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On 3/10/2024 at 11:11 PM, powderfreak said:

A comparison of the same location at Barnes Camp over the past couple days.

Stowe Mountain Rescue training the other day in one photo.  Then early this evening as the upslope started.  Bare and dusty ground to winter.

The change in scenery is nice. Friday was full late-spring vibes.  Today is winter.  Moving from late April back to March.  More winter over the next 24 hours too.

Those are nice machines.

2 hours ago, tamarack said:

Most adaptable large animal in North America - they've been seen living in downtown LA and it wouldn't surprise me to hear of them in Manhattan.  They've been in Maine for 90+ years.

I live near a few hundred acres and hear a pack howling some nights, sometimes it sounds like a frenzy, probably caught a cat or whatever else they eat. Actually, saw a huge one cross the road and a small young one cross the road on a highway near me, damn things are everywhere.

10 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I don't recall any winter being much better frankly, since 2015.

Some had a March event that sort of "cheated" their way to a modest recovery but ... I hate winter in March as a standing wave phenomenon ...so those don't count for me. LOL. 

DJF have all been equally yummy shit-stuffed-down-throat seasons, year after year, now exceeding the length of the 1980s "abysmality"  (inventing words)

I realize this is not be as true across northern and rarer, central New England.. but along the Rt Poop corridor down here - it's been winter shits for a long, long, long long time

I'm not crazy about March snowstorms either, they're nice to have but with the sun angle the melting starts immediately. I prefer to start building a pack end of Dec beginning of Jan with additions in Feb, 2015 was good for that but I also like 2011.

3 minutes ago, HimoorWx said:

Any animal experts out there? Was this a coyote in our backyard last night?

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Sure was, a good size one too

8 hours ago, tamarack said:

Late report:  Our dog got skunked Saturday night from a critter near our back porch, maybe under it.  First time for her.  Fortunately, either the skunk shot only a small dose or the dog was missed by the worst, but it was bad enough.  She came back tail under butt, very embarrassed.  Then I further traumatized her by dragging her into the shower stall (she's mostly Lab but hates water) and scrubbed her using a dog-deodoring spray and warm water from a pot my wife had filled.  Did not turn on the shower - dog would've been even more unhappy and I'd have been much wetter.  Dog smells normal though there's still a bit of aroma in the house.

That's happened to two of my dogs over the years, I used peroxide, baking soda and dawn dishwashing detergent. Worked great except I couldn't get near her eyes so I used douche.

1 hour ago, Torch Tiger said:

When the sun pops it does feel nice, but it's a rather chilly day overall with the wind roaring.

It looks like a nice warm day from inside the house until you go out and get blasted by the cold wind.

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

As soon as we got some sun out all hell breaking loose with winds 

Was just in CT there were trash cans and all kinds of debris in the road.

18 minutes ago, Brewbeer said:

About 1.25 inches rain here yesterday and overnight.  Sump pump is running this morning.

My sister's sump has been running for a week straight almost 24 hours a day.

25 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

I saw that.  Kinda scary how far ahead greenup is.  Even my grass is turning green.  One April coldwave could do some real damage.

I hope I don't lose my fruit this year, bad year last year due to the late freeze.

4 hours ago, MJO812 said:

I'm watching a documentary on Blizzards and they are talking how the winter of 2009-2010 was great for the whole country.

 

We really need to get back to snowy winters. It will eventually happen but who knows when.

Great for the whole country, except for New England as we watched huge storm dump feet of snow south of us.

On 3/6/2024 at 7:10 PM, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Robbins are in Massachusetts all winter but they are not necessarily the same ones you see in summer.  In the winter we probably have robbins from a little further north and our summer robins go a little further south.

They trade AIRBN'Bs

Looks good for PF and Central Maine and NH.

1 hour ago, WinterWolf said:

The boys(3 of us go in on a cabin for the season). They took 2 trips, I couldn’t break away when they went due to work. Never thought this season that I wouldn’t have another opportunity this year, but so it goes.  After late January..they got zero snow, it was cold enough, just no storms got up there. 
 

2016 was another bad year up there where I was only able to take one trip(in March).  I’m usually able to take 3-4 trips, but not this go around. 

You guys go 4 ways on a cabin rental for the winter?

22 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Hundreds of geese in the fields, Farmington/New Sharon yesterday.  They may know something, since they wager hundreds of flying miles that the ground will be open enough to feed them.  If they're wrong, they're in trouble.  Monday at Flying Pond I saw one lone goose heading north - scouting?

I saw a large flock going north a few days ago and thought the same thing.

