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Yes thank you. I was expecting a big write up in the local news but it was relegated to the back. No obvious damage.Gee - I hope all was well when you woke properly and checked Doug. It must be a worry at times living in these zones.
Just catching up with your news. Sentient beings, tomatoes and blueberries? We are all part of ecosystems... we know how humans feel, and it is good to see that every cloud has a silver lining in your sharing of produce. There is something here in Ireland, Food cloud, I think, that organises redistribution of excess foodstuffs from supermarkets to food banks and kitchens, and that is a consolation in times of difficulties...Yes thank you. I was expecting a big write up in the local news but it was relegated to the back. No obvious damage.
ANZ as a whole gets lots of earthquakes but they are rarer around Tamiki Makaurau Auckland. I have also lived in Wellington as @VNwalking alluded to, earthquakes are much more common there.
It is still raining here, although lightly at the moment and my garden is waterlogged and I have been forced to pick my tomatoes so that they don't burst with all the water they are getting. I am giving them away to my neighbours and the local Salvation Army food bank. My courgettes are definitely not liking all this water. About the only thing that is loving it is my Blueberries and I need to harvest them.
Thanks for the well wishes all round and I hope that everyone else is also well.
A report in the NYT, although in fahrenheit which takes me a while to relate to centigrade, tells me you need to cover your ears if you walk anywhere these days. Be safe, be careful out there, words of the Captain, Hill Street Blues of yore.It's been a warm winter here in the Boston area. Only about a third of typical snowfall and each snow disappears quickly. Our river is usually frozen bank to bank for all of January but there has been hardly any ice showing at all. We have flower buds aching to open up a month early.
Things changed today.
On our walk today there wasn't anybody out. We went for our most often done walk even though it was cold and Peg HATES the cold. How cold was it? Air temperature of 16⁰ F and a wind chill of -1⁰ F (-9 and -18 C). Around 4:OO AM we expect -9 and -30 F (-23 and -34 C).
But, for fun, remember me reporting on my hike up Mt. Washington last year? It's not very high but it has extreme weather conditions. At 6:20 this evening the summit temperature was -45 F / -42 C and the wind chill was -105 F / -76 C. And things are getting worse. Wind gusts of twice hurricane speed are expected tonight.
Be careful out there my fellow Yankees.
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Loved that show especially that scene.A report in the NYT, although in fahrenheit which takes me a while to relate to centigrade, tells me you need to cover your ears if you walk anywhere these days. Be safe, be careful out there, words of the Captain, Hill Street Blues of yore.
A Bostonian native? I am saying hello although I now live in Europe.It's been a warm winter here in the Boston area. Only about a third of typical snowfall and each snow disappears quickly. Our river is usually frozen bank to bank for all of January but there has been hardly any ice showing at all. We have flower buds aching to open up a month early.
Things changed today.
On our walk today there wasn't anybody out. We went for our most often done walk even though it was cold and Peg HATES the cold. How cold was it? Air temperature of 16⁰ F and a wind chill of -1⁰ F (-9 and -18 C). Around 4:OO AM we expect -9 and -30 F (-23 and -34 C).
But, for fun, remember me reporting on my hike up Mt. Washington last year? It's not very high but it has extreme weather conditions. At 6:20 this evening the summit temperature was -45 F / -42 C and the wind chill was -105 F / -76 C. And things are getting worse. Wind gusts of twice hurricane speed are expected tonight.
Be careful out there my fellow Yankees.
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ANZ as a whole gets lots of earthquakes but they are rarer around Tamiki Makaurau Auckland
Our river is usually frozen bank to bank for all of January but there has been hardly any ice showing at all.
The snow capped mountains are in background about two hours drive from Marina Del Rey where I walked today.
A Bostonian native?
And the foties?Walked a 15 mile round trip through the West End of Glasgow, stopping halfway for a nice Indian meal and refreshments and a further large red 4 miles from home. Lovely.
In this context it helps to know that -40°C=-40°F. You Yankees take care of yourselves, please!report in the NYT, although in fahrenheit which takes me a while to relate to centigrade
I have only known -23C when visiting Chicago years ago and Lake Michigan froze..amazing view from the 27th floor of the hotel. I can’t imagine -40.In this context it helps to know that -40°C=-40°F. You Yankees take care of yourselves, please!
Come time for our [Sunday] walk we should have the same conditions as yesterday.
9k. loop at Alt-Hoeselt with my small hikinggroup. One of them has a dog and he had the time of his life. Very very muddy for some parts.
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Sabs showed a map for her last post so I'm going to do the same. Here's a portion of today's walk.
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Click this after viewing map.I walked like a drunk man while recording a GPS track to get something to experiment with editing tracks.
