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NH will monitor skiers for Coronavirus symptoms like "runny nose".  

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/09/23/new-hampshire-ski-resorts-winter-coronavirus-guidelines-rules/amp/

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

So cool

1 hour ago, Dan76 said:

6-10'' east of CRV 

RIP to Toots Hibbert, a frequent visitor to Northampton in the late 90s and early 2000s back when there was a great local reggae scene.  Guy was a legend. 

gondy is running at Killington too for mtn biking. 

KMart superthread?

Hiked KMart today and mask usage on trail might have been 10%.  

And really that was 10% higher than it needed to be.

On the whole though I agree with PFs and PBs sentiment.  It'll be a full calendar year plus of having to roll with the punches, just gotta deal with what comes and appreciate whatever opportunities you have to be out in the snow.   We're all in on uphill, lift served we're treating as bonus.

Hell the science says that porous, stretchy fabrics (common to gaiters) actually increase transmission.  And most actual ski masks literally have holes.

I also disagree that most wear them.  Maybe on the coldest days but not on the majority of days.  Imagine skinning with a mask?  LOL

11 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

It's like the beaches. There was never any rational explanation for the concern over beaches, but, for whatever reason, people focused in on them as a major nexus of COVID spread. It never made much sense.

I'd say the beaches are about 50/50 masks during schlep down but I've not experienced dirty looks because I think deep down folks know it's dumb. 

To be fair packed beaches occurred much earlier on with more uncertainty.  These days we have a whole summer sample size of minimal outdoor transmission to draw on.  If there's a mask requirement on the hill it's purely for the optics.

I'd like to see the science behind a mask requirement on the hill.

On 8/27/2020 at 8:30 AM, backedgeapproaching said:

I was out in Breckenridge about 15 years ago and did the Pikes Peak drive in NOV.  Roads were somewhat snow packed and my friend was driving like a poor man's Pastrana....in a VW Passatt. Just remember holding the door handle so hard thought I was going to rip it out. He kept saying, "Its fine, I have brand new snow tires."  Ha

The road over Independence Pass into Aspen is pretty sweet too.  Did it before game 3 of the 2007 WS against the Rockies only a few days before it closed for the season.  Very snowy at the 12k' sign.  Near the top the road goes to basically 1 lane with no guard rail.  It's awesome.

Reports of damage and power outages in Granby/Btown on NWS Chat

Cue Troy Brown... "Bingo!"

Front edge kind of bowing out a little coming through this area.  Got some heavy rain, briefly.  Beard's hill might have had a decent gust.

would be better if it were a cactus behind him

2 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Rain was so intense we had to get off 495 in Milford and go hit five guys burgers.  Constant cloud to ground lightning while driving South. 
we left Greenfield at 4 PM and had not gotten a drop of rain today.

1 hour ago, Cyclone-68 said:

A drive along the pike would be a lot of fun about now 

Just got home from the cape... Pouring the length of the pike, crazy lightning.  Then all sorts of trees and branches and wires down through Palmer and S Belchertown.  Roads closed had to detour several times.  SILs in Ware no power and damage.  Not quite as bad here by Quabbin however.  Will have to review the radar data.

Been an active couple months here.

9/11/13 is right up there with 7/22/11 IMO

1 minute ago, powderfreak said:

Nice double rainbow after the rain... 

Sweet pic.  Been a good rainbow year.

Back healed?

As usual Btown getting its daily downpour

9 minutes ago, Angus said:

Have a friend who just bought a place out there. You have a place there?

Would be nice but no.  Some fam has been renting the same place every August for 30+ years.  Great spot to relax, definitely on the quiet side at night.  The lake speaks for itself of course, fishing/boating/swimming, and there are lots of sandy public beach areas facing all directions.  On any given day you might rather be on one side or another.   Definitely worth visiting, minor deduction for being inaccessible after 10/31.

Frye Island is extremely dusty right now... A lap around the island gives you a thin layer of silt all over the car and the roadside vegetation is covered in a powdery coating.

All the same, it turned into a pretty nice evening.  Sun mostly out by about 230 and warmed up to mid 70s.  Water about that too.

30 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

One formed about a quarter mile from here lol

One cell after another back built.  Heavy rain and thunder 

2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

You made that comment when all modeling was south then said you were joking.  Any tropical system to our west is dry thats just normal

Anyone know if 38 was rainy east of the center?  Being more purely tropical I'd suspect it might have been.  Most of these transitioning tropical storms have rainfall shift west as baroclinic processes take precedence, usually with an incoming trough.

Two days worth of battery is a lot.  They often take up like half of the collocated equipment shed.  But many if not most cell tower sites do have gennys I think.

Just now, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Fresh Heady and Focal Banger all over Greenfield today!!!
VT sales must be slow lol! 

That's what Vermonters call humanitarian aid