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T.R. Bauer":imbs9w5u said:
Hunkydory":imbs9w5u said:
T.R.

Don't doubt at all your needed use of 4-wheel drive up there in the frozen north, cause due to Wyomings elevation I believe it has almost the exact climate as your local area. :wink

Jay
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Jay,

I have sure have enjoyed your postings over the years. If you are ever in SC AK come on over and I will show you a couple halibut spots on the North Gulf Coast. Some spots out there are crazy. I have caught countless fish on the way DOWN to get to the bottom. While the winter is long and ruthless up here, summer is just so awesome it erases all the memories of being miserable. I know you know. There just isn't any place like it in a long shot. It is time to get serious about winter kings......Have a wonderful holiday!

T. Bauer
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Thanks T.Bauer, and I do know at least a little about the summers. There's been many times I've regretted not moving to Alaska when we made our move here. Will have to be content now with just enjoying your wonderful summers, these winters here are hard enough for me to endure now. I think the worst part of dealing with winter up there would be your short daylight hours. After we retire would like to join an Alaska gathering on the PWS, believe it would be an extra special Gathering and so hopefully we will meet up someday.

Jay
 
Back home...sure enough there is a fair bit of snow. All the roads on Mercer Island are still covered in snow, and some parts of the interstates had some snow. But the driving isn't all that bad. I drove around a bit, including up and down some very steep driveways, and never had a problem. Tomorrow it is time to find some good powder skiing!
 
Jay said:
"The interstate from Pendleton over the Blue Mountains to La Grande was closed for several hours and then when finally opened required chains for about 55 miles even with the pickups all wheel drive. Much of Idaho into Wyoming we kept it in all wheel drive and there was many wrecks along the way."
Jay, congrats on the new camper. I know that road well too. I drove from Boise to Logan, UT every week for 8 years, and then from Portland, OR for another 4, and through in several trips from there clear to Ft Smith Arkansas, each season. Loved the drive, but never a dull moment.

Travel safe friends,
and
Merry Christmas,

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
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What kind of camper (brand, size, ect) did you get anyway? In 2004 I bought an Eagle Cap camper. It has been great. However, like a dummy, my wife convinced me to get the biggest one they have since we have a dually. Yet, she was right as I have really enjoyed the extra space. The down side: it is a little on the heavy side (5000 plus pounds). Nothing like having a camper and nice boat like a CD 22 at the RV parks. Even the guys in the 40 foot motorhomes get a little jeleous when we launch the boat in Homer, Seward, or Valdez. Glad you made it home safely!
 
Even with the advantages of extra room in those max campers didn't want quite that much weight even with the dually, so found a used 2006 Eagle Cap 950 in great shape for the right price that was set up exactly like we would have ordered one new. We can still pull the C-Dory or equivalent trailer with the present hitch and a two foot extension, so saved the additional cost of a $1000 super hitch. This camper has every option that Eagle Cap offered at the time except a generator and we already have the Honda 2000. Only time will tell if bigger might have been better for us. At the present couldn't be more happy with what we brought home.

Compared to living out of the 22 foot C-Dory or our old 4 wheel Keystone pop up or for that matter a tent it seems pretty darn luxurious.

I apologize to Steve for getting so far off topic but we C-Brats do have a habit of wandering.

Hoping for a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all,

Jay
 
Good morning and a Merry Christmas to all. It's a balmy -23F here in Quesnel,BC this morning . Like a lot of you we have been watching the news from Vancouver and Victoria with much amusement. It's amazing what a little snow and cold can do when you're not equiped or prepared for it.

All the Season's Best.

Glen Brocke
 
There are a lot of paper industry equipment manufacturers in Wisconsin and consequently a lot of vendors from the deep freeze area at our mill here in balmy Oregon. They make the same joking comments about us ice sissys right up until they try to drive on it.

Furthermore, there have been some and will be more deaths related to the weather this winter as every winter, and those poor folks are just as dead as the ones in the real winter areas.

Those who live in ice houses shouldn't throw snowballs.
 
geebee2":122jeg7s said:
Good morning and a Merry Christmas to all. It's a balmy -23F here in Quesnel,BC this morning . Like a lot of you we have been watching the news from Vancouver and Victoria with much amusement. It's amazing what a little snow and cold can do when you're not equiped or prepared for it.

All the Season's Best.

Glen Brocke
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Glen, that doesn't sound balmy to me. BRRRR!

What do you know about power boats in the Bowron's? I've always wanted to canoe that loop, but haven't made it yet. Now that I am in my dotage, maybe the CDory would be more appropriate.

Steve
 
A week ago we were swimming in salt water - VERY salt water - nice and warm - in the Dead Sea. Now back in the snow of Colorado - variety surely IS the spice of life, and we enjoy each of the seasons (and places)for their own special reasons
 
Even though we don't live in the frozen wastelands, here is proof positive of the extreme weather and fierce animals we nevertheless face.

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Mike,

That just ain't right! :cry:

I recall seeing some kind of palm tree in Ganges... made me homesick. Ours don't do well with the cold. Hope yours don't have to endure that too long.

Stay warm,
Jim
 
Devastation? Yeah, we got devastation. The Magnolia tree branches could not bear up under the weight of the ice and they just snapped. I'll be a good twenty minutes cleaning up that mess.

:note :note I don't care if it rains or freezes... :note :note

And neither does the weatherman. It has been bouncing between 31º and 33º all day and evening. Rains for a while, snows for a while. We'll either have a bunch of water and mud in the morning or a slippery, crunchy mess. Either way, the Magnolia will recover.

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I'm just upstream from Mike a bit, here in Astoria ... a buddy photoshopped a couple icebergs into a good snow-shot looking downriver towards the big bridge across the Columbia. Really had me for a minute ... I though the images were snow-covered freighters, moored off the East End Basin!

Our palm tree got blasted, also. I'm ready for this stuff to quit. Chained up for four days, now, just to get around town ... in Astoria????!!!
 
Stop the presses. News Alert!!!

Lying Leon, the weather forecaster has changed the title from "ARCTIC BLAST" to "SNOWZILLA" .

Seriously, they are calling this the worst northwest winter snow since 1968.

Steve
 
That was fun. I do believe today was the first time in my life I ever snowplowed. Didn't need to do it. Looked like a dork doing it. The neighbors think I'm crazy. But I fired up the John D and snowplowed the driveway. Had to do it now because it will be gone before too long. Gone except that big pile at the corner of the yard.

The boy called from Portland. It seems the City of Gresham can't get their road equipment out of wherever they keep it and somebody declared it an emergency area. Weird. If it wasn't a hundred miles away I would take the tractor and help them out.

Both roads between the coast and Portland are/were closed because of power lines and trees brought down by ice. It might not be as cold as the real ice in the real winter areas, but it's just as heavy I guess.
 
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