Wow, it is -15C (4F) here in Wyoming and snowing today!14 C today. Some pubs already had their terraces available.
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View attachment 141887View attachment 141888View attachment 141889View attachment 141890I haven’t walked much this winter. I’m not fond of winter weather and often it is too cold, too wet, too windy, haha. Another reason is that I have been waiting for a pacemaker to help my not so good heart. Now the pacemaker is in its place and it feels safer to be walking. And today the weather was beautifu!
Dani7,
Hello @dugavski. What fine scenery! I have done a quick google search on Camino KRK and found this site: https://caminocroatia.com/ I will add it to my wish list. Would you care to tell us a little about your experience - for example, how difficult was the trail, where to sleep, finding water and food etc?I walked a part of Camino on island Krk in Croatia a week ago.. sunny days, beautiful scenery!
Seeing this I regret visiting Ontario (if I got lovingkindnesse's comment right) only during summer! I love snow.Today
It has been a very long time I visited that beautiful part of the world and I did not know there was a Camino!I walked a part of Camino on island Krk in Croatia a week ago.. sunny days, beautiful scenery!
I forgot to answer to some specific questions... the trail is not difficult from what I know so far.Hello @dugavski. What fine scenery! I have done a quick google search on Camino KRK and found this site: https://caminocroatia.com/ I will add it to my wish list. Would you care to tell us a little about your experience - for example, how difficult was the trail, where to sleep, finding water and food etc?
Cheers
Lovingkindness
ps I have just found a series of 6 youtube videos, one for each stage of Camino KRK. Here they are:
That's a huge cairn
Which birds are they?A pleasant surprise on my urban trek this morning: check top of centre tree.
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Gorgeous!
@nycwalking- Along where all the apartments are?
They’re bald eagles, and likely looking for a place to nest as it’s that time of the year. It’s always exciting to see them, particularly in the city. Which reminds me to see if anything has been written about this pair as it’s likely someone has been following their movements.Which birds are they?
Thank youI'm sorry Peter, I have to respond here because I don't know any other way of giving your post both a like and a that's sad.
I also remember a childhood where the bald eagle was doomed. I never thought I would see one except in a photo book about animals.Two weeks ago on this thread I posted a picture of a bald eagle perched in a neighbor's tree. We've seen them occasionally flying along the river but we're really excited now. Yesterday from our kitchen window I saw a pair of them fly by. Later, over a period of about a half an hour, we could see them circling around and once in awhile land in a tall pine across the river. This morning we've seen them over a few hours heading in and out of the same place. Using binoculars I think I can see a nest and a white head when the boughs blow the right way.
Fifty years ago I took a wildlife management course for a college elective and we had to write a paper on an endangered animal. Bald eagles were on the list. They have been doing alright since and I'm so happy to have some as neighbors.
Isn't nature so healing, on the one hand? And the birds - they have no need of logos, they are so smart in their identification ruses!All was quiet along the 10km loop of my home patch. Only passed one other walker! A lull before this area bursts into spring life. There are signs! Still lots of debris along the tidal paths from winter storms. I couldn't get through a couple of weeks ago but today was happy to find that the mystery builder had re-built their usual board and log bridge. Must be the same person who always makes sure there is a log barrier protecting a little patch of daffodils in the middle of a path.
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Cold, but beautiful!I live 20 minutes outside Oslo, Norway. This is what it looks like on a good day during winter. Nice surroundings for when I prepare myself for my next Camino (Primitivo in April23.)
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About -10 Celcius if I remember correctly. No problemCold, but beautiful!
Greetings from your neighbour country! Are you also getting new snow mid of next week? Over here in the far North of Sweden it is still -17°C today and coming week might be heavy with snowI live 20 minutes outside Oslo, Norway. This is what it looks like on a good day during winter. Nice surroundings for when I prepare myself for my next Camino (Primitivo in April23.)
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TjenareGreetings from your neighbour country! Are you also getting new snow mid of next week? Over here in the far North of Sweden it is still -17°C today and coming week might be heavy with snow
No need here either. We still have a layer of roundabout 60 cm of old snow. However, it has not been snowing for weeks so it would be nice to get a new layer to cover all the dog pee around the houseTjenare
We are getting a lot of snow on Monday, don´t really need it now..... -14 here tomorrow morning, but the sun warms up the air during the day.
Narvik? That reminds me of traveling there in the 70s and eating shrimp galore from the harbor market…for 5 days because it was too expensive for us to go into a restaurant. We were students at the time…A little 6k stroll in Narvik yesterday … I must admit the last shot was taken from the train
Norway is still not a cheap place to eat outNarvik? That reminds me of traveling there in the 70s and eating shrimp galore from the harbor market…for 5 days because it was too expensive for us to go into a restaurant. We were students at the time…
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