First Snow Of The Season

First Snow Of The Season
Oct 27th 2008
wolfmoonsleddog
Midwest
Location: Finland, MN
Time - 10:40am
Temperature: 34 degrees F
Conditions: Partly cloudy, snow flurries
Forecast: Windy with snow showers today, partly cloudy tomorrow. Highs in the 30s, lows in the 20s

It has indeed snowed! Not a lot but enough to make the ground (mostly) white. It started yesterday on our long day-camp run. As usual, we had the two main teams out - this time Blake had the girls and Jen and I had the boys.

It was warm at the beginning of the run but as we approached our camp, the temperatures started to drop and it began raining. Cold rain that soaked everything and made us all miserable at the camp. While I was helping chop up the beaver meat for the dogs (frozen beaver in the cold rain, oh fun!), snow started mixing in with the rain. Big white fluffy flakes that melted as soon as they hit anything. So it wasn’t much nicer than the rain although it looked prettier.

Nothing stuck until yesterday evening when Jen took out the two-year-olds. While we were harnessing the dogs, it started pouring snow (and it was windy) and most of it was staying on the ground where it hit. It continued off and on all night I guess. It was still snowing a little when I got up this morning and there have been a few more flurries throughout the morning.

Obviously there is not enough snow to use sleds but that seems a lot closer now that we’ve had our first snow.

Note: For some reason, I can no longer upload pictures to this blog. I am working on the problem but in the meantime, you can see the posts AND pictures on http://www.dx4solutions.com/dogandsled/DandSblog.htm

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Dave Lukosik on 27 Oct 2008 at 6:03 pm # edit this

Great to hear that the rain is finally turning to Snow! It will be in the low 30’s here in North Carolina tonight. Hope last Friday was the last time I have to cut the grass til next Spring! I drained the mover’s gas tank for good luck! Keep sending that cold air down here my fur kids love it! Happy trails, Dave