This post contains section links to Conditions and Forecast. Summary Not much to beware for these Ides of March; in terms of weather it's going to have pretty typical winter-to-spring swings in temperature. The weather will actually be pleasant, but if there's a snowpack remaining, it'll be doing a lot of melting. If you can …
Month: March 2021
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COVID lockdown for us continues. A year and a day and counting. At home we still maintain a 6-8 week supply of toilet paper and paper towels, and I make sure I have at least four weeks' worth of the bagged ground coffee I like best (itself a subsitute for the freshly-ground coffee I used …
A crystal globe, an environmentalist, and The New Yorker
It's likely that almost every cross-country skier in the U.S. knows who Jessie Diggins is; many snow sports aficionados know how important winning the World Cup is; but there are a lot more people who are neither athletes nor cross-country skiers but know who Bill McKibben is. And there are plenty of people who don't …
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Ghosting winter
The northeast US may be solidly in springtime weather and mud season cometh, but the High Plains and Rocky Mountains are gearing up for record-breaking snowfall this weekend: https://twitter.com/NWSWPC/status/1370360343306862602?s=20 Tweet from National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center, Mar. 12 2021 This post contains section links to Conditions and Forecast. Summary Warm weather this week has …
Randonnée redux rabbit hole
I thought I'd taken a pretty nerdy trip with last year's post "Pins to pivots and the nightmare of the 90s", but I gladly yield to the world of AT/Randonnée, which assigns a different meaning to the term 'ski touring' than I'm accustomed to. At the site Wildsnow they dedicate a page to retelling the …
Across the Snow Line 