View Full Version : There's snow in them thar mountains
Captured this zoom image (http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=19290&) yesterday while in the hood. Snow looks to be above 3500'+ on north slopes.
Just a heads up if you are thinking about heading out into the higher peaks in the northeast:)
I was just up there a couple of weeks ago and there was no snow which means that snow is fairly recent. So much for climbing Katahdin this weekend.
Kirby
shelterbuilder
10-18-2007, 06:59
Captured this zoom image (http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=19290&) yesterday while in the hood. Snow looks to be above 3500'+ on north slopes.
Just a heads up if you are thinking about heading out into the higher peaks in the northeast:)
Judging by your photos, you've got some lovely country up there. I haven't made it up that far yet - got side-tracked down here on shelters etc. Those pictures get me feeling "antsy".
TJ aka Teej
10-18-2007, 07:33
Snow on Katahdin:
http://www.katahdincam.com/
The Solemates
10-18-2007, 09:36
there was snow in the 'dacks this weekend. lots of it in the high peaks region. we were postholing atop summits.
There's snow up in the Rockies, too.
It seems there's a good (what I think of anyway) Oct 1st rule-of-thumb for the hike peaks regions throughout the lower 48. If you are out much past Oct 1st, there is a good chance it will be winter in the high country and no longer fall!
Anyway, I am off to do some car camping this weekend in Rocky Mtn NP with some hiking in the high country. We'll see how much snow there is. :)
There's snow up in the Rockies, too.
It seems there's a good (what I think of anyway) Oct 1st rule-of-thumb for the hike peaks regions throughout the lower 48. If you are out much past Oct 1st, there is a good chance it will be winter in the high country and no longer fall!
Anyway, I am off to do some car camping this weekend in Rocky Mtn NP with some hiking in the high country. We'll see how much snow there is. :)
Ah yes, going after one of them Rocky Mtn highs
Someone should write and sing a song about an Appalachian high:D
Any music artists out there?
Ah yes, going after one of them Rocky Mtn highs
Someone should write and sing a song about an Appalachian high:D
Any music artists out there?
Heh.... Not me. As the cliche' goes, I could not carry a tune in a bucket!
I really, really, really need to get back to New England in the Fall and experience and Appalachian High again! I was supposed to go this year, but life intereferes at times....
I was in Stowe Vermont this past weekend and the whole peak was covered with what I THOUGHT was snow, when I got up there I found out it was just ice LOL...looked pretty though :)
Jim Bowie
10-18-2007, 11:25
I went from 17 to 27 this weekend.
Rime ice on Saddleback/Horn/Jr.
Snow on Sugarloaf/N. & S. Crocker.
I was sleeted on setting up my hammock at Cirque. Fantastic!
Lone Wolf
10-18-2007, 11:27
BS! y'all are lying. global warming won't allow it. Al said
warren doyle
10-18-2007, 13:00
Rime ice on the trees on Clingman's Dome last Thursday morning. Beautiful!
Snow and ice does make for some beautiful scenes on trees and mountains.
It also adds a survivability element when out hiking in it which i don't mind
As far a global warming, we here in the far northeast experienced the coolest summer in a decade or more. Al must be talking about points south of here.