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Lenticular cloud over Grizzly Peak
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Grizzly Peak Sunrise
Today’s photo is from this morning. The whole town was in shadow, but Grizzly Peak was glowing.
Back to school
10-photo photomerge of Southern Oregon University during winter break
Winter term on the SOU campus begins today.
The building on the left is Computing Services. On the far right is the Hannon Library. Central Hall is also partially visible behind the trees.
For best results (as always), click on the image, and view it on a large monitor.
White Christmas?
@AshlandSprings @mtashland
We will start Christmas with 80+ degree temps in Sayulita, Mexico (where we are now). By the end of the day we’ll be back in Ashland where the temperature will likely be in the 20s, and snow may be on the ground. Today’s photo is from last week just after the prior weekend’s snowfall began to melt at the lower elevations.
West Rim Drive in winter
Snowshoeing on Crater Lake’s West Rim Drive
Although Crater Lake’s snow pack is less than 30% of normal for this time of year, it is one of the few places in Southern Oregon with any snow. After bailing on our attempt to snowshoe near the Upper Rogue River due to lack of snow, we did enjoy a walk from the Rim Village to Discovery Point in 60 degree temperatures. Snowshoes weren’t absolutely necessary, but they were useful at times.
Upper Rogue River in winter
Yesterday we went in search of Boundary Springs. We couldn’t find the trailhead (or maybe we did and just didn’t know it). In any event, we parked at the Mazama Viewpoint off Highway 230 as we could see no other place to park near the Mile 19 marker, which is where we read the trail is supposed to start. The sign at Mazama Viewpoint said Upper Rogue River Trail (I think). There was no internet from there, but my GPS worked fine. It looked like we could still do the Boundary Springs Trail if we could find it.
Even though there should have been tons of snow in the area, the snow was fairly minimal–especially for this time of year–so we didn’t bother to put our snowshoes on. We ended up walking on the trail for several miles before realizing we were no longer going toward Boundary Springs. At that point we turned around, walked back to our car, drove to Crater Lake, and snowshoed there.
I want to try the Boundary Springs Trail again. I saw this sign, but couldn’t read it. Apparently this is where we should have turned to get to Boundary Springs.
Snowy SOU
Southern Oregon University in the snow (early December 2013)
Ashland received a large amount of rain this past week, but with temperatures in the 50s, not even Grizzly Peak has snow on it.
Strange winter scene on Grizzly Peak
View from Grizzly Peak during minimal snow winter
I have yet to break out my snow shoes this winter. Last weekend we hiked to the top of Grizzly Peak where I took this photo from. Last year at this time this was the scene miles below the location of today’s photo.
This year we were able to drive all the way to the parking lot which is pretty much unheard of in January or February. From there the trail usually has several feet of snow on it in winter as it is in the shade and doesn’t melt until May or so. Not this year.
Back to school day
SOU snow
No, the winter without precipitation hasn’t changed its course. Instead, my random, desktop image of the day is from the archives. This photo comes from November of 2010. We normally get about 3″ of wet stuff in November. There was none this past November. We normally get an average of about 3″ of snow and another 3″ of rain in January. Not so this year.
Cold Blue Mountain
Cold Blue Mountain
Ashland, Oregon
Cold Blue Mountain, a band from Chico, California, is scheduled to play at Club 66 next Friday night (1/17/14). Today’s photo is of Ashland’s own cold blue mountains from last month’s snow storm.