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Re: My Grizzlies Are Gone!

Postby QMaze » Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:24 pm

And when your snow melts, no problem.

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Postby hemingray » Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:36 pm

I imagine once we get up there on wheels, a chain saw will be a good thing to have along!
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Re: My Grizzlies Are Gone!

Postby Ken » Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:51 pm

hemingray wrote:I imagine once we get up there on wheels, a chain saw will be a good thing to have along!
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Re: My Grizzlies Are Gone!

Postby GrizzlyGuy » Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:58 pm

Mr. Green wrote:
GrizzlyGuy wrote: Dude, seriously, stay the fark away from up here until Sunday or maybe tomorrow if we get lucky.

only made it to kingvale before getting turned around on Fri, the bank was nice enough to give me tell monday... :roll: like anyone else can do it faster.



Ill go with july 6 just after the 4th weekend :lol:
LOL, July 6th should be fine. Tomorrow might be OK if the flippin' winds calm down. We're getting gusts in the 50-60 mph range and the town gave up on trying to clear our road since the snow just drifts back in. Hopefully they will make it up here tomorrow.
Excellent! If only I had a bigger garage. No wait, I'd stil have to shovel through about 7' of snow just to get the garage door open. :cry:
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Seen a few avalances, there is one about 1.5 miles up rattlesnake road that came down the front side of signal and wiped out some trees.
Also heard the UP rotary snow throw is stuck too, and there still digging to get to the spreader that is buried near cisco. I need to find out if its one that I built this year or last. Might have some repair work to do on it once they get it out.
Yup, this latest batch of "snow" was pure cement. I fired up the blower this morning and it wouldn't blow. As soon as I'd go forward into the "snow" it would glob up around the augers. Clean augers, try again, same thing. Absolutely worthless. It now has about 2" of solid ice all over it due to the blowing snow. As soon as it hits something it freezes solid. I'm SHOCKED that my power hasn't gone out. Heavy snow on top of light snow is perfect avalanche conditions.

The wind here makes these mini snow tornados which are no fun at all. I was out with the blower, one hit and wrapped around me and I could barely breathe. The snow was coming UP into my face. This storm really, really sucks. I'm praying for sunshine and no wind tomorrow. :evil:
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Re: My Grizzlies Are Gone!

Postby hemingray » Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:22 pm

The front drifted through a couple of hours ago, adding some rain to the otherwise mostly cloudy day here. I imagine your weather should settle down and if the forecast is true for clear and warmer by midweek, you might finally have some relief up there. Do you have an HF radio that works up there? 10 meters has been hot! Maybe some radiation would melt your snow down! ;-)
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Postby GrizzlyGuy » Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:18 am

hemingray wrote:Do you have an HF radio that works up there? 10 meters has been hot! Maybe some radiation would melt your snow down! ;-)
Excellent! I have 3 radios that work on 10m, but no antenna up. My "stealth" wire antennas don't survive the storms so I didn't bother re-stringing it this year. I can always erect the Buddipole in an emergency.

I woke up today and the wind had finally calmed down. The sun came up and there are partially cloudy skies. WoooHooo! It would be a flippin' awesome ski day IF I could get out to the resorts but I can't. :cry:

During the storm I had to give up on the front door and deck when the winds were gusting to 50-60 mph and blowing snow from the unplowed driveway back into whatever I cleared. Here is what the front door looked like this morning after I opened it and used my Snow Claw backcountry shovel to toss back some of the caving-in snow:

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The snow was about 3 feet deep right at the door, and 4-5 feet deep once you get about a foot past the door, then it continues at that depth all the way to the driveway.
It is the perfect consistency for making igloos or snow shelters. You can carve blocks with the real snow shovel and lift them out intact. Good for that, not so good for general shoveling since the snow is heavier/denser than powder. After about 30-45 minutes of climbing around in it and shoveling (with the real shovel), we at least have a "beachhead" for taking on the rest:

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My neighbor called while I was shoveling and said that the road is completely impassable. He needs to get his kids to school so he is snowboarding with them down to the major street below the ski resort (already plowed) then will hike back up. I'm glad I'm not him, that uphill hike will suck. Truckee has real-time tracking of snow plow locations on the Internet (must be using SPOT-like devices on the plows) and we can see that none have started heading our way yet. Hopefully they will make it up later today. It would be nice to be able to get out of the house and replenish supplies before the next storm this coming weekend.
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Re: My Grizzlies Are Gone!