13 minutes ago, katabatic said:

So it ends. Let the long journey home commence. Based on additional snowfall yesterday and last night, ended up with 130 inches. Too expensive, somewhat irresponsible, totally impulsive, achingly laborious. And I will look back with nary an ounce of regret as this was the best tasting chicken soup for the soul I could have imagined. 

I wouldn't regret a dollar spent, that's awesome. You have more pics?

2 hours ago, tamarack said:

Nothing taller than 2700' north of Baxter, but there's probably halfway decent snow at 1k+ west of Rt 11 and north of the Realty Road.

Pack is down to 7" and dropping.  Earliest that it's gone to zero/trace is 3/14 in 2006; we may challenge that date this month.  The adventure I had on Flying Pond yesterday (noted in the banter thread) was due to the pond's rise and resulting bathtub ring around the shore.  That will only get worse this week, eliminating access on most ponds south of Moosehead.  The Sandy River from Farmington and downstream is essentially clear of ice, also the earliest I've seen ice out there.

I remember ice fishing and early morning we went out and drilled holes and set up out tilts, later that afternoon we picked up our equipment and were faced with the bathtub ring. Got a little wet making it to shore but a good memory.

45 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

 

We can hope.. even if it doesn't happen here I'll travel for something  good

Should have travelled to the Sierras last week.

9 hours ago, MJO812 said:

 

What was the result? I vaguely remember.

Time to prune the fruit trees, should have already done it but I have a cord worth of branches and sticks in my yard.

Just hit 60, took a ride, feels like April

Just now, tamarack said:

Found ~12" (3" gray, 9" black) on Flying Pond, about 10 miles south of my place, but almost no action last Tuesday.  Maybe try again Monday.  In an average winter there would be 18-20" this time of year.

It’s actually pretty amazing.  Summers are dry and beautiful with long days and light until close to 9:30-10pm in high summer.  You’re within 90 minutes of epic snows in winter with the occasional snower into the city.

I've only been there (actually near Olympia) twice, both times for Thanksgiving week, and there was rain every day both times.  Only about 4 of the 14 days were stormy all day; the others had occasional showers - every cloud seemed to spill a little.  Some say that it only rains once in November, from the 1st thru the 30th.

I was there for a couple days before an Alaska cruise in June and it was also drizzly for both days. On the way back from the cruise it was a 70 degree sunny day, that was the day we went home.

10 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Like this frame… you can’t see them but on the backside/downhill of every rock is going to be a gap/hole, often just covered by wind-blown fluff.  It’s a massive boulder field with like rocks of 20-30 feet high and between them is often air.  Its spooky.  You move very gingerly.

Skis often help distribute the weight and you can get through.  But if this guy got off his skis and tried to walk down that, he’d disappear.

 

This whole video is filled of them.  Looks like someone uncovered one between those rocks in front of the skier.

 

The one in the right will eat a person.

I watched one of those shows, lucky to be alive or something like that and a guy out west fell head first into a hole near a tree. He couldn't move but got damn lucky someone later in the day noticed something sticking out of the snow and he got help and he got out. That has to be a terrifying way to go.

On 2/27/2024 at 8:17 AM, Layman said:

I enjoy reading about the lost/abandoned ski areas of New England and found this one to be relative due to the reasonably extensive coverage of their struggles throughout the 1980's due to lack of snow.  Everything now seems to be hyped as the "most", "worst", "extreme", etc but some of us have lived through so much of all this before.  Snow lovers in the 1980's = snow lovers in the 2020's.

Mt. Tom, Holyoke, MA:  https://www.newenglandskihistory.com/Massachusetts/mttom.php 

 

This was a fun quote from the page:  "Though the 1984-85 season started on December 9, there was no more skiing until the day after Christmas. The holiday skiing too was short-lived, as temperatures soared into the 70s and melted the manmade snow. Manager Dave Moore told the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, "If Mount Tom depended on what (snow) was on the ground, it would have been out of business 25 years ago." The season likely ended after the first weekend in March."

Used to ski there all the time when I was in School, they had night skiing, so we'd go after class, 45 minutes away and get a few good runs in. This was back in the 80s so we had to go when we got some snow. Fun little mountain.

21F here

58 minutes ago, AstronomyEnjoyer said:

I used to live in Tehachapi, CA at a little over 4000ft and whenever the southern Sierras were getting smoked I might manage half an inch of rain and 2 inches of slop if I was lucky. Hell yeah, I'd sign up for the real thing any day.

Did you ever head up higher to experience the big snows?