Comments on Looking For Detachment: First Snow, 2009

I feel very lucky - so far!

2009-10-06T13:41:04.881-07:00

I feel very lucky - so far!

It's another cool day - cold overnight - the snow ...

2009-10-06T12:15:51.453-07:00

It's another cool day - cold overnight - the snow has melted up to the 9000+ foot elevation on mountains, except some north-facing slopes. Nice and sunny!

ReBecca, amazing the snow passed you by entirely.

Gaelyn, garden is down! (Except for inner leaves of the kale and the chocolate mint, which will survive any temps - I think.)

We have lucked out and not had any snow yet!! Than...

2009-10-05T21:55:09.928-07:00

We have lucked out and not had any snow yet!! Thank goodness! But it is getting colder. I hope it will hold off a few more months here.

So much for the garden huh. It's beautiful to look...

2009-10-05T21:37:20.266-07:00

So much for the garden huh. It's beautiful to look at, from someplace warm.

Lockwood, I got my Bend news from a former Oregoni...

2009-10-05T15:45:39.505-07:00

Lockwood, I got my Bend news from a former Oregonian native now in Alaska: 7 inches! Thanks for the link.

Howard, ours is mostly gone at our elevation (6450...

2009-10-05T15:44:30.063-07:00

Howard, ours is mostly gone at our elevation (6450 feet) - but not gone above 8000 feet and on north-facing slopes. I love winter!

Story from The Bend Bulletin. Apparently an all-t...

2009-10-05T15:42:30.630-07:00

Story from The Bend Bulletin. Apparently an all-time October record.

Looks like you don't gain much advantage by being ...

2009-10-05T15:37:08.170-07:00

Looks like you don't gain much advantage by being a few hundred miles south of my digs. Your first snow coincided exactly with our first snow! Looks like we got a bit less than you did (it's all gone now), though there was a pretty good dump in the mountains, about an hour west of here. Stay warm!

--Howard (Calgary, AB, Canada)

Lost Geologist, ha! This morning it was 21F here, ...

2009-10-05T15:32:13.931-07:00

Lost Geologist, ha! This morning it was 21F here, and it was 20-24C where you are. That's a huge difference!

Lockwood, I hear that Bend - of all places - got a...

2009-10-05T15:30:56.895-07:00

Lockwood, I hear that Bend - of all places - got a ton of snow, but I didn't write down how much.

BBbrrr....cold! Here in France on fieldwork the fo...

2009-10-05T13:51:20.565-07:00

BBbrrr....cold! Here in France on fieldwork the forecast for tomorrow predicts 20 to 24C!

My two nephews (who live near Toronto, Ontario) so...

2009-10-05T12:40:25.327-07:00

My two nephews (who live near Toronto, Ontario) somehow discovered this morning that seven inches of snow fell at Mt. Bachelor yesterday; both wrote e-mails to express how jealous they were. Now I have to write back that I'm near sea level, and Mt. Bachelor is at 6000 feet, on the other side of the Cascades. We had some very light mist yesterday, but I'm sure it amounted to only 0.01-0.02 inches.

Very nice and sunny today; I imagine it'll make it over the mountains to Nevada soon. I'm not sure what I'd think about getting first snow in early October... not much, I'm afraid. But the pictures are very nice. I'm happy to enjoy it from a distance.