Da April blizzard

[redneckdan]

Tuesday afternoon we had bare dirt and budding flowers, yesterday morning I woke up to this.

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w180/jlndmhwedding/IMGP1694.jpg

I got a pair of ski skins and it took me an hour and a half to summit mont ripley, a 300ft climb.

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w180/jlndmhwedding/IMGP1697.jpg

On the way down there were drifts that went up to my chest. I love da UP.

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w180/jlndmhwedding/IMGP1700.jpg

[4060MAY]

so yadodaup ehh

[MT Gianni]

The rest of the kids learned April showers bring May flowers. In MT and ID we learned April blizzards will freeze your gizzards. Gianni.

[Lloyd Smale]

we got it here too pal but i dont love it as much as you!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mainiac]

you mid-westerners neednt feel left out!!! From bare ground to 15 inches in a half a day! Like to get ol Al Gore up here to shovel my yard!!!

[dk17hmr]

We didnt have near that much down here, about 1" when I left for work this morning, by 3:00 when I left and headed back to campus for class we didnt have any left on the ground.

I actually put my truck in 4x4 because of the ice at intersections, I couldnt move, 4x4 got me going again though. But when I left roads were clean and no snow.

Gotta love the way MI has weather mood swings. Earlier this week my room mate and some friends played basketball in the park wearing shorts.

[robertbank]

Last week we went from bare ground to 40cm of snow in two days. Wet rainy snow. Next week I'll be trying out the boat!:mrgreen: Raining right now.

Take Care

Bob

[sundog]

Well, Robert, whatever that was you unleased up there in the north country has prompted snow warning for northern Oklahoma this evening (freezing rain south of Tulsa right now) and the next few nights below freezing even south of Tulsa.

...and I thought spring was here. I'll be out mowing in my overcoat! sundog

[ktw]

Gotta love the way MI has weather mood swings.

There is a pond across the highway from my office here in Alberta. The MTU students placed four fish structure cribs out on the ice a couple of weeks ago. Those of us here in town had a pool on when they broke through. The pool closed last week friday. Most of us guessed mid to late April.

All the cribs when through last Saturday and Sunday. By late Tuesday the pond was completely froze over again. :roll:

The bad thing was not a snowstorm in early April. It was the two weeks of really nice spring weather right before it. A guy could get used to that after a long winter.

-ktw

[DLCTEX]

I thought Spring was here to stay, planted some tomatoes. They are in tall cages wrapped in plastic and now wearing garbage bag caps. Weatherman says snow coming, well, I've still got plants in the greenhouse just in case, but peaches apples and cherries as well as wild plums have bloomed. Jams and jellies may be hard to come by this year. Dale

[Ricochet]

I sure wish y'all would keep all that cold air up in your frozen Northern wastelands! I just came back from a long walk around the neighborhood, and it's gotten plumb chilly. Must be down in the mid 30s. The stars sure are twinkling brightly.

[redneckdan]

I summited ripley at 1am this mornin fer a little ski adventure, I'll post pictures once I can form a coherent thought, 5 hours of sleep sounded okay when I went to bed...but not any more.:roll:

[robertbank]

Going to close to 50F today. Just basking in the warm Pacific air. (Also watching 15" of heavy wet snow turn to water). Been a long wet winter up here fellows but I promise you we will send some nice warm air down your way this week.:mrgreen:

Take Care

Bob

[redneckdan]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo........................ .........

[redneckdan]

Changing from ascent to descent.
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w180/jlndmhwedding/IMGP1707.jpg

Da city
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w180/jlndmhwedding/IMGP1710.jpg

Let the legs recover from the climb
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w180/jlndmhwedding/IMGP1712.jpg

Keepin it real

me
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w180/jlndmhwedding/IMGP1711.jpg

howie
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w180/jlndmhwedding/IMGP1721.jpg

[robertbank]

Now how can you complain about a little snow and cooler weather after an outing like that?:mrgreen:

Take Care

Bob

ps Just pulling your chain..... Robert Service had it right when he wrote: "The Ballad of Sam Magee"!

[redneckdan]

um....its still snowing.:drinks:

[Ricochet]

We came out of a movie last night and found it had snowed, just enough to make a bit of a mess. There was a dusting on the ground this morning, and it's flurried all day. I wish it'd warm back up!

[robertbank]

Jeez guys I feel guilty....it is 50F here and raining. Yea right!

Take Care

Bob

[Bigscot]

Down here in middle N.C. we woke up to a dusting of snow on the ground.

Eighteen years ago tomorrow, 4/8, we were married. Was supposed to be an outside wedding but rained all day. Ended up pulling people out of the mud that night... in my wedding dress (kilt) which cost more that my wife's dress. We went to Atlantic Beach (N. C.) for our honeymoon and it snowed down there.

Crazy spring weather.

Bigscot

[Powderpacker]

Would that be da city of Houghton ? Or would that be the city of Hancock ? Or would that be the greater Houghton/Hancock metropolis ?

[redneckdan]

I live in houghton, but the whole north shore is gettin hammered.

[Powderpacker]

Dan -
I was inquiring about the picture you labeled "Da city" . Great pictures, by the way !
Ted

[ovendoctor]

gotta be houghton,rippley is east of handcock on the same side of the canal


:castmine:

[ktw]

Yellow arrow is roughly the angle of the view in Dan's photo.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g232/ktwna/h-h.jpg

[Powderpacker]

That's more like a 'terrific map trick' ! Great picture ! And it answers my question 110% . Thank you .
Ted

[qajaq59]

Chest high drifts?

Ahhhh, that's nothing. Here in Florida it got down to 72 degrees and we all froze solid. [smilie=1: