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Entries Tagged ‘snow’

Bye Bye, Pear Tree

It’s been kind of a funny winter so far.  The snow storms have been big and they’ve been pretty frequent, but they keep missing us.  It seems like every one will come across the South, dumping a bunch of snow on states that never get it, hit the ocean, turn north, pick up more moisture, [...]

Hitting the Slopes

Seeing as we’ve had all this snow this winter, we might as well put it to good use, right?  Since we’re not particularly far north or up in huge mountains like the resorts in Vermont or the Rockies, conditions at ski resorts in the Mid-Atlantic (in my experience, at least), typically consist of packed, machine-made [...]

More Snow?!

This is turning out to be quite the winter!  We got another two huge snowstorms this week, making this the snowiest winter on record for the area.  Last weekend was the really big one, two to three feet of snow fell on the Mid-Atlantic states on Friday and Saturday.  I measured about 28″ here, which [...]

SNOW!!!

A huge snow storm made its way up the East Coast this weekend, dumping between one and two feet of snow pretty much everywhere it went.  I measured 16-19″ in our back yard.  It was a pretty awesome storm, it started snowing Friday night and didn’t let up until sometime Sunday morning.  Naturally, we took [...]

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Skis

Shelley and I hit the slopes last weekend at Wisp Resort, out in western Maryland, along with my coworker Pete.  None of us had been to Wisp before, but we decided that being only three hours away, it was close enough to be a nice weekend destination, and still far enough into the mountains to [...]