on 1 Jan) and he was in Andover,ME........he said the trail in Maine is in good shape overall!
Just Jim
Slo-go'en
05-23-2009, 21:14
I met a couple of SOBOer's at the "Save-a-lot" who just did the Mahoosucs the other day and they said they were post holeing in deep snow in places...(then I gave them a ride back into Gorham)
Still a fair amount of snow visable in King Ravine on Mt Adams now too. It usually takes until mid June for the "7" to disappear on King Ravine, that's when the locals say its safe to go swiming.
Deep snow in the high elevations, talking 5-6 feet deep. Just got back from 4,000'+ Redington next to the Crockers in the high peaks region, will post some pictures of the walls of snow on the trail. I had heard that 60" of snow fell during the last big storm and now i believe it !
On Redington near 4000' . This wall of snow in the middle of the trail nearly turned me back 50 yds. from the summit but found a way around it, with some work.
vonfrick
03-10-2010, 22:20
On Redington near 4000' . This wall of snow in the middle of the trail nearly turned me back 50 yds. from the summit but found a way around it, with some work.
you are a complete badass :cool:
Hope you had a hood on for that mess.
boarstone
05-02-2010, 09:25
Just did the section of AT trail in the wilderness from Crawford Pond/B Pond Rd SOBO to the W.Branch Pond Rd. NOBO side of Little Boardman Mt. has blowdowns of beach trees, on the SOBO side of the mt. all the way over to the river crossing of the E. Pleasant river has numerous blowdowns of hemlock and spruce. Hopefully this will be cleared by the time NOBO's show up. Have sent said report to MATC. No snow. Whitecap is another matter.
boarstone
05-02-2010, 09:27
Forgot to add: I encountered a trail crew coming NOBO from the Whitecap/W Branch ponds rd, working their section over to the river. They were doing a great job!
TJ aka Teej
05-03-2010, 11:36
Just did the section of AT trail in the wilderness from Crawford Pond/B Pond Rd SOBO to the W.Branch Pond Rd. NOBO side of Little Boardman Mt. has blowdowns of beach trees, on the SOBO side of the mt. all the way over to the river crossing of the E. Pleasant river has numerous blowdowns of hemlock and spruce. Hopefully this will be cleared by the time NOBO's show up. Have sent said report to MATC. No snow. Whitecap is another matter.
Thanks for the update, Boarstone!
Howz bugs?
Getting better, more bugs = less people :sun
Spent Sat. night just north of Big Wilson Stream with a couple other crazy WBers, bugs out in force during afternoon.
Worse than the bugs was the bone chilling ford at Big Wilson, ice water....
boarstone
05-03-2010, 16:49
Howz bugs?
No blackfly but had mosquitoes all night and BIGuns'.
boarstone
05-03-2010, 16:52
About the ford at E. Branch Pleasant river...waist deep, cold but not bone chilling that I was expecting, lost footing and got VERY wet. I'm getting too old for this crap but I wanted to see this section in the spring...thank-you very much it will be my LAST spring!