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<\/a>Snow on salal among tall Douglas firs<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Rock outcropping halfway up<\/p><\/div>\n
Near the summit we found a forest of trees all bent at the bottom.\u00a0 It appears that deep snow, or perhaps a landslide, flattened them when they were small, and they reoriented to grow upward.<\/p>\n
Winter above, spring below. Looking east over the Willamette Valley.<\/p><\/div>\n Southwest toward the ocean amid shifting wisps of cloud and a sun halo.<\/p><\/div>\n The weather report from the summit said 27 degrees and no wind, but since it is almost never wind-free up there I guessed that the anemometer must be iced up.\u00a0 Indeed it was.\u00a0 Everything near the summit – antennas, fence, branches, blades of grass, even rocks, had 2″ of snow on the windward side, west-northwest by the look of it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Iced-up anemometer<\/p><\/div>\n Elizabeth on top, looking south<\/p><\/div>\n Someone built this snow hut along the trail<\/p><\/div>\n We looped back by a different trail, passing a few other hikers.\u00a0 About six miles in total.\u00a0 This was the last day of the annual contra dance weekend, and we had friends staying with us from Portland who came to dance.\u00a0 We aren’t hardcore enough to dance all weekend, but we did have a great time at the open evening dance, with bands Wild Hair (from Portland) and Perpetual E-Motion (all the way from Maine).\u00a0 PEM was just two guys with an electric fiddle, electric guitar, didgeridoo, footpad percussion, and a lot of loop pedals.\u00a0 They made a full, energetic sound that was a joy to dance to.<\/p>\n Onion seeds are germinating in my room – when they sprout they will go in the greenhouse to grow until late April when they will go in the ground.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I try to get up Marys Peak at least once a month.\u00a0 The weather there is truly unique, perhaps typical of mountaintops elsewhere.\u00a0 The mountain sticks up high enough into the windy layers of the atmosphere that weather conditions are … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>