powderfreak

Yeah! Some good content lately up high. Have seen 3" cumulative inches at 3,000ft the past few days up this way. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CreTtfwJ6FN/

Mount Washington Auto Road page.

Love how mountain peaks poke up into different weather than we see in the inhabited elevations. MWN looks to have received some snow above 5,000ft.

Could be worse for sure. Enjoyed a nice post-work hour skin up for about 2,000 vertical feet of skiing. Folks are still out enjoying it, decent post-work crowd today. Warms up with sun but wet flakes when showers move in.

Yeah July 3rd or 4th in 2021 was when the Mansfield summit saw the same temp as like Christmas Day that previous winter. It was something like that. Both holidays terrible for the opposite reason (torch Xmas and raw cold 4th).

Good point. Soggy fields and trails add to that “spring shit” vibe more than 55F bone dry reg flag weather stuff.

lol. Definitely first world problems. As the forum shes though, the bookend seasons become less and less appealing. Maybe Kev had it all along… just go deep winter to deep summer and try as hard as possible to avoid anything in between those two things.

I remember as a kid loving sports in those cooler 50s and 60s, much more than 80s. Though I’m sure parents sitting on the sidelines not engaged in activities differ in opinions. Overall though if it’s north of 50F it’s not that bad coming out of winter. 55F in October after summer heat has people wearing winter parkas with hats and gloves. 55F in April after winter hits much easier. It feels like hoodie weather. Which is sort of what late April should be?

Today seems worse than yesterday up here at this time. Yesterday was patches of blue sky mixed with graupel convective cells… this is just slate gray low overcast and cool.

That’s a good way to put it. Not worst case scenario but not good either.

It’s like some parallel universe when TauntonBlizz starts advocating a glass half full outlook on weather instead of half empty. Sounds like everyone is sort of talking about the same weather though, just interpreting it differently. 55-60F with brief showers/cores mixed with sun can both feel bad when raining but then a couple hours of sun at 60F also feels quite nice this time of year. Its not beach weather but it’s also April. Could easily be cooler/nastier for an extended period of time. Probably rooted in perspective. 36F and dense fog here this morning, not beautiful, ha.

Ha! They are such resourceful creatures that take path of least resistance, but that one is on you lol. Broke into a friend’s jeep last summer for donuts, never leave your doors unlocked either. There’s a mom and two cubs in my neighborhood that I haven’t seen yet but several neighbors have past couple days… the bears are alive.

Had a few periods of ok weather today between graupel, rain and snow showers. Got a skin and ski in this afternoon, snow level was around 3,000ft when the cells would move through.

Hilltops around here got dusted up last night.

Just around 2” at 3000ft. Getting graupel now at the office at ski area base. Loud stuff.

So jealous. Dark low clouds here.

Yeah, wild place at 6,000ft. It's just so high up there. The crazy thing is the difference in weather between 3Kft and MWN summit is the same as it is from sea level to 3Kft (which is huge). Up at 4,000ft had a half inch to an inch of very sloppy wet paste this morning on Mansfield at like 33F. A thousand feet lower at 3,000ft a bunch of white rain with just a trace/clumpy coating on the board from this event so far on the webcam.

Damn, over 2" of clear ice on Mount Washington. Check out the ice depth on the front of this snowcat they posted.

Another 0.36” in the Stratus today with -RN. Just soaked.

Snowed last night on the summit

Yeah there are the ones you can see that are like ok, you just yanked the saturation slider all the way to the side. I typically don’t use saturation, often my edits are like Eric stated, mostly to do with lighting. Usually the color is there to begin with, it’s just the lighting that can use some tweaking. I mean shooting photos in NVT in winter with clouds and snow, it can look like the inside of a paper bag type darkness and I need shutter speeds to capture fast movement of skiers/riders. Most of my edit is brightening.

Yeah, you just want people to say "my photo of XYZ"... not "This is what Joe Public saw of XYZ with the naked eye" like it's a science project. I mean anyone who has ever picked up a National Geographic mag or watched Planet Earth etc and thinks they are just scenes the naked eye sees are lying to themselves, ha. Most of it also comes down to FOMO...fear of missing out. Did I miss that beautiful display? Or would I not have seen it that way? If not, then I don't feel like I missed anything. If yes, then damn I wish I saw that, ha.

Isn’t that what it is though? I have no problems with the time lapses… I mean look up at the sky at night and it doesn’t look like the starry photos with Milky Way exploding overhead like a good nighttime lapse shows…. Or extended fireworks time lapse, etc. I guess I’ve always thought of photography as trying to elicit an emotional response, like all art tries. No one wants to print and put a 3 foot photo on their living room wall of what the naked eye sees at midnight looking around, lol. I guess it depends on what you are going for. I like that you can line up half a dozen photographers and get half a dozen interpretations of the same scene.

Sign up for around an inch every time. Even in big regionwide precip (or even snows), you just want to be solidly into the game. Vegetation wise, it does not matter in the least. The whole northeastern region is now Stein free for 1-2 weeks even if another drop of rain doesn't fall during that time.

1.86" and 39F here. Emptied the Stratus. Standing water everywhere. Feels like December, ha.