Northern MN, which is usually good for a few feet each year, got 6" total where I am. This will be the first year we didn't have to plow our road. Most years I am plowing every other day just to keep the drifts clear where the wind from the lake blows across, but not once this year. The truck has not moved except once last week to knock the rust of the disk brakes.
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Winter is coming!!!
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So far, for us here we have had more rain than snow.
We have only had one significant snowfall at our location.
We had several snow events by this time last year.
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Jeff
We have only had one significant snowfall at our location.
We had several snow events by this time last year.
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Jeff
Yeah I was thinking of you when I read the forecast for out there. I think you even beat Buffalo NY for snow !
Last year was epic, these pictures of the bear valley lift shows just how much snowpack there was during the 2023 season.
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Jeff
Holy crap Jeff. We had about 18-24 inches total so far this winter. When we left for Jamaica a week ago we had about 12 inches on the ground. The week we were away we had record temps and heavy rainfall at home. We got home last night and there is no snow left. NOTHING except a little bit left in the deep ditches. We will get a bit more snow yet but at this time of year it won't last long if at all. This winter has delivered the least amount of snow in any that I can remember in my 60 years of living on this planet. We won't talk about all the years I lived on a different one. 
Well "winter" in the high country is just about over.
When Tioga Pass is opened that's the last of it.
Crews have been up there for a few weeks now finding and digging out the road to get it open again.
This is a good shot of two of the snowblowers in action.
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Jeff
When Tioga Pass is opened that's the last of it.
Crews have been up there for a few weeks now finding and digging out the road to get it open again.
This is a good shot of two of the snowblowers in action.
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Jeff
S&W357
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That sure is beautiful but costly I hope the area makes a lot of tourist money to make up for the expense. Just a couple days ago I was reading that I think it was Montana got Blasted with a late May snow storm when everyone is in the Spring Mode. I just turned my Propane vent-free heaters back on to take the chill out. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Tioga road is located in the eastern portion of Yosemite and provides a way to drive through the park’s high country, connecting Yosemite Valley to Highway 395, across Tioga pass at @10000' and is a huge shortcut across the Sierra to Lee Viking and Mono Lake.
Lots of visitors use this in the summer.
It was built in the late 1930s and it is the highest highway pass in California exceeding Donner Pass by a couple thousand feet.
Once opened for the season it is a well traveled road across the Sierra untill winter closes it up again.
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Jeff
Lots of visitors use this in the summer.
It was built in the late 1930s and it is the highest highway pass in California exceeding Donner Pass by a couple thousand feet.
Once opened for the season it is a well traveled road across the Sierra untill winter closes it up again.
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Jeff
Another sign that warm weather is here.
Climbers that are on El Capitan often take multiple days to make the ascent, this picture shows there lights on the wall as they get ready to bed down for the night.
How is this for a overnight camp?
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Jeff
Climbers that are on El Capitan often take multiple days to make the ascent, this picture shows there lights on the wall as they get ready to bed down for the night.
How is this for a overnight camp?
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Jeff
S&W357
$upporting Member KO4RJD....WDX-556
Not for me! What do the folks lower down do if the folks up above them need to…well, you know.
Steph Davis ( She is a world renowned big wall climber)
Puts it like this:
How do you go to the bathroom on the wall?”
For some reason this is always going to be the single most interesting issue about climbing.
My advice is to just relax about taking a leak! It’s the most discreet thing in the world for girls because you crouch down and no one can see anything, from the front. Naturally, the same does not go for REAL bathrooming. (We’ll get into that.) The good news is you’re going to know your new climbing partner a lot better after the trip.
There are two ways you can deal with these issues as a climber. The first is to be all awkward and shy. The second is to grab the bull by the horns and quit worrying about it. I was on the Zodiac once about 15 years ago with two girlfriends, which should have made everything all fine in the bathroom department—except for the fact that there was a party of guys on the route right below us for three days. On the first morning, my friend Kim just hollered down at them, “I have bad news for you guys, or maybe it’s good news I don’t know, but we need to pee!”
Peeing off the portaledge with strangers three pitches down is on my list of most awkward moments ever and fully cured me of “stage fright.” But it’s all part of climbing and life in the real world........
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Jeff
https://www.msrgear.com/blog/steph-davis-answers-going-to-the-bathroom-on-the-wall/
Shadetree Mechanic
Delaware Base Station 808
That is just about the most terrifying thing I can think of LOL! When I was 16 or so I fell 80 feet out of a tree while stringing up a shortwave radio antenna. I now have terrible vertigo (and a bad back). The highest I ever climb is to the first floor roof of the house to clean the woodstove chimney...................
I do however love hiking up mountains. The key word being 'hiking'. I don't want to hang from cliff faces to do it !