IronTy

My home totals: 1. Calvert = 0 2. DC = 0 3. Swanton = 18" (11/22)

Is that Jesus in the pic? Biblical storm? Nice corona.

Tried to go snowshoeing but apparently the rubber straps on our shoes finally got brittle and cracked after 15yrs so had to just hike instead. Misty and foggy at times at 35F. Tested out the snowblower and all appears to be working. Going to head into Oakland now to Firefly farms cheese shop. Sent from my Pixel 8 Pro using Tapatalk

First look outside this morning, right at freezing and flurries on and off. Luckily the wind has died down. We def got at least a foot but the ground was so warm that the bottom layers have melted a bit so it's hard to tell exactly how much. Going to use it as an excuse to try the snowblower out after breakfast. Sent from my Pixel 8 Pro using Tapatalk

We are at the cabin! Most harrowing part of the journey was driving on highways 42 and 55 in nighttime whiteout conditions with snow-covered roads. Once I got off road and engaged the diff locks we were good with the snow. Snowing pretty hard up here and obv very windy. We have about 8" on the ground right now so far. I don't have any lights other than headlamps so we'll survey things and report back in the morning at daylight. Plan on going snowshoeing after breakfast. Sent from my Pixel 8 Pro using Tapatalk

Builder just called me and said they had about 4" on the ground now up on top of the mountain. Even better...they commissioned the HVAC this morning so I'm gonna have HEAT!!! Camping in the lap of luxury. Gotta fill up the gas cans and leave downtown DC in about 90mins.

Snow in Bloomingdale!

Just arrived at our house in DC. Truck is all packed to depart from here tomorrow afternoon for the trek westward. Chilly and windy in DC. I did realize I forgot my bow saw to deal with any possible windfall on the drive up the mountain. Hopefully it won't be needed. Last time up there during the hurricane remnants I had to cut my way back down off the mountain due to 4 fallen trees.

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.

I'm going big, I got a good feeling about this winter DCA: 19.5 BWI: 39.5 IAD: 43.5 RIC: 13.5 (proximity to short pump possible upside notwithstanding)

He died like 5mo ago...his opinion doesn't count.