I just got back from Ottawa, Canada. The snow in some places is still four to five feet high (no doubt helped by snowplows). Our van driver said it melts off by July. I'm not sure if he was kidding or not.
I remember being on a Scout 50-miler at Lassen Volcanic National Park in July and camping one night in snow. Did I mention it was July? No one was prepared. Now granted, it wasn't fresh snow, but it was deep and cold. So what did we do? What any 14-year-olds would--we had a huge snow fight. No gloves, of course.
The other night while it was raining in Atlanta I took off and while climbing to altitude looked outside and saw snow. It evidently turned to rain as it fell lower, but I had never seen that before--snow up high and rain at ground level. And going 250 knots per hour, you get that "hyperspace" effect.
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I just got back from Ottawa, Canada. The snow in some places is still four to five feet high (no doubt helped by snowplows). Our van driver said it melts off by July. I'm not sure if he was kidding or not.
I remember being on a Scout 50-miler at Lassen Volcanic National Park in July and camping one night in snow. Did I mention it was July? No one was prepared. Now granted, it wasn't fresh snow, but it was deep and cold. So what did we do? What any 14-year-olds would--we had a huge snow fight. No gloves, of course.
The other night while it was raining in Atlanta I took off and while climbing to altitude looked outside and saw snow. It evidently turned to rain as it fell lower, but I had never seen that before--snow up high and rain at ground level. And going 250 knots per hour, you get that "hyperspace" effect.
PJ
"hyperspace effect" Wow, so cool! (literally ;) )
No there's not. There's never enough snow.
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