No memorial day camping in wyomng this year due to more snow

[doug hodder]

In the 70's it was global cooling....theearly 2000's global warming...now it's changed to "climate change". It's much more of an encompassing term or "catch all" phrase. It allows for just about anything in any sort of weather shift and still provides what I call the "eco-rads" a drum to beat. I'm also not sold on those little fluorescents that we now have to use. I go through about 3x as many of them as regular incandescents. I'm waiting for the environmental govt. imposed tax that will come on them for the clean up on them.

Up here, anybody that mentions global warming, could easily find themselves shot and dumped in a mine shaft. It's not playing well now.
Just my soap box for the day....I got some snow too. Doug

[nrody]

Southern California weather report. Mostly sunny with scattered clouds that should burn off by noon. Temp in the high 60 to mid to high 80's.

Too bad you have to tend the livestock Slow, You could come to So-Cal and help me with my tear.

I would help you with the the critters if I was there, thats for sure.

Global climate cooling warming is the biggest scam of this century. The huggers act like this kind of weather never happened before cause they only look back a hundred or so years. They are looking at a nano second in time and fail to look at the big picture of the earths history, what with ice ages and melts and everything in between.

Anyway stay warm (if you can).

Nancy (nrody)

[stumphugger]

It snowed on our pass yesterday. I stay home on the busy weekends. I live where people come to recreate. Why leave?

On the pinebeetles. You could spray and throw dollars away. Pine beetles are part of the life cycle of the lodgepole pine. Lodgepole is born in fire--needs heat to open the cones and release the seeds. It grows to about 8 inches, 80 years old and there's another 8 in there somewhere...

At that point, it slows down, the beetles sense this, and the attack begins.
The trees die, lightning hits, fire happens and the whole thing starts over.

You can create some safety areas to run to by logging the dead stuff but there has to be a market--mills. Am I right that there are few mills if any, in Wyoming? A while back I heard there was only one sawmill left in Colorado.

Fire suppression began about 80 to 90 years ago--about the maximum life span for lodgepole. It is time for it to die. That's my theory. Logging has been curtailed, so there is more to burn up. Lodgepole burns quite well, with nice flame lengths. I have sat in a meadow watching it burn up around us. The sight and sound is something else.

The other pine stands-AKA Ponderosa are perhaps overcrowded and need a good thinning? Crowding stresses the trees and weakens them, making them attractive to beetles.

Around here where we are not lodgepole country, the campgrounds are checked and any dangerous trees are cut down before the campground is opened for the year. The campgrounds have old growth west coast Douglas-fir in them and to see those come down is something else. A local guy who comes from a family of timber fallers is paid to go in a fall the complex problem trees. He is skilled and is an artist at getting a tree to go where it doesn't want to.

Excuse me, I have a passion for getting trees on the ground.

We may have some dry weather today. I think I'll head up to the traffic jam called a Flea Market.

[robertaw]

I would have to be on anti-depressants.

I lived most of my life in West Virgina where we often had some snow and ice in early April. By that time, I was usually feeling really anxious for some warmth and sunshine.

After living in Florida the past four years, I don't see how I could ever adjust to that again. Even though it gets cold here, and even freezes in the winter, we have sunshine every single day. When it rains, it rarely lasts for more than ten minutes, then the sun comes back out bright.

We do have a couple of months in the summer that are just too hot and humid to camp. The other ten months are fine camping weather.

[High Desert]

Yeah, we have snow here too. Not really sticking but with the 20mph wind behind it, it's not a pleasent day outside. Chains required on the hill yesterday. All those campers that were leaving town on Friday are hightailing it back today. Crap. Just crap.

[doug hodder]

Plan here was for next weekend to attend a Coleman thing up near Emigrant Gap as a filler since this weekend got cancelled....thing is...that's higher than me and it's been snowing/hailing all day here and the location is only 40mi. due north. They haven't started work on opening up the campground, trees down, flushing the water system etc....no refunds on the reservations yet however. I was so bored today...cleaned the house...but did have Indy and the 600 on....Doug

[doris s.]

Here in Maryland it is going to be 100 degrees for the next two days. We have heat advisory tomorrow and tuesday. This is so weird. To early in the season to be 100 degrees outside.

Doris

[goramsey]

Here is my campsite this memorial day.

Maybe you will feel better seeing a bit of blue sky. Or then, maybe not.

[Ratkity]

Here in Maryland it is going to be 100 degrees for the next two days. We have heat advisory tomorrow and tuesday. This is so weird. To early in the season to be 100 degrees outside.

Doris

*sobs* I know!! We were rwobbed of Spring, rwobbed I say!!

Hugs,
Ratkity

[eaglesdare]

i agree ratkity! i think this is the first memorial day weekend we haven't gone somewhere. at least not in the last 6 yrs.

[hotrod]

hey i was in riverton sunday..it was actually pretty nice. was in west yellowstone, lots of snow there, still snowmobiling up top!