Fozz Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 At this rate I might have to head south towards Newport for the best colors on Columbus Day weekend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 2 hours ago, Fozz said: At this rate I might have to head south towards Newport for the best colors on Columbus Day weekend. That's sad, dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 50%+ leaf drop after yesterday's howler, though that's augmented by the large component of white ash, all of which are sticks. Can't recall another fall with this much drop by Oct. 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Valley Snowman Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Still plenty of leaves left here as we avoided the heaviest rain and worst winds. I'm thinking Columbus day October 10-12 may end up being peak this year around here whereas in a normal year we are more like October 18- 20. I feel as though the warm-up may have helped to decelerate the process a bit here, after color started to pop rapidly when we had our first frost and freeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Peaked here last weekend, about 2 weeks earlier than normal. It IS kinda sad. I feel bad for the folks who booked Columbus Day weekend. It might as well be November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Suddenly rather dull here. Reminds me of “peak” in Baltimore area to be honest... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 10 minutes ago, PhineasC said: Suddenly rather dull here. Reminds me of “peak” in Baltimore area to be honest... Now you know why it’s called stick season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 18 minutes ago, mreaves said: Now you know why it’s called stick season. Yep, I can see that. Hope the snow starts soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 4 hours ago, alex said: Sad I see a log and a dog. Glad I got up there last weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 On 9/30/2020 at 9:27 PM, PhineasC said: That's sad, dude. I saw the colors last year in the Whites, so it's not the end of the world. I have visitors coming up in a week so that's the only reason I cared (and their timing was unrelated to fall colors). But they're not super invested because they aren't weenies, and they'd be just fine staying local. The Blackstone valley has some nice views for fall colors and I'm thinking we'll be near peak. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 On 10/1/2020 at 4:51 PM, MarkO said: Peaked here last weekend, about 2 weeks earlier than normal. It IS kinda sad. I feel bad for the folks who booked Columbus Day weekend. It might as well be November. Columbus Day weekend often seems to late... I always tell people early October... but also on Columbus Day even if people miss peak they are often seeing what we are seeing now. Still some color, not great, lots of leaf drop and only oranges left really... but its still something for them to look at. By Columbus Day this year it literally will be completely gone, November essentially like you said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Past peak but still color. It's just more uniform orange with less intensity, and leaf drop mixed in... still some random light green too. The vibrant reds are long gone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 A decent crowd of leaf watchers out in the Northern Whites today. Some minor traffic in and out of Gorham. Mostly Massholes with some CT and RI mixed in. Huge backup to get on the dreaded Mt. Washington Auto Road. Bunch of crazies, if you ask me. LOL They missed peak color. Last weekend was way better than this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Valley Snowman Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Color is moderate here. Not very uniform change. Early turning maple trees and swampy areas are going a bit past with the but still a decent amount of turning or green foliage as well depending on the species and location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 I've never even been on the Kanc, but always here stories about the backups around peak foliage..no chance I would go near that on a weekend in early Oct.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 19 minutes ago, backedgeapproaching said: I've never even been on the Kanc, but always here stories about the backups around peak foliage..no chance I would go near that on a weekend in early Oct.. Definitely worth the drive in the off season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 21 hours ago, PhineasC said: A decent crowd of leaf watchers out in the Northern Whites today. Some minor traffic in and out of Gorham. Mostly Massholes with some CT and RI mixed in. Huge backup to get on the dreaded Mt. Washington Auto Road. Bunch of crazies, if you ask me. LOL They missed peak color. Last weekend was way better than this weekend. lol, same thing over this way. This looks like a real relaxing way to enjoy the mountains. Everyone leaves the city and then comes to wait in traffic on the Auto Roads, the Kang, RT 100 here, etc. The city traffic comes to the mountains. And they missed the foliage by like a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Just now, mreaves said: Definitely worth the drive in the off season. I've only done it once, but it was awesome even in the summer. Such a cool road. I also am trying to find the photo, but I saw a drone image of the Kang today that looked like several miles of just bumper to bumper in both directions. A sea of red brake lights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Valley Snowman Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Foliage was pretty garbage on my ride down to sw ct today. Brown and green were the primary colors. Definitely waiting for the 2nd wave of color after a nice burst about a week ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 9 hours