powderfreak

Looks like some light snow and icing last night here.

Seeing is believing.

I love these little clips you get. How do you post that media?

A memory from 5 years ago in 2017. We were in the midst of a stretch of 108 inches at the High Road Snow Stake in 3 weeks. This was the only time in memory that had a tragic UVM student die from drowning in the snow. It was like 5 feet of unconsolidated snow (like what's on the left side of this photo) and if you got flipped upside down for some reason with your equipment on you may not be able to get your head back up above the snow. I have never heard of that ever happening in the east before. Had 375" that season at the High Road Stake. It snowed every day it seemed.

Ha! I may be remembering his name from a decade ago in BGM. I think they are both him.

Where's @kulaginman? This event has looked primed for his cabin up there on the hill in Jackson. Looking forward to Waterville on Tuesday if this is close to correct. It's almost like the snow axis is showing where the CAD spots are... ME foothills down through Dendy.

Now those are some low level glades right there. When you mentioned it I think of some glades around Mansfield but not at that level of openness and ease for kids. The Chapel, Sunrise, Birch glades at Stowe are probably similar to that pitch but not that wide open. Nosedive Glades are wide open but can get into a few more "interesting" shots/parts. Our scale of "relativeness" probably starts to change over time with what we get used to.

The sunset earlier this evening was fire.

100%. We get the radiating nights that cool nicely and lucky enough to have slider doors in almost every room so leave those open it can get cold inside quick even after 85F days (except when the bears are around, wife won’t allow screens to be the only thing from one walking into the kitchen). The problem comes on the last day or two of a hot stretch when dews pump and southerly flow keeps it well mixed and it’s still 70F at midnight outside and not 57F. I think I run our current A/C unit 2 weeks a warm season. May has been very hot the past couple years it seems. I will say if I have a quiet mini-split set up I’ll run A/C more in the evening. The 6-9pm time can be tough before the sun goes down and the quick drop happens. And like you said the big benefit is using it in the shoulder seasons when its “chilly” and you just want some heat but don’t need the full heating system. I think of early autumn and say the May/June rainy 48-55F days.

I'm still not sure I buy it but Waterville on Tuesday might line up nicely if it comes through with that QPF just south of the Presidentials. Though might be a bit too far west?

Yeah the summers have seemed warmer and more humid too in the past 10 years, so if that trend continues A/C is a good move. I feel like even a decade ago no one around here had A/C... now everyone has installed something.

Damn that's impressive! The fireplace is key though. My buddy lost his boiler and kept his place going in the upper 60s with a single woodstove. Heat pump this spring for sure for me, need a backup source, it's too cold up here to mess around with that. Was -17F here last night but inducer fan is holding in there with the wire straps.

NAM is on crack IMO, ha.

Ha that's actually another thing that made us delay, the rebates at the end of last summer were very "meh" because those things had gotten so popular. But I just read somewhere that Efficiency Vermont has another deal running this winter with $1K back if purchased before February 28th. They seem to do them with the demand, so I've got to get on that. It seems to change every couple months to be honest.

That’s wild. I mean it’s been lots of radiational nights but still even historically mixed places like BTV have been below zero like half the days for mins. BTV -7F MVL -17F Thats the radiational difference.

-17F. Fak me. This winter has been absurd for cold nights.

The irony is we were going to put in an electric heat pump for A/C and heat last August/September but deferred until the spring. I wanted it primarily for better AC than what we have now and it’s much more efficient. Had we gone ahead with that project we’d be fine. It wouldn’t have been hot like a stove but serviceable heat. I just balked as I wanted it for better AC than what we have now and given it was later in summer, temps on downhill slide, I figured we’d do it in April/May before the warm season. Oops.

Boiler inducer motor anchor screws are loose/compromised and it vibrated enough to where the fan jammed up by making contact with the housing. Without that fan moving air, the thing won’t ignite. Need a new inducer motor unit which from what I was shown looks like a pretty easy fix once the part is in. They cost a couple hundred bucks as a part online. I’ll give the guy credit, he jerry-rigged it as well as he could with pipe strapping to attempt to keep the fan from hitting the housing and we are back up in the mid-60s for temps. Fingers crossed that strapping can hold for a few days.

BTV’s version…

That looks beautiful. Ice storms in the sun are about as picturesque as it gets.

Hard to get “parents” and “girth” in the same sentence but nicely done.

Woke up early this morning and it felt cold inside... huh. Checked thermostats, set-temps all at 65F and all zones reading the same 60F. Uh oh. That's a sinking feeling when temps are in the single digits outside. Not sure what's up, went downstairs and seems the boiler is not igniting... the fan runs, the thermostat zone relays all are asking for heat (it's baseboard hot water) but boiler (propane) doesn't want to ignite. A bit harder on a Saturday but emergency service should be here any minute, about 6 hours after I discovered the issue. Meanwhile my perpetual optimism has me thankful this issue has allowed me to have my first Saturday off from work since November, ha. This is so nice, getting some stuff done on an extra day off around home while it's 52F inside now. The funny thing is even at temps of like 10F the floor to ceiling south facing windows have managed to recover the temperature up a couple degrees in the past 90 minutes.

Some good skiing this morning.

I’ll be at Waterville on Tuesday for a Gear Day to test next year’s products… never been, looking forward to a foray into NH ski country.

Looks like 12.5” on the level here sticking a ruler into the dog run area… that’s 4” after 5am. Wife’s car has about 2” fluff since she got home at 2pm (about half inch per hour). I’ll take net increases of a solid foot and over 1” of QPF all day long. Snowbanks and town look like a winter wonderland, real ski town look.