River Ice
The river has cleared itself of ice very quickly this year. The same day I snapped this image (March 29th) the Seaway opened for shipping. Around here that’s as good a sign of spring as anyting else.
Migration
The Snow Geese have arrived. The Canada Geese barely leave but when the snow geese fly in with their distinctive sometimes whistling honk winter may finally be showing herself out. The sighting of these guys was usual when I was growing up in the area but their explosion in numbers has apparently shifted their migration …
Snowshoeing in the ADK
Snowshoeing is not new to me let’s call it reintroduced…. So striking out and up an even, a relatively small, mountain may not have been the best way to get back into things. But there I was early on a crisp Saturday morning in late February staring up the side of Mount Jo 877 meter …
Icebergs and Technology
Fall, September 2017 to be exact, I’m on the trip of a lifetime in Iceland nearing the final days and I’m about to reach Jökulsárlón a glacier lagoon that promises up close pictures of icebergs slowly floating to the sea. Challenges – the weather is the worst I seen since arrive in this wondrous country, …
Icefields
Getting ready for the spring trip going over some old photos from two years ago to see where I’d like to check out again. Columbia Ice Fields always on the list. Three reasons. They are stunning. They will disappear in an ever-warming world. They are almost impossible to take a bad photo of. This particular …
Charleston Lake – Tallow Bay Loop Hike
The coldest hike, I think so far, the wind a bit bitter with a cold front moving through that will see the temperatures go from just above freezing at noon to -18 overnight. Ah January, we missed you…. The loop is rated moderate and six months ago I would have argued with that rating… today …
Waiting For Winter
Well not really. It turned cold and the snow came in November, then the strangeness started. We had very little snow and more melt in December and so far in January the same a few centimeters of snow then a day or more of warmth to melt most of it away. As people are fond …
Burning the Planet at Both Ends
A couple of news articles today pointing out or underlining the melt happening at both poles. First from the south… The frozen region of freshwater ice the size of France partially protects the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from collapsing into the sea. In recent years, the ice-free season in the Ross Sea has become a routine event …
Winter Wonderings
After the artificially inflated expectations and stimulation of dopamine in our brains by the holidays we all start to settle back into life as we live it – day by day. This time of year starts the mental wanderings of the next trip (how long until April?) and sights yet unseen for me and results …
A Mountain Called Haystack
October in the Adirondacks. The end of a two week trip for me as I’ve travelled to the East Coast and most of the way home again, with a little stop near Keene Valley to climb a mountain called Haystack. A friend will be completing her final climb to claim membership in a rather exclusive …