gravitylover

Small flakes started a little while ago. Temp is 21 and wind is strong and appears to be mostly out of the east.

Flakes!

My daughter said the Butternut was 'firm' yesterday. Jason yeah I sure did have some epic days. I'm so glad I got to do all of that while I was in my 20's.

Thanks NZ and Rob. Everyone keeps saying they're impressed with how quickly I'm moving forward but, strangely, I feel like it's been a long slow process. I'm not very patient when it comes to things like recovering and I'm so used to just doing things that the restrictions feel very confining. The diet change has also been frustrating. If I sound less than grateful for the good things I'm not, I just don't express that as well.

I dunno, now that I'm cleared to get out and do outdoor things again I really want to go for a bike ride so snow isn't what I'm hoping for. I went for a short hike in the woods yesterday and now my brain is screamin' for the type of therapy that only a mt bike ride in the woods can provide. C'mon spring

Looks like a great course and the price is surely right. I guess I need to bring my clubs and schedule 4-5 hours out of a work day some time this year.

Good timing

Is this course open for public play? I love playing small, out of the way courses and I'm up that way 2 or 3 times a season. I never understood why they hold that tournament at this time of year. It can be rotten in the middle of the summer right on the water there but in February? What's up guys. I've been playing since I was 7 so, 45 years. I still hit a mean drive, unfortunately it doesn't go where I think it's going to go often enough. Every now and then like about 5 years ago on sun baked hardpan I put one out at 335 and it rolled to within 6 feet of the pin. One putt and it's the only eagle I've ever had. Well, the only one that counted. I had one on frozen ground back in high school and the ball just kept rolling like it was on a highway and rolled onto the green ~ 500 yards out. It was February so there was no hole or pin so we just chose a spot and when I putted the ball rolled over it. We also used to keep a ball in an inside pocket so for every shot, we'd pull it out and swap with the cold ball so we weren't always hitting frozen balls which was nicer on our hands.

I lived in Steamboat for 6 years back in the late 80's and early 90's. It rained there more often than you'd imagine. I remember one day in particular where it was heavy rain and 45* at the base and freezing mist and rain and near 0 up top. The whole mountain turned into a block of ice, some of the trees came through in great shape but the trails were terrible until they got groomed a few times. I spent a winter at Targhee/Jackson and it got wet a few times too. I know it rains in the winter at Big Mt Montana and all of the ski areas in Idaho but I haven't had the pleasure. Tahoe? I lived there for a while too, forget about it, when it rains there it doesn't fool around. After rolling through a 6 week blitz of over 30 feet it rained 3 or 4 times followed by raging winds and a 40+ degree temp drop. Those mountains would freeze solid 6" thick (on top of a 250-300" base) and it would be unbearable for days until it warmed up and then it would be the most glorious corn ever.

Oh yeah, much. I was just showing how readily they'll shut stuff down up here. Reality though is that 4" is the same amount everywhere and the impact is a bit greater in a place as hilly as around here.

Yay more mud

My kids go to Western CT State U in Danbury and a few of their professors have already decide they won't have school on Tuesday so they emailed out or posted assignments already. Granted there are 6k students and a ton of staff that commute so they, and most of the colleges around here, have very low standards for when they close.

"...dark clouds..." Haha yeah just the idea that it might snow or sleet later in the day is enough for them to cancel school here. The bus dept. says 'No we're not taking that risk' and the schools have to close. It does get pretty sketchy on some of the hills around the town so it's probably the right call but... geez Nice post @RU848789

I got lucky with the trees last year, it's this winter that it became a problem.

There were at least a couple of small storms through my growing up on LI years that we got snow days from school at least once a year most years. If it wasn't for snow it was for ice. Nah last summer was brutally humid and uncomfortable a lot of the time.

That's alright they really need the water. The deep snowpack they've got out there this winter means we will be able to afford to eat fresh fruits and veggies this year.

Boy did I hate those storms. Inches and inches of sleet. That was some of the most annoying stuff ever to have to move with a shovel. It was like ball bearings rolling around and off the shovel. Too many inches Then to make it worse the first storm of the next year was all sleet too.

Again?

Yay more rain!

On the upside, it's pretty painless to shovel rain out of the driveway.

Approximately the same amount of time away from the solstice since the last similar temperature. I'm not sure what the significance of that is, if any, but it occurred to me so I pointed it out. Hey, I tell ya what. This warm weather stuff is kind of nice so if you could just hold off on the cold talk some of us would appreciate it

I was wondering about that possibility.

When I lived in Colorado those padding the stats snows were what kept the ski conditions awesome. Under a strong high, which is the majority of the winter, it would snow 2-4" a night 4 or 5 times a week. The streets wouldn't melt off between mid December and late March except for the main highway/main street and even those would stay snowpacked for 6-8 weeks and the surface on the ski areas would be soft all the time. Sure we'd get a couple of big synoptic storms and those would ensure the totals would get over 250" but it was the pocket change snows that would keep it fresh and white.

60* feels pretty good

That's all December was, pennies though not nickels. I had a total of 1" for the month and it snowed 4 or 5 times. At least I can call January 5" That puts me at 13" for the season so far, not sure where that puts me in relation to last year. Yup I was looking at how much the ice surfaces melted on the lakes and reservoirs today and thinking it will be gone in just a few days. It really does feel like winters back is broken. I didn't have that feeling last year when we struggled through 6 weeks of non winter in the middle of the season though.