Postby GrizzlyGuy » Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:22 am

Aw crap, just got this in E-mail from our driveway plow guy. The report is from someone who lives WAY down the hill from us:
This just in from a customer in the area of 13500 Skislope: "I went down to the pool at 5:45 a.m. and the corner is very difficult to negotiate. In fact I put on all 4 chains to get home. There are two cars stuck (from last night) just up the hill from me which I believe makes Skislope impassable above my house, as of this moment."

This makes Skislope impassable to all but 2 of my customers.

Could be another long day of waiting....
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Postby GrizzlyGuy » Mon Mar 28, 2011 1:33 pm

The clouds broke up and it is a perfect Bluebird day up here in the Sierras. No wind, warm sun and I was actually doing some shirtless shoveling! This should give people an idea of how much snow we have:

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The road is now just a snow gulch, this is looking up the hill from my house:

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Looking down the road from my house, my buried driveway is to the right:

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My garage is on the right and the driveway is all that uneven snow out ahead of it:

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One of our neighbors cruised up the road on snowshoes:

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Although the road was closed, guess who showed up? You got it, the HEROIC FED-EX GUY! He slogged up our road from way down below the ski resort, without snowshoes, just to deliver this little envelope to me (I obviously haven't finished shoveling the front deck): =D> =D>

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Off he goes for his l-o-n-g hike back down to his truck. Dang, he should have brought a snowboard: #-o

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I have part of our back deck cleared:

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But the half on the other side of Mt. Grizzly: not so good (the guest bedroom's sliding glass door is near that light and completely buried):

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The town plow and snowblower still hasn't shown up, but we can see them on live tracking slowly making their way up from each end of our road. They should be here within a few hours if they don't run into any stranded cars. :)
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Re: My Grizzlies Are Gone!

Postby hemingray » Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:45 pm

Holy moley.

I was thinking of taking a day off to run over your way and back, just to see the snow depths over the summit. Love the picture of the transformer.
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Postby GrizzlyGuy » Mon Mar 28, 2011 4:34 pm

You should do it Dave, this is some historic snow!

Hallelujah, I can hear the town's big blower up the hill and coming our way. Hopefully queue the driveway guy after that. He will be having some fun (not) here is the "driveway" of my neighbor across the street:

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For comparison, this is the picture from up the thread that shows what it looked like on Tuesday:

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Postby GrizzlyGuy » Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:30 pm

The big blower is here, stand back, those snow chunks can kill you!

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Re: My Grizzlies Are Gone!

Postby ATV'er » Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:45 pm

That is insane the amount of snow that is up there. It almost reminds me of those old pictures in the bar at the Rainbow Lodge.
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Re: My Grizzlies Are Gone!

Postby hemingray » Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:38 pm

National Weather Service Sacramento has some pictures of the Soda Springs/Serene Lakes/Blue Canyon areas on their Facebook page:
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Re: My Grizzlies Are Gone!

Postby GrizzlyGuy » Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:38 pm

ATV'er wrote:That is insane the amount of snow that is up there. It almost reminds me of those old pictures in the bar at the Rainbow Lodge.
I haven't seen those, but do they look like this?:

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That's our road up on the top of the ridge today after one pass by the town's big blower (easy to see why they usually make two passes). Our driveway guy took it from his little blower. I flippin' hate driving the Hummer down the hill after only one pass, there is no way that me and another car would be able to get by each other on the luge track that we call our street.

Oh well, life is good now. The bad ole storm has finally gone away so we fired up the BBQ. Salmon and mango salsa for dinner. :)

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Re: My Grizzlies Are Gone!

Postby EigerMike » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:00 pm

just awesome GG!!! =D> i was going to ask about your fed ex driver but no need to now!
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