Since our return, the weather has been unusual here too - 11 clear days with N or NW wind, approaching 20 mph most days, with the thermometer struggling to reach 30F during the day and plunging down around 0F several nights. Don't ever recall that many consecutive days without a wind shift before.
The one calm, sunny, warmish day, before the clouds appeared last Tuesday, we hiked on the Butler Lodge trail on Mt Mansfield where the snow pack was over 3', much of it from the last nor'easter. While the trail was packed and our micro spikes worked fine going up, there were numerous 'post holes' on the trail, some thigh deep, making us regret having left our snow shoes in the car on the way down. Luckily, the sun had warmed things enough to soften the snow a bit, and the hike down wasn't as bad as we expected.
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| Hike on Mt. Mansfield on the way to Butler Lodge |
That's All for now.
