Snow

[slowp]

I tried to get up to a bough sale today. Busted through a couple of places and almost got stuck. I tried to go through this but the Ford wanted to slip sideways. The photo doesn't look as steep or supered as the curve is. This is at 3500 feet elevation. So, I went to plan B and worked on brushing the road. It got very warm today and I found myself putting snow between my collar and back of neck to keep cooler. A strange start for Summer.

And I'm home puppy sitting while the "parents" are out of town for the night. It is a wild and dangerous little beastie!

 

[RCR 3 EVER]

Weird weather

One weekend while planting thousands of pines on property in Northern MI during late April, we were swatting no see ums out of our eyes in the am before it turned to a cold rain. During the evening and night we got 4" of snow. The next morning we had to dig through the snow to plant the trees, but by afternoon we were complaining about the wet sand, bugs,mosquitoes and heat.
That sure is nice looking puppy, it is sometimes a blessing when they get to tired to play and actually sleep for a few minutes at a time. It is probably dreaming of chasing that tennis ball though.

 

[Humptulips]

We got snowed out one time in june for a couple days up on Higley Peak and another time I worked one of the most miserable weeks of half rain and half snow on the divide between the Skokomish and the Wynooche. Last week of August, elevation 6200'. If you count slogging around in melting snow in july while sweating profusely I've worked in snow every month of the year.
Oh, if I had only had Al Gore setting chokers for me during those times!LOL

 

[slowp]

Yes, I've been snowed on every month. Went up yesterday and that patch was gone but there was another one. I'm almost to the summit. Broke through another spot elsewhere so a crew can get in, and made it to the last unit logged last winter only to have more snow so I couldn't get up to those units, which they plan to start next month. I don't think the high country will open up this year.

 

[bigbadbob]

I was trying to get to one of my favorite trails (Wells Lk to Lodestone Lk) on my ATV yesterday, 5880 ft.
Too much snow, and we normally go May 24 weekend.
Good to see the moisture, a few less fires, maybe.

 

[slowp]

Trees are finally hitting the ground this week. The guy who cut the bad danger tree in the campground got his sale started. He is above a closed gate on the road that goes over the hill to Cougar. As we go in and out the gate, there are tourists who did not see the 3 signs stating road and viewpoint are closed.

I'm brushing and cutting blowdown out of a bad road that will get me and probably the loggers close to several helicopter units. That side of the valley is pretty snow free but the other seems to be just stagnant. I didn't get any farther up it than last week.

I also remembered that people said it would be a hard winter because the trees were loaded with cones last fall. That turned out to be true.

Maybe I should get the skis back out?

 

[2dogs]

Snow? I know I have heard that word before. Just can't remember when. I do know the words hot, dry, smokey, fire, disaster. Also ladder fuels, crown fire, dozer line, handcrew. Snow, I will have to look that one up.

 

[ClimbinArbor]

2dogs. i think they are talking about frozen sweat. its a rare phenomenom known to occur during the blazing heat. its where your sweating so profoundly that the sweat forms ice crystals it falls so fast. atleast thats the only way we's have snow here in JUNE! lol

slowp that looks like one hellraiser canine you got bundled up there.....

 

[secureland]

Yellow lab?

 

[gink595]

Thats crazy snow in late June, I made that mistake once, I rode to Wyoming to Yellowstone in late July years back, well I really didn't expect to see snow I went up on the Bear tooth pass in north Yellowstone to about 11,000', snow all around me. I froze my butt off the first town I came to where I could get some warmer clothes I did I think it was Silver City,MT. What a learning experience that was.

 

[ClimbinArbor]

Yellow lab?

looks like

 

[Bushler]

Gink, I did Yellowstone on a bike too. Awesome ride. We didn't get snow, but the thunderstorm/rain on the west side of the G.Tetons was an experience.

I was wondering if any of you wood butchers rode.

Suzuki Hayabusa
Suzuki GSXR 1K w/turbo
Buell S-3 Thunderbolt
Honda CRF450
Honda GoldWing

 

[Gologit]

Snow? I know I have heard that word before. Just can't remember when. I do know the words hot, dry, smokey, fire, disaster. Also ladder fuels, crown fire, dozer line, handcrew. Snow, I will have to look that one up.

Yup...check it out and get back to me. Snow? Nah...don't remember any.

 

[slowp]

Well, even after a record setting weekend, high temperature wise, I couldn't get from here to there because of the road glaciers. The one on the Randle to Cougar road has retreated a mile in a week. One road I drove on today was blocked about a quarter mile farther up than a week ago. On another quest to check the conditions of a bough sale road, I lost patience and rammed the Bubba pickup through...took about 6 attempts--cut out 2 blowdowns and was stopped about a mile short. Too steep of a dropoff for comfortable ramming technique. Then tried to take the alternate way out and was blocked by what looked to be an avalanche that needs to melt. I wish I had camped up there as it is too hot down here in da valley. We have smoke drifted in from somewhere. I have to get up early early so I can go check/annoy cutters before it is too hot.

 

[gink595]

Gink, I did Yellowstone on a bike too. Awesome ride. We didn't get snow, but the thunderstorm/rain on the west side of the G.Tetons was an experience.

I was wondering if any of you wood butchers rode.

Suzuki Hayabusa
Suzuki GSXR 1K w/turbo
Buell S-3 Thunderbolt
Honda CRF450
Honda GoldWing

I seen a lot of rain too, The last day I was there we rode to Old Faithful and watched that, after that it started to look dark and we still had to ride to Thermopolis that day, by the time we made it to Fishing Bridge it was a total washout, On a R1, no rain gear nothing warm, couldn't see much, it sucked by the time I made it out of the park I swear my body was going to go into convulsions shaking I was so cold, I tucked down and was hauling the mail and passed a state trooper doing triple digits, He just flashed his lights and kept going, I think he understood! we made the trip, 53mi in 32 min back into Cody, got a motel room and went to walmart and bought new DRY clothes. Never again my cheap butt will buy a good rainsuit if I ever do that again!

 

[Bushler]

Mill Creek. We pack full camp with us.

Catch and release...

 

[2dogs]

Mill Creek. We pack full camp with us.

Catch and release...

Oooo! Any leftovers?