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My issue with Subaru's is mostly mechanical. I have never liked the boxer motors, they all feel underpowered and the power bands are funky. Plus they all inevitably end up with terrible heat shield rattles and I've had two that blew the head gaskets. The straight 4s in the yotas and hondas just feel way better to me and have a much longer tack record of longevity and performance.

I'm sure you're right but the amount of Tacoma's with VT plates lined up at the mountain bike trailheads in NoCo all summer paints a different picture for this Mainer. And the X-terra, wow. I still see quite a few of those, now 15 years old or more, rattling around the backroads of western Maine. The yellow one's stick out especially.

The tacoma being number #3 is so Burlington, Vermont. That might be VT's new "subaru" at this point.

Maine is similar, not surprisingly. Half my road, myself included, has a RAV. I also have a Subaru and the RAV is a vastly superior vehicle. 1. Ford F-Series 2. Chevrolet Silverado 3. Ram 1500/2500/3500 4. Toyota RAV4 5. GMC Sierra

headed to Jay this afternoon. Hoping for some upslope magic tomorrow night. Model spread is pretty wide and BTV is not buying much. If you guys in VT could cue up some fake snow for me that would be great.

Lots of people from away bought lake front houses on private camp roads during COVID and are finding out the hard way about mud season. You can't live year round down a half mile dirt road that drops 200 feet to the lake and drive a Prius. Not happening.

Seems like we're getting some run to run support since 12z yesterday. Hoping things line up!

Any thoughts on this weekend from the northern Greens crew? Skiing has been great here but just booked a weekend at Jay on a whim and GFS is selling a nice upslope event after the rain Friday and Saturday.

Stolen from FB. This is in the gaspe as of yesterday. Far northern Maine into Quebec are just absolutely buried right now. Reminds me of 15-16 when I went up to Ft Kent last week of March. No snow at all through Ashland then once we got over the hill on 11 north of wallagrass it was just feet and feet of snow and got another 6” that first day there. Skied at lonesome pines which was fun for the novelty of it. .

Summit of the rock pile is NoCo’s Kaliningrad

This is the same dude who proposed a 25,000 sq ft hotel at that site back in 2017. I think he just does this for the press and visibility. No way was that or this happening. With that said the the Presis and other popular places in the Whites are a circus and what harm will a little more development do to an already clapped out, abused and masshole infested clownland? If it were up to me, and it’s not, I’d have torn down the auto road, train, and summit restaurant long ago. Hell even the observatory can go too as far as I’m concerned.

Back to back snowers bookending a multi day torch is how you run spring in the mountains of western Maine.

I mentioned it in the other thread but GFS seems to be buying into the CAD signal as well.

and still out in clown range but GFS seems to picking up on the CAD idea that the euro has been selling for this weekend. I think our areas are probably cooked for that one but could be another nice event for the mountains.

Temp dropped to 33 and accumulating nicely now.

Just flipped here, right on schedule. Gonna have a tough time accumulating until we get the colder surface temps though.

Snowing at river on their webcam

It's one of the last freestone rivers too. Allagash would be the same way if not for the dams, although it's headwaters hold substantially more water than the St. John ponds.

lmao at the donut hole over central and southwestern Maine on the GFS. I'm now having a full blown melt. Let's get this POS winter out of here and hope that one of these years we can actually get a coastal that blows up in the Gulf. Enough of these gradient storms and endless warm sectors. The last three plus years here have just been brutal. We're badly overdue.

Appreciate the advice. I’ve spent a lot of time in that country but never paddled the whole extent of the river from Baker down to the village. We’ve paddled the Allagash many times but the upper St. John country just has a different feel to it.

Further. St Agatha ft Kent Allagash latitude I would think

love it. Keep the photos coming. Nothing better than deep snow and deep winter in the big woods.

Someone in Vermont is going to get just that. I like your area as well. This has Mahoosucs mauler look to it as well. Long range is pretty meh but with that trough sliding east there may be another window in in the 3/17 time period, but lots of potential to continue to get warm sectored as well. Quebec is just gonna keep getting nuked it looks like. What a winter for our north of the border friends. I was supposed to enjoy a week of what will undoubtedly be incredible high water paddling conditions on the Bonaventure River in Gaspe in June but it looks like COVID has disrupted the outfitter and our plans are canceled. At this rate I'm thinking a late April/early May St. John River trip might be a suitable alternative.

I'm about ready to close the shades on this season but this weekend might rope me back in. Good (ish) trends from 0z to 12z. Looks really good for the VT crew. My area is going to be the battleground. Ensembles were spread way out at 0z but (grasping at straws) the 12z GEFS has a little cluster to the S. Hopefully that shows up on the 12z EPS. The ski areas from SVT up into the Mahoosucs look to grab a much needed, high QPF paste bomb while I enjoy 3" of slop. Hell of way to run a "winter month" in southern Maine.

My advice: don’t come home, it’s ugly around here.