Good bye for now.

[Rasper]

I have missed you Jammer.

Richard

[mite5255]

These are the kind of mountains I love seeing everywhere I go. I literally get homesick for them after a couple weeks being without.

WOW Still looks way to cold for this Aussie that has spent most of his life living in a sub-tropical environment , BUT I would love to see that type of scenery one day, even tho I probably would damn near freeze my gonads off

Mike

[F.C.]

The difference here, Mike, is the lack of humidity. Just because you see snow doesn't mean there's a lot of humidity in the air. In order to "feel" cold you need humidity to transfer the temperature to your skin. I have worked on vehicles outside in a tee-shirt and levis wear'n sneakers in -30 temps... sun shining, no wind. Just have to wear gloves to keep your hands from stick'n to metal is all. Yet it's cold enough that when you piss, the stream will freeze in mid air and compile itself into a stack of piss-sicles. You can take a cup of hot coffee and toss the liquid in the air and it will make a roaring sound of hisssss as it freezes instantly and drifts away as an amber ice fog. Yet, moving about doing work (even in a tee-shirt) you don't feel the cold. But, sniff through your nose like you do when your nose is stuffed up, you'll instantly freeze the inside of your nostrels and cause it to bleed, then instantly freeze again. LOL.... 99 and 9/10ths percent of the winters here you cannot make a snowball because the snow is like fine granules of light weight white sand. As the temps warm up from say 20 below, even to as little as 10 degrees F. , you can measure a decrease in snow volume over the course of a few hours time as the snow contracts. Water, when frozen, expands... thus the expansion that creates snowflakes. By the time the temps get to 40 degrees it's damn uncomfortable cold outside due the humidity in the air, plus whatever breeze or wind that's going on. I would much rather deal with 20 below with wind (and no humidity) than 40 degrees with wind and a lot of humidity.

Another awesome effect of severe cold is how "clear" the air is. You can see 500 miles as clear as you can see across the street. One of the first observances people have up here in the winter is their mistaken sense of distance. What may appear to be a few miles away can, in fact, be hundreds of miles. Same in reverse... some terrain up here you get the sense is several miles away yet is within walking distance due the foreshortening effect of some particular spruce trees we have here (basically pine trees) that aren't but 10 to 20 feet tall yet appear at a distance to look like they have to be 100' or more from what most people are used to seeing. I swear, this place is magical... hahaha... I LOVE IT! And what the rest of the world perceives as a once in a life time event seeing an aurora borialis it's our nightly event all winter long. There is a magic to this land that only living here for decades will give insight to. I've been here 49 years and I swear every year I see things, and experience things I've never encountered. The magic never ends. This is truly GOD's Country.

[Jammer]

There is a magic to this land that only living here for decades will give insight to. I've been here 49 years and I swear every year I see things, and experience things I've never encountered. The magic never ends. This is truly GOD's Country.

I don't recall anywhere in the Bible mentionning snow or even much about cold. God created Alaska to visit but I don't think He intended anyone to live there.

Has Dallen been around? He had 105 F all summer and then had a blizzard last week. We've just had some cool rain. Might snow a little this weekend.

[DavidF]

Hey Jammer, getting things back under controll??

[Jammer]

As much as I can. I'm going to start a new thread on our new exploits. There's a guy coming this week to see about building a garage and fixing some other stuff. I just want my stuff out of the storage locker.