Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you
Take me for a trip upon
your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it
That stuff is coming here soon, maybe by Sun.
Shannon will get to do her version of a snow angel.
Remember this guy?
http://coldfury.com/WRSA/WRSA-WP/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-02-at-2.39.56-PM.png
Oops.
His loss ranks with Gerard’s. Best of the best. Like American Digest, I’ve kept a collection of Woodpile Reports.
Remus dropped out pretty quick. If I had had the opportunity I would have saved his entire site like I did Gerard’s.
On a lark I type in Remus Woodpile Report and looky what showed up:
https://woodpilereport.lundissimo.info/html/index-523.htm
I though that site went dark long ago. Now’s your chance to grab it.
I thought the same thing – til I tried.
From what I can gather that site is an “archive” and it won’t download like Gerard’s did.
I have to download every single page one at a time and they are numbered 405 to 631. (226 pages total)
And I have to create “landing site” folder names manually to put the downloaded files into. So far I have downed 3 pages and it took about 1/2 an hour. This is a job….
There are only so many ski days in a man’s life. So get out there and do it!
The weird part is I can’t tell what kind of skis they are. The guy in back looks like he has a snowboard split in half the long way. That can’t be right. The other guy looks to have a free heel, so they are cross-country or alpine-touring skis. Lots of deep snow. It looks like snowboard tracks surrounding them, but they have ski poles and boarders don’t use poles. They didn’t keep their speed up through the flats, and now they have to slog through to the next downhill slope. All good fun.
As I recall, these are some snow-boarders dropping down off Loveland Pass (11,990 ft) on US6 in Colorado towards the Loveland ski area (base at 10,400ft) off I-70. Pretty much all downhill from the pass.
Oh. I’ve been there, done that. I am a telemark/cross-country skier, so I took the sedate ways down.
My most memorable moment there was watching some young men downhill skiers, and it’s always young men who do these kinds of things, dropping right down off Loveland Pass into the steep gullies, and setting off avalanches. Fortunately the gully is narrow and tree-lined on the edges, so the guys would just ski over to the trees before they got sucked into the ‘lanche. Young men, fearless, bold, indestructible. Until they are not. I too yearned to do bold and daring in the mountains (still do), but my tolerance for risk was/is not as strong as these guys.
Now after many years of this stuff, my bold and daring things are pretty sedate and pedestrian. It’s my understanding that a man’s peak heartbeat rate is 220 minus his age. I just can’t push it as I did 30 years ago. I can’t go as far and as fast, but I still try to be out on all-day adventures.
I shoveled snow off the driveway last night. That is about all the snow I want for a while.
It snowed for 24 hrs straight here, stopped about noon today. Looks like about 8″. Neighbor came by about an hour ago and plowed the drive with his Kubota. This is the most snow we’ve had in at least 10 years or more. Temps are in the low 20’s right now and supposed to go down to te single digits in a day or 2. Winter is here!
Here’s part of our front yard about 2 hours ago.