I used a pleasant seasonable morning to check out Arunah Hill today just to see how everything was wintering. All is well on the hill.I parked in front of the mailbox, and hiked up the hill on our driveway, four inches of light powder snow on top of a hard and slick foundation. In a phenomenon know to skiers, a sunny sky with a bit of thin overcast somehow dropped steady light snow on the hill the whole time.
The hill was quiet and calm. It looked like someone must have been up on the hill after the first storm of the year, there were tracks from a 4 wheel drive vehicle, filled in by the recent powder. An abandoned attempted snowman lent evidence for someone having winter fun.
After warming hut for a few minutes in the hut and a few calls on the radio, I headed back home, day dreaming of starry spring nights, not too far in the future.
-Ed
