powderfreak

I’m starting to come around to DIT’s line of thinking with if you’ve made it this far, go for wet records now. Pouring in Woodstock with thunder. Slow roller heavy rain. It’s absolutely stunning how it doesn’t miss. Looks to be setting up for some training action on the CT/MA border in ECT.

Sun broke out finally in NE CT and now it feels like a sauna. Hot and humid almost immediately. Crazy what solar input can do. My folks are turning on the A/C now lol. That is just such a difference between 1/4sm fog/mist and sunshine.

That’s all I could think of when reading those posts.

I want a peloton. I was actually in my best shape when I used to bike every day. Hill climbing and distance, even gravel back road riding. Biking is low impact and just a great workout. Great interval training. My knees and ankles are going to be smoked soon from skiing and then hiking. Down hiking is so bad for your knees.

I’m going to have to soon. Takes a lot of effort to go up the mountains every day in order to have a couple beers lol.

We waiting here.

Despite a decade of phallic references on this forum, this might be the first time those two words were used in the same sentence .

Yeah sharp differences between tourist towns and then the other towns that are just “where people live.” Like the difference here between Stowe and Morrisville. Stowe feels like a Boston suburb (which I like as I still feel too young to just live out in the woods) in the mountains… but 10 minutes north in Morrisville where the huge grocery stores are, McDonalds, Tractor Supply, (things normal towns have) and we do all our shopping etc is merely just NNE town of “where people live.” Zero tourists and the Suburbans and Escalades are replaced with lifted pick-ups with muddin’ tires and camo trim, mixed in with Honda Civics that have modified exhausts (and a lot of just normal daily drivers). All in about a 10 minute drive up RT 100. There is without a doubt a difference between tourist towns with name recognition and then just nearby towns where people just live and daily life has very little to do with people from elsewhere. They both have their pluses and minuses. I think once older I’d go for the quieter rural aspect. But hard in your 20s and 30s to live out in the middle of the woods alone ha. Enjoy the hustle and bustle of a bit more activity right now.

A little thunder and brief rain this morning. Clouds still in the trees. Just amazing. True rainforest.

For sure vigorous activity will lead to an overall hotter experience than someone sitting idle outside. I sweat skinning up the mountain in January and definitely get drenched going up 2,000 verts with dews in the 60s, its exercise. No argument lol. It is funny though, I just told my wife if she would go for a 3-5 mile run right now she’d think it was hot and humid. She replies “Are you high right now? What the f*ck are you talking about.”

It’s showing 64F here. Would be hard to have an upper 60s dew I would think. And no, she isn’t going for a 5-mile run right now. If she was, I bet she’d be in shorts, lol. I dunno man, just doesn’t feel “summer” but to each their own. Do you have your A/C cranking?

Now that I’m like a couple towns over from you I think you are more drunk than before. My folks have central AC and haven’t used it in a week or more. My wife’s in a hoodie and long pants, ha. What do you notice the second you walk outside? It’s damp and cool.

Damn. Yeah this was like 2003, who knows what it is now. You wouldn’t get a ticket per se, they’d just move your car down to a lot next to the Coast Guard building in BTV and you pay the dude to get out. Don’t pay, don’t get your car. But I don’t remember an official ticket per se.

Most of the time cities aren’t messing around. I got towed in BTV twice in one snowstorm for violating the Snow Emergency. Had just walked down to the Waterfront to get my car from the tow lot, drove it home, road was plowed so figured I was safe, went inside to have dinner, came out to go to the girlfriends like an hour later and the car was back down at the Waterfront. $150 a pop or something like that. Dude at the lot was laughing his ass off, don’t think it was funny at the time but later had a good laugh.

You guys got a lot of water down here. The old railway/trail at the Thompson Dam in NE CT that’s usually like 5 feet out of the water is completely gone. Water up into the tree canopy. I honestly think last summer that thing was almost 10 feet out of the water with dried mud around. For reference:

It is like a heavy mist. Can’t see the treetops in fog and misting enough to wet the ground again. This is absolutely amazing weather.

It’s true, don’t have to click on it. But it’s the same stuff over and over. It’s more a joke now “we made it a day without COVID disco!” Then again in the past this thread would move two pages a month, lol.

No ones opinion has changed in months, maybe a year. Then folks who say they’ve turned off the news and no longer pay attention to it seem to know an awful lot about what’s going on and love to share .

You guys are growing mushrooms the size of hubcaps down here.

Violent spin. Being down here, this is like the darkest uninspiring day I’ve had in a while lol. If it’s done this for 2+ weeks I get why folks are sick of it.

I never would’ve guessed you had 5-6” so far this month . I think we are around 3” up north, even with today’s rain. Still on pace for a healthy above normal July at that amount if we get 6”.

We are trying to play down here but they had the back 9 closed yesterday due to water and are trying to figure out what holes are playable today in NCT, lol. What a summer.

Already rained twice this morning, like 6am and again at 8am. You guys are living in quite a world down here. Though I see back home the Stowe PWS are 0.40-0.50” this morning so guess some water is making it there too.

It is wild. Left Stowe in the sunshine and 82F, normal warm summer day, and the car said like 66 or 67F in the murky forest pulling in down here. Like where’d summer go?

Got down to the swamp in NE CT, hit rain on the drive as soon as we crossed the Mass border from VT. In North Woodstock at like 750-800ft I think (can’t be far from @DavisStraight as we are only a mile from the Southbridge line)… misty, maybe some drizzle and low clouds kissing the treetops. Very jungle-like, half expect a gorilla to walk out of the woods. Tons of standing water on the dirt road in here and the pond is even over some docks lol. My dad has a crude/simple rain gauge and he thinks he’s at 11-12” in like the last two weeks. One time the 6” gauge was overflowing this week.