ago, backedgeapproaching said: I've never even been on the Kanc, but always here stories about the backups around peak foliage..no chance I would go near that on a weekend in early Oct.. We tried it and turned around. We even went past exit 32, took 33, and went back south to take 32 south to avoid the backup on the off ramp going north. It was about an hour to get to Loon and then 90 mins to get to the point where we turned around just shy of the hairpin. Total waste of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 11 hours ago, backedgeapproaching said: I've never even been on the Kanc, but always here stories about the backups around peak foliage..no chance I would go near that on a weekend in early Oct.. About 30 years ago when we lived in Gardiner, we were headed to my dad's place in Woodsville, NH on the Saturday of the holiday weekend and as usual we rode the Kanc westbound and would drive HIE-Gorham-Bethel coming home. Many vehicles but no issues until we were about 1/2 mile west of the hairpin. From there it was 2 hours (4-6 PM) to get the 7 miles into Lincoln. The first hour we played leapfrog with 3 college-age ladies who were on foot, then "sped" past them at 5 mph. We had no set time to get to dad's, it was in the 70s and colors were late that year and still beautiful, so we put the 5-speed Cavalier in neutral, opened the windows and coasted. Never saw any particular cause for the jam, but maybe the Loon leafpeeper lift had closed and traffic out of that place overloaded the highway. No such issues thru Kinsman's Notch, which was just as pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 37 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said: Kearsarge North Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Was going to take a ride to Greylock with my wife Sat and have lunch, hope it isn't too busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 17 hours ago, powderfreak said: lol, same thing over this way. This looks like a real relaxing way to enjoy the mountains. Everyone leaves the city and then comes to wait in traffic on the Auto Roads, the Kang, RT 100 here, etc. The city traffic comes to the mountains. And they missed the foliage by like a week. Was up at the camp this weekend....its weird. The foliage is definitely gone by, but there's still a lot of green mixed in. It's like the drought made half the tree's stressed so they turned early, but the other half that aren't stressed are going about like normal. Never seen it like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 5 minutes ago, Whineminster said: Was up at the camp this weekend....its weird. The foliage is definitely gone by, but there's still a lot of green mixed in. It's like the drought made half the tree's stressed so they turned early, but the other half that aren't stressed are going about like normal. Never seen it like that. I noticed something I thought was weird related to that. I cut down a few healthy-looking trees with leaves on them in August, and within an hour or two of coming down their leaves had shriveled up and looked like totally dry crap. As if they were barely alive before and as soon as the tree fell they all died immediately. I don't recall ever seeing that happen after felling a healthy tree down south. Maybe not drought related, but it was strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 1 hour ago, Whineminster said: Was up at the camp this weekend....its weird. The foliage is definitely gone by, but there's still a lot of green mixed in. It's like the drought made half the tree's stressed so they turned early, but the other half that aren't stressed are going about like normal. Never seen it like that. I don’t know if it’s the “drought” (we really only had a very dry 3 week period) but I bet it was several days of record cold temps that got them going. To me it all happened at once, the valleys went at the same time as the higher elevations when normally it’s a gradual process from high to low. The maples went to straight fire red almost immediately (best reds I can remember) and the birches turned bright yellow. There is still a species of tree out there with light green leaves still, but it’s a minority species. We do often have two peaks almost, but the best variety of color was definitely when the maples and the birches flipped to bright red and yellow almost within 72 hours of that brutal cold shot for the time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, powderfreak said: I don’t know if it’s the “drought” (we really only had a very dry 3 week period) but I bet it was several days of record cold temps that got them going. To me it all happened at once, the valleys went at the same time as the higher elevations when normally it’s a gradual process from high to low. The maples went to straight fire red almost immediately (best reds I can remember) and the birches turned bright yellow. There is still a species of tree out there with light green leaves still, but it’s a minority species. We do often have two peaks almost, but the best variety of color was definitely when the maples and the birches flipped to bright red and yellow almost within 72 hours of that brutal cold shot for the time of year. Quaking aspen is usually the last to change, among trees that actually become colorful. There was enough around Fort Kent, often in abandoned farmland, to give us a 2nd look - yellow/orange/red in late Sept and all yellow about 10 days later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Past peak view from the office... uniform color mixed with bare trees. Taken today, but before the highest winds and rain/hail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Valley Snowman Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Still pretty garbage here and today's high winds not helping things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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