IronTy

Just got back from the grocery store so I have the food all stocked up. All that's left is Final Preps.

You're right, I gotta pull it together.

GFS is earlier and wetter it appears. That's gonna stress me out a bit driving out there Friday evening after dark.

Winter storm warning hoisted for Garrett cty. 12-18" on the ridge tops.

Oh man I'm so pumped. It's only Tuesday! I'm leaving from Calvert at about 330pm Friday and am not looking forward to the beltway traffic.

Snow chains confirmed. We're fully locked in here.

You heard it here first back in July. This winter is gonna be rockin'

Time flies. We just started the A-frame this summer so this is actually the first trip out there without a tent. Gonna be nice. No kids, just my wife and she knows what she signed up for, and generally gets excited for camping stuff as well.

Euro is on board for the first week of December storm.

I doubt chains are necessary if you're staying on maintained paved roads but they're relatively cheap and never hurt to have in the back of the car. The only reason I picked mine up is that we have about a mile drive up the side of Meadow Mountain to get access up to our property on the ridge and none of it is maintained. So I want to make sure I can get up to the ridge in the dark Friday night (3k ft elevation). And then back down if necessary on Sunday in a foot+ snow. I got mine from tirechain.com. Prices are reasonable and shipping overnight is fast.

That was Christmas 2022 and I think we were -20F in the tent with wind hills of -43F at one point. This probably won't be quite that epic, plus our A-frame is framed up and insulated, though we only have electric to the meter so I'm just gonna bring an electric space heater to plug in. Thankfully no tents this time.

Just saw that! We are locked in here, snowblower is in the truck and snow chains come tomorrow.

Euro is definitely more muted than the GFS. If I can get my snow fix out of the way before Thanksgiving this year I'll be pretty happy. We'll be at just over 3k ft elevation, hopefully we get mostly snow.

My bad, I was thinking RIC was the TB. Let's go SBY at 21.5".

We're setting the stage for another IronTy play-by-play epic winter outing. Hopefully this one won't be as bad as the -30F Christmas winter campout two years ago.