Cold weather coming this week, get those hose bibs covered...

I take freezing rain very seriously. Back in my truck mechanic days in Missouri, I would have to go on service calls to the rest areas, and truck stops through all the freezing rain, crawl underneath all those brake air chambers and heat em up, bang on em, whatever I had to do to unlock those things after being froze up or else those trucks are not going anywhere. I still remember the gratifying feeling of seeing all 8 tires rip out of the ice and roll away. I also remember how dirty, filthy, cold, wet I would get LOL. When I would get back to the shop a hot cup of coffee was wonderful. Edit: I DID have some killer Carhart insulated coveralls that actually kept me warm. So it wasnt oh poor me.

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The warmup is coming. 😉
SF

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This reminded me of back in the day...
I had done some vertical glacier ice "bouldering" on the lower Nisqually *icefall* glacier and the lower Kautz ice *cliff* chute on a summit climb but never water ice. There are climbers that find this unusual cold-cold weather is awesome for the perfect conditions to hastily take vacation-call in sick to visit local areas like Snoqualmie Pass, Tatoosh Ridge just south from Paradise, etc... Imagine being out in this weather doing this at Snoqualmie Pass
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Not me!

*looking at photos brushed away some memory cobwebs*
I've done this. It's fuckin' stoopid! But great when you reach the top still alive!!
 
mark the link didn't work but is this it?

That's a different one, the Behrends chute, which ends in a neighborhood. It was a small slide that didn't reach the houses, just dusted the hell out of everyone. The one I posted was the snowslide creek chute (mt Roberts), which was initiated by control efforts and covered the road (closed).
 
Hey thermometer buddy. Do you trust the humidity reading on yours? Mine is always stuck 10-15% outside, yours looks like it's stuck on the upper end.
Mine varies. At the time the reading was taken , it was foggy. Also, thermometer is about 20 feet from a large pond that did not freeze over. Look at my last reading, humidity was lower.
 
Well the snow started back up here, got an advisory up again.
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