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Spring is arriving early in the Columbia River Gorge. Check out my geopup on one of our finds high up above the river today. It's looking like it's going to be a great year for the wild flowers and Geocaching this year.

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O what a beautiful picture! I'm still wading through a foot of snow. Although it did warm up a bit today; I broke through the ice over the creek and got a soaker. But Spring doesn't really arrive in Western New York State until May.

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Wouldn't you know it. A perfect day for hiding a cache and just as I'm headed out the door I get a call. Kids car broke down.

There went my afternoon.

 

But tomorrow is supposed to be almost as nice.

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Yup, we're enjoying it up here in the Vancouver BC area too. El Nino is said to be responsible for a very nice second half to February! I'm loving it. We have had unusually high snow for the last 4 or 5 years and this year I didn't even have to plastic the windows. I even swapped the hard top off my Jeep and put the soft top on yesterday!

 

Lovin' it!

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I went out for a little walk after PT a couple days ago, and enjoyed the sun in light pants and a t-shirt. I took this pic, of the only snow left (hint - Horse Lake Mountain is at 4,619 ft.). :)

 

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Ooooh - I am so jealous! We have had record breaking snow fall here in northern Virginia. Geocaching is going to be really tricky once all the snow melts and the mud appears! Your happy dog picture brightened my day!

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No fair :)

 

Been snowing here since thursday and not supposed to stop until tuesday. I have an eTrex Venture HC due to show up tomorrow and I know I'll be too impatient to wait to head out. Snow & mud incoming... womp

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As expected, it is snowing again, and we already got about 50 cm, or 20 inches of snow. Only -10 degrees though, compared to yesterdays -19 degrees.

 

This is how a local road looked like yesterday. Yep, that is ice.

 

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It's going to be rainy and cold here this week, but we had a beautiful spring-like weekend.

 

Hopeful signs that spring is coming soon:

 

1) Yesterday, I saw a mosquito in my back yard.

 

2) I've started getting "allergy alerts" in my email again.

 

3) Saturday morning, there was a whole flock of robins in my front yard.

 

4) I haven't stopped to count them, but for the past couple of days my Blackberry has been buzzing like crazy with new cache alerts. The local reviewer has been very busy publishing new caches.

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O what a beautiful picture! I'm still wading through a foot of snow. Although it did warm up a bit today; I broke through the ice over the creek and got a soaker. But Spring doesn't really arrive in Western New York State until May.

 

Agreed. The snow has been a bit thinner down here in Southern WNY, but it's still there when I get up everyday. And everytime it looks as if it may melt down just enough to get a quick cache in, more comes along and sweeps that away!

 

Arrrgghhhh, I hate being impatient!

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Sigh. More snow expected on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday .. apparently no more on Tuesday.

 

Spring needs to wait for a couple of weeks, at least.

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