powderfreak

Agreed and that’s what is great about foliage, any rolling topography covered in color is awesome. Your area of NE CT is top tier, always loved going to the lake in the fall, the quiet corner. Fields, hills, rock walls, barns, foliage.

I’ll say it is certainly increasing and foliage traffic seems to be getting worse and worse. Last weekend and this weekend are Stowe’s busiest of the entire year. Like driving from Exit 10 in Waterbury to Stowe and the general area is almost impossible these weekends. It jacks up even on I-89 just to get off the exits. The Whites and I-93 seem similar from what I’ve seen. People go nuts for it… but there are colorful leaves everywhere. It is interesting to me that there are tons of NNE towns and roads with great foliage, but the people just keep pouring into the same areas. All that said, the mountain vistas are hard to beat with peak foliage. It can seem almost like a religious experience when timed right.

Yeah I think it’s a fine foliage weekend with the 3-day weekend… there’s plenty of great foliage in New England, you just gotta go to the right places. I know the Lake Placid, Stowe/Mad River Valley and Bretton Woods/MWN/Mt Washington Hotel and neighboring notches are often blasted with social media starting like 2-3 weeks ago. By the time folks see those photos it’s time to go like the next day, not in a couple weeks. I agree there’s a lag there that throws people off. If I was going this time of year maybe the Maine coast to like northern SNE or southern CNE (however you want to call it) would be the latitude band most likely to be peaking. Though to be honest, I have no idea how it is in Lakes Region and Monadnocks over to Berkshires right now. But if you are seeing good pics from a place two weeks before this weekend, it’s too late by now.

It’s the same every year. The holiday weekend is always too late. Dont get me wrong, there’s still color in the valleys but even the mountain valleys look like 50% sticks mixed with the left over oranges. Mountains have that past peak burnt orange look, still something but no where near the fire reds, yellows mixed with green from two weeks ago.

It’s felt chilly today despite low-50s. Something felt different, crisp chill in the shade. Then I saw dews are in the 20s and I wonder if that’s it. Think this is the first afternoon with dew points in the 20s up here this season.

It never fails. Past peak but peak traffic.

Oh 100%. It is what it is. We are lucky and can afford it, it’s just more than I’d like.

I’m so screwed this winter. Heat is needed almost every morning at this point even with a 62-63 set point.

31F with solid frost again. This weather on the holiday weekend, going to be a gong-show in the leaf peeping spots.

That was us last week, ha. Evaporational cooling is awesome.

That’s the next priority, as much as the wife thinks buying new furniture is, ha.

Passing showers today.

Sorry for not responding earlier dude. My wife and I made some moves this summer and we were at 750ft in Stowe Village... but we finally cashed in on the location, sold our townhome/condo for 4 times what we paid for it back in 2012 and rolled that equity into a house about 10 minutes outside the village. We were ready to leave the village. We are now only 10 minutes away in a neighboring valley at 1,100ft tucked in closer to the Spine. With higher terrain on three sides of us, we seem to radiate quite well (multiple frosts so far), but I will say the daytime temps don't seem to get up nearly as much as the larger valley from the Village out towards the ASOS. We'll see how the winter goes, but I'm interested to see what the differences are compared to over in the village.

At least someone is getting some damage these days.

Jealous, heat’s been on a few times now.